Over the past year, Americans have become more introspective.
We’ve been almost forced to examine who we are, what we are, our values and beliefs and what makes Americans… American. In the search for our national identity, many of us have turned to poetry for answers; through the stanzas of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Allen Ginsberg and Langston Hughes.
The poems have celebrated our country’s landscape, patriotism, resilience and diversity, but they’ve also been very critical about slavery, war, and hypocrisy. Tonight, the poetry of Americans, by Americans and for Americans with the former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky.
Guests:
Robert Pinsky, Former US Poet Laureate, Poetry editor of Slate.com and author of “Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry”.
