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Philip Levine and Kristen Dupard Discuss "What Work Is"
National Poet Laureate Philip Levine reads and discusses his poems
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Learn more about Levine: http://to.pbs.org/qtGW57 Philip Levine, who was named the Library of Congress' 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012, reads some of his work.
Philip Levine, whose poetry has honored the working man for almost half a century, gives his inaugural reading as the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the Laureate's appointment on Aug. 10. Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently "News of the World" (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review describes as "characteristically wise." Levine won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," the National Book Award in 1991 for "What Work Is" and in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old," the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and "7 Years From Somewhere," and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Names of the Lost." ...
Philip Levine's collection of poetry, The Simple Truth, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Publishers Weekly praised The Simple Truth by noting "the 'simplicity' of his language, offering an ease of approach to us, seems to give truth (and poetry) to everyone." Levine's poetry is grounded in the harsh reality of contemporary life. He once described his poetry as an attempt to create "a voice for the voiceless." His acclaimed early volumes include Not This Pig (1968), They Feed They Lion (1972), Ashes (1979), which received the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979) which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He also has written The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), nine essays which focus on a particular per...
The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.
Recorded on June 4th, 2013 at the New York Public Library For more events by LIVE from the NYPL visit: http://www.nypl.org/events/live-nypl Watch the full 90-minute recording here: goo.gl/ho4oUB To coincide with The New York Public Library's exhibition “Back Tomorrow: Federico Garcia Lorca / Poet in New York,” this special installment of LIVE from the NYPL celebrates Lorca's life and legacy with performances and readings. Participants include John Giorno, Will Keen and Maria Fernandez Ache, Philip Levine, Christopher Maurer, Paul Muldoon, Patti Smith, and Tracy K. Smith. Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is arguably one of the poet’s most important works, and a powerful testament to New York City as seen through the eye...
Philip Levine in conversation with Naomi Jaffa at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2009. In this excerpt from their discussion, Levine talks about being taught first by Robert Lowell and then by John Berryman at the University of Iowa, where his classmates included Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass and Henri Coulette. Levine says a lot more about having Berryman and Yvor Winters as mentors in his memoir THE BREAD OF TIME (1994/2002). His poetry is published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in STRANGER TO NOTHING: SELECTED POEMS: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247371 This discussion was organised by the Poetry Trust as part of the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival: http://www.thepoetrytrust.org
The Great Hall, Cooper Union. September 24, 2015. With Ann Close, Toi Derricotte, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunkayaa, Mari L'Esperance, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Jane Mead, Tomás Q. Morín, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, David St. John, and Gerald Stern. Co-sponsored with the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Cooper Union, the Library of Congress, the NYU Creative Writing Program, Penguin Random House, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House, Queens College, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
Philip Levine, the former Poet Laureate of the United States, is 84 years old. Kristen Dupard, the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion, just graduated high school. Though decades apart in age and miles apart in geography---she's from Ridgeland, Mississippi; he's from Detroit---they share something so rare that it defies classification. In this video, the two sat down to discuss his poem, "What Work Is."
National Poet Laureate Philip Levine, in a discussion taped in 1998, reads his work and discusses his writing on "The Writing Life," a writer to writer talk show produced by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. He reads "Escape" "M. Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942," and "The Poem of Chalk." Named National Poet Laureate in 2011, Levine is interviewed by poet and editor Elizabeth Spires. For more information about "The Writing Life" and HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), visit www.hocopolitso.org.
The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.
Learn more about Levine: http://to.pbs.org/qtGW57 Philip Levine, who was named the Library of Congress' 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2011-2012, reads some of his work.
Philip Levine, whose poetry has honored the working man for almost half a century, gives his inaugural reading as the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the Laureate's appointment on Aug. 10. Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently "News of the World" (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review describes as "characteristically wise." Levine won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," the National Book Award in 1991 for "What Work Is" and in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old," the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and "7 Years From Somewhere," and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Names of the Lost." ...
