Marianne Moore was out there.  Another poet who's father has a psychotic break.  Another poet who was writing, and breathing and living and dying in times before our times. Also: She sums up what I've been trying to say in her poem "Poetry" 


What Are Poems

Marianne Moore

Djuna Barnes

John Berryman

What's this? No scandal? A good man, writing good things who ends up in Greece (not exiled, just alone, but not alone at all) It's Robert Lax on What are Poems!&nbsp;

Robert Lax

He is on the pulse of Late-60's New York City. &nbsp;A friend of all artist -- Frank O'Hara. &nbsp;I discuss a harrowing tale of hammers I heard second hand.&nbsp;

Frank O'Hara

Two men choke on grapes in this episode.&nbsp;

The Star-Spangled Banner

NPR contributor, poet, and philosopher Baxter Black's poems are read. &nbsp;I regret making fun of Ronald Reagan in a twist of fate I never saw coming.&nbsp;

Baxter Black

It's everyone in England's biggest crush: Rupert Brooke. &nbsp;

Rupert Brooke

Abraham Lincoln may or may not have written a poem about suicide in 1838. &nbsp;A reading, an investigation, thoughts of Lizzie McGuire. &nbsp;

Abraham Lincoln

The sister of William Wordsworth gets some thoughts. &nbsp;My buddy Phil reads a poem at around 4 AM in my home. &nbsp;My buddy Noah says "May I?" A little taste of friendship and the friends we keep on WHAT ARE POEMS.&nbsp;

Dorothy Wordsworth

Number 50! and it's Gerda Mayer (refugee, poet) OPERATION KINDERTRANSPORT. &nbsp;What happened in Jim Thorpe?&nbsp;

Gerda Mayer

Sztuka

Sztuki Sceniczne

A man living inside his own head searches for the meaning of poetry while reading works by real poets and writing poems himself.

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