Regular readers of World Class Poetry Blog know I’m an advocate of using the latest technology to create and deliver poetry to the audience. A joint project between the Poetry Foundation and film students at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee called Poetry Everywhere and funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts has some of today’s top poets reading their own work on film. The renditions are mostly the poets standing a podium or sitting and reading or reciting their poems. But the effort is a high quality delivery of poetry that I believe will stand the test of time.
Some of the poets represented on video include:
- Lucille Clifton
- Charles Simic
- Sharon Olds
- Billy Collins
- Adrienne Rich
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Stanley Kunitz
- Coleman Barks
- Marie Howe
- and Robert Hass
Special appearances have also been arranged by Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, and W.B. Yeats.
I strongly encourage you to take a look at these videos, produced by WGBH Boston and David Grubin Productions for PBS. You can find them at the PBS website. Take your time. Enjoy.
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