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The Poet's View offers unprecedented insight into the lives and work of some of America's finest poets through conversations with the award winning director Mel Stuart. Including recollections and thoughts about craft, these short films are warmly insightful portraits recorded mostly in the personal setting of each poet's home. The Poet’s View offers an up-close and honest invitation into the day-to-day life of the poet and a chance to hear a few poems read by the author.

The series was produced by the Academy of American Poets with generous assistance from the Wallace Stevens Fund, and was directed by public-television favorite Mel Stuart, director of the original Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory and the critically acclaimed documentary Wattstax.

running time: 20 minutes per segment; 80 minutes total.

Featuring:

	John Ashbery is the author of more than twenty books of poetry, most recently A Worldly Country. He has won nearly every major American award for poetry. Most noteably, His collection A Wave won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the National Book Award; and Some Trees was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poets Series.
	Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Averno, a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages; and Vita Nova, winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry. In 2003, Gluck served as the Library of Congress's twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, and was announced as the new judge of the Yale Series of Younger Poets.
	Anthony Hecht's books of poetry include The Darkness and the Light; Flight Among the Tombs; and The Hard Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize. He has received the Bollingen Prize, the Ruth Lilly Prize, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the American Academy in Rome, the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He was a Chancellor Emeritus of The Academy of American Poets and lived in Washington, D.C. He died on October 20, 2004.
	W. S. Merwin is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry, including Migration, which won the 2005 National Book Award; Travels, which won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize; and The Carrier of Ladders, which received the Pulitzer Prize. He is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and lives and works in Hawaii.

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