Skyscraper - Carl Sandburg -
poetry in america

Elisa New considers the rise of the skyscraper-- and the emergence of the modernist poem-- in an episode featuring celebrated architect Frank Gehry, Chinese visionary and real estate developer Zhang Xin, poet Robert Polito, and student poets from around the United States.

Duration: 26 minutes and 46 seconds

Episode Number: 105

No future air times were found for this episode.

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

This Your Home Now, by Mark Doty

Shirt by Robert Pinsky

I cannot dance opon my toes by Emily Dickinson

Skyscraper by Carl Sandburg

The Gray Heron by Galway Kinnell

Finishing the Hat, by Stephen Sondheim

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

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)
Thu, Apr 3	4:00 P.M.	You and I Are Disappearing - Yusef Komunyakaa NH World (11.3)
Thu, Apr 3	4:30 P.M.	"This Is Just to Say" - William Carlos Williams NH World (11.3)
Mon, Apr 7	2:00 P.M.	Whitman NH World (11.3)
Mon, Apr 7	2:30 P.M.	The Wound Dresser NH World (11.3)
Mon, Apr 7	3:00 P.M.	Looking for the Gulf Motel NH World (11.3)
Mon, Apr 7	3:30 P.M.	Cascadilla Falls NH World (11.3)