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Poets who know it
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Length:
49 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
To celebrate National Poetry Month, we’re featuring some of our favorite American practitioners. Tracy K. Smith shares some of her surprising sources of poetic inspiration: David Bowie and the Hubble Space Telescope. And she chooses the winners to our listener poetry competition. Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass” gets the American Icons treatment. And Kurt Andersen talks to award-winning poet and “Sexiest Man Alive” Terrance Hayes about his 2015 book, “How to Be Drawn.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Apr 5, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Remembering Ultra-American Musician Leon Russell: Leon Russell passed away last week — he was 74. During the 1970s, he forged a musical career unlike almost anyone else’s before or since: an ultra-American mix of country, blues, gospel, and rock n’ roll, collaborating with musicians from all those genre by Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen