<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Poetry | PBS NewsHour | PBS</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/entertainment/poetry/</link><description>A special NewsHour series that couples profiles of contempory poets with reports on news and trends in the world of poetry.</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2009 MacNeil/Lehrer Productions. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:38:23 EST</pubDate><lastBuildDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 19:38:23 EST</lastBuildDate><image><title>PBS NewsHour</title><width>144</width><height>144</height><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/</link><url>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/images/rss/promo_rss.jpg</url></image><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'TV, Evening News'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/12/weekly-poem-tv-evening-news.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:46:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marie Ponsot has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.]]></description></item><item><title>Poet Marie Ponsot Celebrating Life at 88</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/artbeat_11-30.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:45:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A profile of 88-year-old poet Marie Ponsot, who published her sixth collection of poems last month called "Easy."]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Contracted'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poem-contracted.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:50:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Marie Ponsot has published several books of poems, including most recently, "Springing" (2002) and "The Bird Catcher" (1998), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the 1999 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poems: Keith Waldrop, 2009 National Book Award Winner</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poems-keith-waldrop-2009-national-book-award-winner.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:13:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Keith Waldrop won the 2009 National Book Award for "Transcendental Studies," a trilogy of collage poems. The two poems below are from "Transcendental Studies."]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Storm'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poem-storm.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:51:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kwame Dawes is director of the South Carolina Poetry Initiative and the University of South Carolina Arts Institute, where he also teaches as distinguished poet in residence.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poems: On Sesame Street's 40th Birthday, Kermit and Cookie Monster</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poems-on-sesame-streets-40th-birthday-kermit-and-cookie-monster.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:17:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Hit children's television show "Sesame Street" celebrates its 40th anniversary Tuesday. Please enjoy Cookie Monster's hilarious poetry reading below.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poems: a Double From the 'Mets Poet'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/11/weekly-poems-a-double-from-the-mets-poet.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:20:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Frank Messina, also known as the "Mets Poet," is the author of four books of poetry, including "Full Count: The Book of Mets Poetry," released in April, and "Disorderly Conduct," published in 2002.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'The Golden Window'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/weekly-poem-the-golden-window.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:38:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems.]]></description></item><item><title>Poet Sherman Alexie Talks 'Faces' and 'War Dances'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/alexie_10-22.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:48:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Author Sherman Alexie talks about his new book of poetry called "Faces" and his new short story collection, "War Dances."]]></description></item><item><title>Poet Laureate Kay Ryan Pushes Verse for Community Colleges</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/poet-laureate-kay-ryan-pushes-verse-for-community-colleges.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:38:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Kay Ryan came into office as an "unlikely" poet laureate, she has said, living a quiet life in California, working away on her refined, compact verse. Now in her second term as the 16th U.S. poet laureate, she has decided on a project to share with the nation.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Ode to Mix Tapes'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/weekly-poem-ode-to-mix-tapes.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:04:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Sherman Alexie is a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Indian born on the Spokane Indian Reservation in Wellpinit, Wash. He is the author of several novels and collections of short fiction and poetry, including "Face" and "War Dances," published this year.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Domestique'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/weekly-poem-domestique.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:11:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Heather McHugh was among the recipients of the so-called "Genius Award" (i.e. the 2009 MacArthur Fellowship).]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'If a Person Visits Someone in a Dream, in Some Cultures the Dreamer Thanks Them'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/10/weekly-poem-if-a-person-visits-someone-in-a-dream-in-some-cultures-the-dreamer-thanks-them.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:03:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jean Valentine has published 11 books of poetry and is also the editor of "The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor." Last month, she won the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets.]]></description></item><item><title>Albert Goldbarth, Poet at Play </title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/</link><pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:48:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Albert Goldbarth discusses his writing, his toy collection and his latest book of poetry, "To Be Read in 500 Years." ]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'September, Inverness'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/weekly-poem-september-inverness.