‘[Somewhere in Los Angeles] This Poem Is Needed’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Poetry provides the constant opportunity to take a situation and cast it in a different light.
‘Suicide Parade’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Let’s take a closer look at the most feared weapon used by the US in the Korean War.
‘What Resembles The Grave But Isn’t’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. A poem about survival from Kansas City-based poet and essayist Anne Boyer.
‘General James Bethune and John Bethune Introduce Blind Tom’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. Tyehimba Jess has just won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry!
‘Spring Breaks’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company One of the strengths of poetry is that it’s a different kind of language…it can cut directly to meaning making and, yes to emotional truths.
‘And Still I Speak of It’
Co-curated with Bill Moyers & Company. April is National Poetry Month, and we’re celebrating by featuring “civic” poetry from new and familiar voices. All month, we’ll be posting poems and discussing what it means to be
Political Poetry for Our Times
Co-published with Bill Moyers & Company. We shouldn’t give up on poetry, if only because we need a different public language to describe our country.