Philip Levine's collection of poetry, The Simple Truth, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Publishers Weekly praised The Simple Truth by noting "the 'simplicity' of his language, offering an ease of approach to us, seems to give truth (and poetry) to everyone." Levine's poetry is grounded in the harsh reality of contemporary life. He once described his poetry as an attempt to create "a voice for the voiceless." His acclaimed early volumes include Not This Pig (1968), They Feed They Lion (1972), Ashes (1979), which received the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979) which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He also has written The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), nine essays which focus on a particular per...
The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.
Recorded on June 4th, 2013 at the New York Public Library For more events by LIVE from the NYPL visit: http://www.nypl.org/events/live-nypl Watch the full 90-minute recording here: goo.gl/ho4oUB To coincide with The New York Public Library's exhibition “Back Tomorrow: Federico Garcia Lorca / Poet in New York,” this special installment of LIVE from the NYPL celebrates Lorca's life and legacy with performances and readings. Participants include John Giorno, Will Keen and Maria Fernandez Ache, Philip Levine, Christopher Maurer, Paul Muldoon, Patti Smith, and Tracy K. Smith. Written while Federico García Lorca was a student at Columbia University in 1929-30, Poet in New York is arguably one of the poet’s most important works, and a powerful testament to New York City as seen through the eye...
Philip Levine in conversation with Naomi Jaffa at Aldeburgh Poetry Festival in November 2009. In this excerpt from their discussion, Levine talks about being taught first by Robert Lowell and then by John Berryman at the University of Iowa, where his classmates included Donald Justice, W.D. Snodgrass and Henri Coulette. Levine says a lot more about having Berryman and Yvor Winters as mentors in his memoir THE BREAD OF TIME (1994/2002). His poetry is published in Britain by Bloodaxe Books in STRANGER TO NOTHING: SELECTED POEMS: http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/titlepage.asp?isbn=1852247371 This discussion was organised by the Poetry Trust as part of the 2009 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival: http://www.thepoetrytrust.org
The Great Hall, Cooper Union. September 24, 2015. With Ann Close, Toi Derricotte, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunkayaa, Mari L'Esperance, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Jane Mead, Tomás Q. Morín, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, David St. John, and Gerald Stern. Co-sponsored with the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Cooper Union, the Library of Congress, the NYU Creative Writing Program, Penguin Random House, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House, Queens College, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
Philip Levine, the former Poet Laureate of the United States, is 84 years old. Kristen Dupard, the 2012 Poetry Out Loud National Champion, just graduated high school. Though decades apart in age and miles apart in geography---she's from Ridgeland, Mississippi; he's from Detroit---they share something so rare that it defies classification. In this video, the two sat down to discuss his poem, "What Work Is."
National Poet Laureate Philip Levine, in a discussion taped in 1998, reads his work and discusses his writing on "The Writing Life," a writer to writer talk show produced by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. He reads "Escape" "M. Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942," and "The Poem of Chalk." Named National Poet Laureate in 2011, Levine is interviewed by poet and editor Elizabeth Spires. For more information about "The Writing Life" and HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), visit www.hocopolitso.org.
The Poetry Breaks series is a series of videos filmed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by creator Leita Luchetti, who co-produced the series with the WGBH New Television Workshops. Poetry Breaks features short videos of internationally renowned poets reading their work, reading the work of other poets, and discussing their takes on poetry in a variety of locations. The Academy of American Poets has partnered with Luchetti to present these videos once again.
Philip Levine, whose poetry has honored the working man for almost half a century, gives his inaugural reading as the 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the Laureate's appointment on Aug. 10. Speaker Biography: Philip Levine is the author of 20 collections of poems, including most recently "News of the World" (2009), which The New York Times Sunday Book Review describes as "characteristically wise." Levine won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for "The Simple Truth," the National Book Award in 1991 for "What Work Is" and in 1980 for "Ashes: Poems New and Old," the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1979 for both "Ashes: Poems New and Old" and "7 Years From Somewhere," and the 1975 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for "Names of the Lost." ...
