Writer and poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica. Produced by Outer Voices and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of Misrule won the National Book Award this winter.

This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen pal program for youth.

From 16 century mystics to Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia Lorca - a wonderfully danceable sampler of Latin American and Spanish poems

Rhyme in Arabic, English, and French poetry.

Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language.

The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-American Pulitzer Prize winner and highly influential poet, as she reads from her works.

Two shows exploring the power of poetry — from our earliest childhood rhyming games to expressions that attempt to capture in words the spiritual connection with the divine.

This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen pal program for youth.

On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped his poetry could heal the war-torn nation in a similar way.

"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison system.

Written and recorded by the authors themselves (under their chosen pen names) in juvenile halls throughout California from Summer, 2010 through January, 2011. They are very pleased to present Season Two.

When Helen Vendler was only 13, the future poetry critic and Harvard professor memorized several of Emily Dickinson’s more famous poems. They’ve stayed with her over the years, and today, she talks with ThoughtCast’s Jenny Attiyeh about one poem in particular that’s haunted her all this time. It’s called "I cannot live with You-".

According to Vendler, whose authoritative "Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries" has recently been published, it’s a heartbreaking poem of an unresolvable dilemma, and ensuing despair.

Youth Radio chronicles life in Oakland, California, where an alarming number of youth homicides has weighed heavily on the community.

Award winning and nationally acclaimed Native American students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word Club perform "Creation Poem".

Poet John Casteen hunts for deer and inspiration in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Andrei Codresu (ExquisiteCorpse.org) takes a trio of his poetry students from Louisiana State University and introduces them to the poets on the streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans.

Chicago Public Media (WBEZ-Chicago) is thrilled to distribute a series of studio recordings featuring the finalists of the 2011 Louder Than a Bomb Teen Poetry Festival and Competition.

“In Verse” is a multimedia reporting project combining poetry, photography and sound. This installment features poet Susan B.A. Somers-Willett, photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally and producer Lu Olkowski as they document the lives of working mothers in Troy, New York.

Carl Sandburg reads poems and talks poetry, to the (original) music of Skyward.

Poetry Off the Shelf is a production of The Poetry Foundation. It features audio of contemporary poems read by poets and by actors, along with suggested intros and outros. The poems range from :30 to 2:30.

A young Chicago poet explores his understanding of the ridicule his parents faced for being a mixed couple, and how his bi-racial identity has been shaped by his parent's experience.

One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work.

In this piece, Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, asks the question: What if? What if the world were different? This imaginative and poetic piece challenges our current understanding of the world around us.