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An Interview with Alice Walker

By Alice Walker — 2018

In this BBC interview, Pulitzer Prize–winning author, Alice Walker, describes a childhood experience and the thoughts it triggered about poverty, rage, oppression, sexism, and misogyny that has influenced her writing.

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Amanda Gorman: Using Your Voice Is a Political Choice

For anyone who believes poetry is stuffy or elitist, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman has some characteristically well-chosen words. According to Amanda, poetry is for everyone, because at its core it’s all about connection and collaboration.

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Amanda Gorman
2019
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55:24

Kathleen Raine - Nature, the House of the Soul

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Kathleen Raine
2020
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39:45

Lucille Clifton & Sonia Sanchez: Mirrors & Windows

Clifton & Sanchez - Mirrors & Windows 10/24/2001 at The New School, New York, NY. Moderated by Eisa Davis.

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Lucille Clifton
2016
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Mary Oliver with Coleman Barks, 4 Aug 2001

Mary Oliver's poetry, with her lyrical connection to the natural world, has firmly established her in the highest realm of American poets. She is renowned for her evocative and precise imagery, which brings nature into clear focus, transforming the everyday world into a place of magic and discovery.

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Mary Oliver
2010
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Mary Oliver Reads "The Summer Day" (Aka "The Grasshopper")

Mary Oliver reads her poem, "The Summer Day," Copyright 1990. "The Summer Day" first appeared in House of Light (Beacon Press, 1990), and has been reprinted in New and Selected Poems, Volume 1 (Beacon Press, 1992) and The Truro Bear and Other Adventures (Beacon Press, 2008).

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Mary Oliver
2011
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