Philip Levine's collection of poetry, The Simple Truth, won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize. Publishers Weekly praised The Simple Truth by noting "the 'simplicity' of his language, offering an ease of approach to us, seems to give truth (and poetry) to everyone." Levine's poetry is grounded in the harsh reality of contemporary life. He once described his poetry as an attempt to create "a voice for the voiceless." His acclaimed early volumes include Not This Pig (1968), They Feed They Lion (1972), Ashes (1979), which received the American Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and 7 Years From Somewhere (1979) which also received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He also has written The Bread of Time: Toward an Autobiography (1994), nine essays which focus on a particular per...
National Poet Laureate Philip Levine, in a discussion taped in 1998, reads his work and discusses his writing on "The Writing Life," a writer to writer talk show produced by the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society. He reads "Escape" "M. Degas Teaches Art and Science at Durfee Intermediate School, Detroit, 1942," and "The Poem of Chalk." Named National Poet Laureate in 2011, Levine is interviewed by poet and editor Elizabeth Spires. For more information about "The Writing Life" and HoCoPoLitSo (the Howard County Poetry and Literature Society), visit www.hocopolitso.org.
Poet Philip Levine joins Bill to discuss why Americans have lost sight of who really keeps the country afloat -- the hard working men and women who toil, unsung and unknown, in our nation's fields and factories. During the years he himself spent in the grit, noise and heat of the assembly lines of Detroit auto plants, Levine discovered that his gift for verse could provide "a voice for the voiceless." In his conversation with Bill, Levine reads from his collection of poetry and reflects on the personalities that inspired him, including women he met while working in a plumbing parts factory. "The work was hard and the women would get very tired and you couldn't help but feel, 'Oh my God, this is so tough; this is so dehumanizing," Levine tells Moyers. Philip Levine is the author of twenty...
Philip Levine, 18th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress, concludes the Library's literary spring season. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5557.
U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine gives a reading as part of the centennial celebration of University of Rochester poet Hyam Plutzik, and the reading series established in his name. Established in 1962, the Plutzik Reading Series is the longest and one of the most prestigious collegiate poetry reading series in the United States. Help us caption & translate this video! http://amara.org/v/CGzO/
The Great Hall, Cooper Union. September 24, 2015. With Ann Close, Toi Derricotte, Juan Felipe Herrera, Edward Hirsch, Yusef Komunkayaa, Mari L'Esperance, Dorianne Laux, Paul Mariani, Jane Mead, Tomás Q. Morín, Sharon Olds, Tom Sleigh, David St. John, and Gerald Stern. Co-sponsored with the Academy of American Poets, Cave Canem Foundation, Cooper Union, the Library of Congress, the NYU Creative Writing Program, Penguin Random House, the Poetry Society of America, Poets House, Queens College, and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y.
http://www.92Y.org/VPC | "Rita Dove has always refused to be confined by category," wrote The New York Times. "Her poems wander into unexpected metaphor and subject matter." In poems, prose and a short play, Dove's latest book, Sonata Mullatica, reimagines the life and times of George Polgreen Bridgetower, a 19th-century violin virtuoso. Philip Levine "is extraordinary, a visionary of our dense, troubled, mysterious time," wrote Joyce Carol Oates. "The grittiest and most brutal of his poems is, to me, an experience I would not hesitate to call ineffable." Levine's latest collection is News of the World. Recorded November 19, 2009 at 92nd Street Y.
Philip Levine speaks to high schools and public libraries about his poetry from the Library of Congress. This is the second time a U.S. Poet Laureate has participated in a video conference at the Library of Congress. On April 1, 2010, Kay Ryan led a video conference on the writing process with students from four community colleges in celebration of Community College Poetry Day. The video conference was part of Ryan’s national poetry project Poetry for the Mind’s Joy.