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:09:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Robert Hass served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. His books of poetry include "Time and Materials" (2007 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner).]]></description></item><item><title>Profile of 'Genius Award' Winner Heather McHugh</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/genius_09-22.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:49:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A profile of Seattle poet Heather McHugh, who was awarded the MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday.]]></description></item><item><title>MacArthur Winner McHugh Serves Up the Weekly Poem</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/macarthur-winner-mchugh-serves-up-weekly-poem.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:00:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Among today's recipients of the so-called "Genius Award" (i.e. the MacArthur Fellowship) is poet Heather McHugh.]]></description></item><item><title>Conversation: Patti Smith Reflects on the Life of Her Friend, Jim Carroll</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/conversation-patti-smith-reflects-on-the-life-of-her-friend-jim-carroll.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:21:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It was Patti Smith who first encouraged Jim Carroll to blend his poetry with rock 'n' roll, bringing him on stage to perform his work with her band. He went on to form the Jim Carroll Band. Jeffrey Brown talks to Smith about her friend, who passed away Friday.]]></description></item><item><title>Rocker, Poet Jim Carroll Dies at Age 60</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/rocker-poet-jim-carroll-dies-at-age-60.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:56:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," passed away Friday at the age of 60. Our weekly poem is Carroll's "Heroin," which originally appeared in the Paris Review, Issue 48, Fall 1969. The audio was recorded in 2001 and made available by Salon.com.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'First Thing'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/09/weekly-poem-first-thing.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:11:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Paul Hunter is a poet, musician and teacher. He produces letterpress books and broadsides under the imprint of Wood Works Press, his poems have appeared many journals, and he's the author of several chapbooks and four books of poetry.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Erasers'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/weekly-poem-erasers.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:29:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mary Jo Salter is a poet, lyricist, playwright and essayist, whose latest collection of poems, "A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems," was published in March 2008.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Physical Portrait / Retrato fisico'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/weekly-poem-physical-portrait-retrato-fisico.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Cecilia Vicuna's visual work has been exihibited at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MoMA. She is also co-editor of the Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry, which was published this month.]]></description></item><item><title>Junk Man: Poet and Professor Albert Goldbarth</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/poetry_08-17.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:48:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Poet and toy collector Albert Goldbarth is a two-time winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as the Mark Twain Prize for Humor. In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, Goldbarth discusses his writing, and his latest book of poetry,"To Be Read in 500 Years." ]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Beauty Parlor'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/weekly-poem-beauty-parlor.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:46:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: "Woman in the Painting," "The Other Life" and "House Without a Dreamer," which won the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Too Here'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/weekly-poem-too-here.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:34:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987.]]></description></item><item><title>'When She Named Fire' Examines Contemporary Women's Poetry</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/-listen-to-xxxx-talk.html</link><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:59:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When the editors at Autumn House Press in Pittsburgh started looking around at various anthologies of contemporary poetry, they noticed most of the general collections still featured more male bards than female.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Living Room'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/08/weekly-poem-living-room.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 10:58:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Andrea Hollander Budy is the author of three poetry collections: "Woman in the Painting," "The Other Life" and "House Without a Dreamer." She is also the editor of "When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women."]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'How Simile Works'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/07/weekly-poem-how-simile-works.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:26:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Albert Goldbarth is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and has won numerous awards, including two National Book Critics Circle Awards. He is a professor of humanities at Wichita State University, where he has taught since 1987.]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Barking'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/07/weekly-poem-barking.html</link><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:25:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Jim Harrison has published more than 30 collections of poetry and prose. "In Search of Small Gods" is his twelfth book of poems. ]]></description></item><item><title>Weekly Poem: 'Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand'</title><link>http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rss/redir/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/blog/2009/07/weekly-poem-like-hearing-your-name-called-in-a-language-you-dont-understand.html</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:13:00 EST</pubDate><description><![CDATA[C.D. Wright has published 13 collections of poetry and prose. "Like Hearing Your Name Called in a Language You Don't Understand" is taken from "Rising, Falling, Hovering" (Copper Canyon, 2008), which in June won the Griffin Poetry Prize.]]></description></item></channel></rss>