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April 1 – April 30
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Arizona PBS
This National Poetry Month, watch educational and entertaining specials, listen to powerful spoken word pieces, and access activities for kids. Enjoy our special Poets Showcase featuring spoken word artists in Arizona.
Poets Showcase presented by Arizona PBS
Harold “HB” Branch
Qosmic Qandence
Urban Poet: Real Love
Tomás J. Stanton
Jay Tatum
Harold “HB” Branch: My Mother’s Son
Oya Sunshine
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new episodes
Poetry in America Season 4
“Poetry in America” explores the diversity of American poetry. Actors, performers, public figures, and everyday Americans join host Elisa New to read and discuss unforgettable American poems. The poems in Season 4 take us from colonial Boston to the halls of Congress, from Texas Hill Country to Central Park.
Join us for a night of ‘Poetry in America’
special event
Circle on Circle: Robert Lowell’s D.C.
May 2, 2024
Join us for an evening with “Poetry in America” as host Elisa New sits down with political consultant David Axelrod to discuss poet Robert Lowell. Lowell was the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, served as Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and was a Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress in Washington, DC from 1947 to 1948.
SPONSOR MESSAGE:
two-part series
A mesmerizing look at ‘Dante: Inferno to Paradise’
For lovers of literature, this mesmerizing descent into Dante’s “Inferno” and ascent into “Purgatorio” and “Paradiso” is a must see. Along with snippets from all three canticles of “The Divine Comedy,” dubbed one of the greatest achievements in the history of Western literature, the two-part series also chronicles the life of Dante Alighieri, including his exile from Florence and his lifelong inspiration, the fair Beatrice.
Arizona PBS Kids
Celebrate National Poetry Month with a diamante poem activity for the classroom
Introduce students to a new type of poetry to get their creative juices flowing: diamantes, structured poems with seven lines that form the shape of a diamond.
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