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Detail of plaid shirt. Mourners picket after the Triangle Fire (1911). Courtesy of the Kheel Center, Cornell University. Poetry in America is a TV series and educational initiative that brings poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world. Created by Elisa New, Poetry in America draws students of all ages into conversations about poetry.
Richard Blanco’s poem “Looking for The Gulf Motel” transports readers to 1970s Florida, recalling a Cuban-American family’s vacations on the sparkling sands of Marco Island. Blanco and international superstar Gloria Estefan join Elisa New and a chorus of Cuban American adults in Miami and middle school students in New York City to ...
About Season 2. In April 2020, Poetry in America returned for its second season during National Poetry Month. Expanding the scope of the first season, the eight episodes in Season Two explore everything from the universal burdens of Elizabeth Bishop’s “One Art” to William Carlos William’s mischievous “This Is Just to Say,” tracking ...
This course draws from the acclaimed Poetry in America PBS series. Beginning with the poetry of the American Civil War and the series of major events and social movements that followed it, we read such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, and Emma Lazarus, and examine the language of patriotism ...
Poetry in America: From the Mayflower through Emerson This course covers American poetry in cultural context through the year 1850. Beginning with Puritan poets who lived and wrote in early New England, the second part of the course explores the poetry written directly before and after the creation of the American Republic.
Modernism. This free, not-for-credit online course, the sixth installment in the multi-part HarvardX Poetry in America series, explores a diverse array of American Modernist poets and poems. While “Modernism” is notoriously difficult to define, the movement spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and the poetry of this period ...
Poetry in America for HarvardX is a series of free, not-for-credit open online courses that survey nearly 400 years of American poetry. About Poetry In America Poetry in America is a multiplatform initiative that brings poetry into literature classrooms and living rooms around the world.
