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The lives of three outspoken poets intersect as they harness the power of the word. CJ Suitt confronts the racial injustice of a Southern black male. Kamaya Truitt-Martin competes in poetry slams across the country to heal a broken home. Jeremy Berggren employs art and poetry to cope with PTSD and to bear witness to the suffering of veterans. The 19th-century poet John Keats said, "Truth is beauty," and beauty is harsh.
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Marking the centennial on 27 October 2014 of Dylan Thomas's birth, this drama written by acclaimed screenwriter Andrew Davies, explores the final days of this famous poet, known for his wild, hard-drinking lifestyle as well as his brilliance. The film begins as Thomas arrives in New York where he planned to rehearse, write, and party, before travelling to Hollywood to write an opera with the equally famous composer Stravinsky. But what might have...
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In this program, contemporary poets, including W. N. Herbert and Clare Pollard, read and discuss three modern poems-"You will be hearing from us shortly" by U. A. Fanthorpe, "Front Lines" by Gary Snyder, and "Illuminations" by Tony Harrison-as well as the classic "This living hand, now warm and capable" by John Keats.
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In this program, several prominent poets combine evocative readings and cinematic interpretations of two classic poems-"They fle from me that sometyme did me seke" by Sir Thomas Wyatt and "Jubilate Agno" by Christopher Smart-as well as three modern ones: "In a Station of the Metro" and "Alba" by Ezra Pound and "History of the Airplane" by Lawrence Ferlinghetti.
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This program provides a detailed analysis of four great English poems: "Eden Rock" by Charles Causley, "In Westminster Abbey" by Sir John Betjeman, "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley, and "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. Readings, along with critical and historical commentary, are given by poets Kate Clanchy, Wendy Cope, Matthew Sweeney, PJ Kavanagh, Michael Donaghy, Owen Sheers, Jean Binta Breeze, Jamie McKendrick, and English poet laureate...
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In this program, "Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNiece, "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost, "How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear" by Edward Lear, and "The Red Wheelbarrow" and "To a Poor Old Woman" by William Carlos Williams are read by a group of contemporary poets. Kate Clanchy, Jamie McKendrick, Tom Paulin, Jean Binta Breeze, Jerome Rothenberg, Sophie Hannah, Matthew Sweeney, and Kenneth Koch offer commentary on the themes and images of the selected...
7) We Are Poets
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The poignant tale of six remarkable British teenagers competing in a prestigious poetry competition in Washington D.C. From the streets of inner city Leeds to the stages of the American capital, this documentary charts the personal journeys of poets on the cusp of adulthood, hungry for change and full of fervour. Much more than just a hop across the pond; a resurrection of an ancient art form interwoven with inspiring snapshots of British youth.
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This program uses computer imagery and on-screen Spanish text to explore Cardenal's mystical masterwork of political cosmology. Rare interviews with the Nicaraguan poet are interwoven with excerpts from the legendary poem, "Cantico Cosmico." Written over the past thirty years, the poem takes us beyond a purely political understanding of Latin American history by incorporating scientific theories and religious concepts. Students can immerse themselves...
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The Cuban poet, novelist, radio playwright and essayist, Severo Sarduy, talks with Joaquin Soler Serrano in this 1978 interview for Spanish television about his childhood in the Spanish Baroque town of Camagüey, his medical studies in Havana and art studies in Paris. Sarduy and the host explore themes in his novels, like his experimental novel "From Cuba with a Song," and discuss metamorphosis in his novel "Cobra." Sarduy expresses his interest in...
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This documentary film about the life of the remarkable author and illustrator of The Tale Of Peter Rabbit, is based on the successful biography. The film is full of examples of Beatrix Potter's exquisite watercolors. Narrated by Lynn Redgrave, with music by Ernest V. Troost.
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A riveting portrait of the great writer whose stories became the basis of the Broadway musical Fiddler on the Roof. Plumbing the depths of a Jewish world locked in crisis and on the cusp of profound change, he captured that world with brilliant humor. Sholem Aleichem was not just a witness to the creation of a new modern Jewish identity, but one of the very men who forged it.
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From 1981 to 1983, the Dunbar High School boys' basketball team in Baltimore was arguably the best high school basketball team that ever played. Over two seasons, they went 59-0, and eleven players on their rosters went off to Division I programs. Four would become future NBA players: David Wingate, Reggie Williams, Tyrone 'Muggsy' Bogues and Reggie Lewis, three of them making history by being selected together in the first round of the 1987 draft....
13) Rafael Alberti
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As a member of the Generation of '27, Alberti won numerous prizes and awards and is considered one of the great literary figures of the Silver Age of Spanish Literature. In this program, Alberti recites his poem "Marinero en tierra" and reads a poem composed for the interview, "Concerning praise on my account." He also shows his many books that combine his art and poems.
In this 1977 interview for Spanish television on the returnof exiled Spanish...
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Narrated by Academy Award-winner Ben Kingsley, this multi-award-winning program is the most complete portrait of the world-renowned author considered by many to be the greatest Christian writer of the 20th century. C.S. Lewis continues to bring magic into the lives of readers young and old with his classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. He is one of the most commercially successful authors. None of his thirty-eight books have ever been...
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Produced in 1965, this classic Canadian documentary is an informal portrait of the Montreal poet, novelist, and songwriter Leonard Cohen. The celebrated Renaissance man was inducted into both the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Canadian Music Hall of Fame; he is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honor. Shot in black and white, the film captures Cohen as he reads his poetry to a rapt audience. It also...
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Wordsworth's great sonnet is a celebration of the beauty of London at dawn. This film explores exactly how the poem came about at this crucial turning point in Wordsworth's life. Owen looks at how the apparently simple poem is built and explores how Wordsworth's admiration of Milton's sonnets encouraged him to adopt the form for his 1802 London sonnets. He also examines how other poets characterized London in the early nineteenth century before turning...
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Sylvia Plath's breathtaking modern verse, radically feminine perspective and anatomization of her depression and journey to suicide brought a whole new readership to poetry. 'Hardcastle Crags' and 'The Great Carbuncle,' set on the moor above Heptonstall, the Yorkshire town where she is now buried, are representative of work addressing an adopted landscape when she was newly married to Ted Hughes. The film explores Plath's visits to Hughes's family...
18) Where I Am
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Left for dead after a brutal attack ten years ago, gay American writer Robert Drake embarks on a harrowing journey of forgiveness and acceptance as he struggles to regain his former life.
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Patricia Kathleen Page, commonly known as P. K. Page, was a Canadian artist and the author of more than 30 published books of fiction, poetry, travel diaries, essays, children's books, and an autobiography. Her visual art has been exhibited at a number of galleries in and out of Canada. Still Waters: The Poetry of P. K. Page encapsulates the varied life of the woman who reached international stature as both a painter and a poet. Her imagistic brilliance...