Fast Break - Edward Hirsch -
poetry in america

Tue, Apr 1 2:30 P.M. NH World (11.3)

Join poet Edward Hirsch, host Elisa New, NBA players Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol, and Shane Battier, and a group of pick-up basketball players as they read Hirsch's "Fast Break" and use basketball to understand poetry - and poetry to understand the game of basketball.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 102

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Tue, Apr 1	2:30 P.M.	Fast Break - Edward Hirsch NH World (11.3)

About Poetry In America:

Poetry in America explores the diversity of American poetry.

In each episode, members of various American communities join host Elisa New, following Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, Alberto Rios to the Sonoran Desert, Richard Blanco to Marco Island, and more.

Joining along the way are singers and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and physicists, and teachers and their students.

Watch Poetry In America - Clips, Episodes & Previews

Shirt by Robert Pinsky

Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

Fast Break by Edward Hirsch

I cannot dance opon my toes by Emily Dickinson

The Gray Heron by Galway Kinnell

The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus

Future Broadcast times for "Poetry In America": (show all)

Tue, Apr 1	2:00 P.M.	I Cannot Dance Upon My Toes - Emily Dickinson NH World (11.3)
Tue, Apr 1	2:30 P.M.	Fast Break - Edward Hirsch NH World (11.3)
Tue, Apr 1	3:00 P.M.	Those Winter Sundays - Robert Hayden NH World (11.3)
Tue, Apr 1	3:30 P.M.	Hymmnn and Hum Bom - Allen Ginsberg NH World (11.3)
Tue, Apr 1	4:00 P.M.	Skyscraper - Carl Sandburg NH World (11.3)
Tue, Apr 1	4:30 P.M.	Harlem - Langston Hughes NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	2:00 P.M.	Musee Des Beaux Arts - W.H. Auden NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	2:30 P.M.	Shirt - Robert Pinsky NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	3:00 P.M.	To Prisoners - Gwendolyn Brooks NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	3:30 P.M.	The Gray Heron - Galway Kinnell NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	4:00 P.M.	The New Colossus - Emma Lazarus NH World (11.3)
Wed, Apr 2	4:30 P.M.	Urban Love Poem - Marilyn Chin NH World (11.3)
Thu, Apr 3	2:00 P.M.	One Art - Elizabeth Bishop NH World (11.3)
Thu, Apr 3	2:30 P.M.	The Fish - Marianne Moore NH World (11.3)
Thu, Apr 3	3:00 P.M.	This Your Home Now - Mark Doty NH World (11.3)
Thu, Apr 3	3:30 P.M.	Finishing The Hat - Stephen Sondheim NH World (11.3)