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The Printers' Ball on Chic-A-Go-Go 6
Ratso meets bookbinder Stephen DeSantis making featherproof books. What's a featherproof book? It's a book you can make yourself! He printed pages from a computer and folded and stapled them and made a book! It's not dangerous at all!...
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: Rahm Emanuel
Mayor Emanuel Reads "Chicago" by Carl Sandburg.
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: "Since There is No Help" by Michael Drayton
Read by Kurt Sepmeier.
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Favorite Poem Project: Chicago
Robert Polito and Robert Pinsky introduce the Favorite Poem Project: Chicago.
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Favorite Poem Project Chicago: "The Waking" by Theodore Roethke
Read by Tom Moran.
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2021 Pegasus Awards
Welcome to the 2021 Pegasus Awards Ceremony, celebrating this year’s winners of the Poetry Foundation’s annual awards! Tonight we are honoring Patricia Smith as winner of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Susan Briante as winner of the...
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José Olivarez reads “Como Tú” (“Like You”)
José Olivarez reads the Roque Dalton poem, “Como Tú”. Turn captions on for the English translation.
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Andy Powell reads "My Heart Is A Public Park"
Andy Powell (he/him/his) reads his poem, “My Heart Is A Public Park
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Jonny Sun reads "I saw Emmett Till this week at the grocery store"
Jonny Sun reads a poem by Eve L. Ewing, imagining what Emmett Till would have been like if he had lived to become an old man living an ordinary life.
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Sasha Banks reads "uhmareka, post collapse: three"
Sasha Banks (she/her/hers) reads her poem, "uhmareka, post collapse: three
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Elizabeth Acevedo reads "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton
Elizabeth Acevedo (she/her/hers) reads the poem "blessing the boats" by Lucille Clifton.
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Hannah Hart reads Khalil Gibran
Hannah Hart reads "On Work" from Khalil Gibran's book, The Prophet.
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Samin Nosrat reads "Elegy" by Aracelis Girmay
Samin Nosrat (she/her/hers) reads the poem, "Elegy" by Aracelis Girmay.
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Shailene Woodley reads Khalil Gibran
Shailene Woodley reads a poem on love from The Prophet by Khalil Gibran.
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Debbie Millman reads "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke
Debbie Millman (she/her/hers) reads Rainer Maria Rilke's poem, “The Panther
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Donika Kelly reads "Torna Atrás"
Donika Kelly reads the Natasha Trethewey poem, "Torna Atrás
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Ilya Kaminsky reads "Hope is the thing with feathers"
Ilya Kaminsky reads Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope is the thing with feathers
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John Green reads Poetry
John Green kicks off Ours Poetica by reading a poem about poems: Poetry by Marianne Moore.
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Hank Green reads "The Raven"
Hank Green reads a quintessential Halloween poem, The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Joe Hanson reads "If Only We Had Taller Been" by Ray Bradbury
Joe Hanson (he/him/his) reads the poem, "If Only We Had Taller Been" by Ray Bradbury.
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R.A. Villanueva reads "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay
R.A. Villanueva (he/him/his) reads the poem "On Kindness" by Aracelis Girmay.
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Rainn Wilson reads “The City in Which I Love You”
Rainn Wilson reads Li-Young Lee's poem, “The City in Which I Love You”.
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Naomi Shihab Nye reads "Separation Wall"
Naomi Shihab Nye reads her poem, "Separation Wall