One of the leading icons of the Beat movement, Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems became one of the most widely read poems of the century, translated into more than twenty-two languages... More >
Anne Waldman
A prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, Anne Waldman, was born in Millville, New Jersey on April 2, 1945... More >
Mark Strand
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Rita Dove
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Rita Dove served as the Poet Laureate for the United State from 1993 to 1995... More >
Mark Strand's "The Poem of the Spanish Poet" first appeared in the journal Salamagundi and Best American Poetry 2011 before being adapted by Juan Delcan into this crisp, black and white "motionpoem."
The award-winning PBS series for which this video was created, by Bob Holman and Josh Blum, aired in 1995. Here, Dove ruminates on the rural/industrial qualities of silos—over a beautifully photographed montage of these strange, architectural containers.
"Silos" appears in Dove's collection Grace Notes (W. W. Norton, 1991).
we need to talk money. to understand the current currency of our time.
The initial image that appears—before cutting to Coleman's poetic/mock infomercial—is the conceptual artist Barbara Kruger's poster We Get Exploded Because They’ve Got Money and God in Their Pockets (1984). Coleman offers a similar critique, reframing her call to action via the visual cues of advertising. Featured in the PBS Documentary The United States of Poetry, Wanda Coleman's poem parodies the medium on which it was originally aired.
"Talk About the Money" appears in her collection Hand Dance (David R. Godine Publisher, 1993).
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