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Poem of the Day - April is National Poetry Month
Today's Theme: Butterflies
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POEM OF THE DAY
Emily Dickinson - The Butterfly's Day
EVOLUTION EARTH - Heat
Saturday, 4/27 from 11 am-12 pm NH EXPLORE
Islands are like miniature simplified Earths, where evolution is playing out at superspeed right before our eyes. Journey from the Galapagos to the edge of Antarctica to seek out animals responding to our changing planet in extraordinary ways. EVOLUTION EARTH Streaming Video
POETRY IN AMERICA - Phillis Wheatley: To the University
Sunday, 4/28 from 7-7:30 pm NH WORLD
In 1770s Boston, Phillis Wheatley was at the same time enslaved and an international celebrity: a writer who mastered the most persuasive rhetoric of the day to publish enduring arguments about freedom. Inaugural poets Amanda Gorman and Richard Blanco, writer Clint Smith, and scholars Glenda Carpio and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. join host Elisa New to read two of Wheatley’s poems for public occasions. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video
POETRY IN AMERICA - Six Years Later, Epitaph for Centaur
Sunday, 4/28 from 7:30-8 pm NH WORLD
Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures. Theater of War productions artistic director Bryan Doerries, writer Yelena Akhtiorskaya, and scholars Sven Birkerts, Zakhar Ishov, Jonathan Brent, and Joseph Ellis read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile. POETRY IN AMERICA Streaming Video
AMERICAN MASTERS - Ailey
Saturday, 4/27 from 8-9:30 pm NH WORLD
Discover the legendary choreographer Alvin Ailey whose dances center on the Black American experience with grace, strength, and beauty. Featuring previously unheard audio interviews with Ailey, interviews with those close to him, and an intimate glimpse into the Ailey studios today. AMERICAN MASTERS Streaming Video
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