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U.S. poet laureate Joy Harjo on opening a ‘doorway of hope’ for indigenous artists
Joy Harjo, the new poet laureate of the United States, is the first Native American to achieve that honor. Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Harjo, a member of Oklahoma's Muscogee Creek Nation, in Tulsa to discuss how arts shaped…
The poet laureate wants you to read this poem
"There is so much noise in our culture. So many frantic, angry, unreliable voices.... Poetry is an antidote to that."…
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For newly named U.S. poet laureate, the power of poetry is opening ourselves to others
Tracy K. Smith, a writer and teacher, is taking on a very public role as the nation's poet laureate. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Smith to discuss how language can be a tool of revelation, her reflections on race in…
Watch new poet laureate Tracy K. Smith read two of her poems
Tracy K. Smith, the nation’s newest poet laureate, says writing is not just about expressing emotion but of the choices you make when putting words on the page. She reads two of her poems here.
He’s the son of migrant workers and today Juan Felipe Herrera becomes the next U.S. Poet Laureate, the first Latino to hold the position. Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown met Herrera at the place where it all started.
Philip Levine, a former auto worker turned acclaimed poet, died Saturday. He was 87. His death was caused by complications from pancreatic cancer, the New York Times reported. Levine was perhaps best known for tackling the world of the…
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Wright was recently named the U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. In this NewsHour encore piece, we traveled to the author’s home in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2011 to listen to Wright read his work…
Charles Wright, a master of capturing landscape and meditation in verse, has been named the next Poet Laureate of the United States by the Library of Congress. It is the latest in a long list of honors and awards for…
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