Former Secretary of State John Kerry, director Julie Taymor, composer Elliot Goldenthal, and writer Yusef Komunyakaa talk about the beauty and horror of war. (30 minutes)
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Tue, 4/1 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
The challenges of art and audience across time, space and artistic medium; guests include Cynthia Nixon, Yo-Yo Ma, Jill Johnson and Marie Howe. (30 minutes)
Tue, 4/1 at 1:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Using basketball to understand poetry and poetry to understand basketball; with poet Edward Hirsch, Shaquille O'Neal, Pau Gasol and Shane Battier. (30 minutes)
Tue, 4/1 at 2:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Reflections on "Those Winter Days" by Robert Hayden; with Joe Biden, Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Duckworth. (30 minutes)
Tue, 4/1 at 2:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Two emotional poems by Allen Ginsberg -- the "Hymmnn" from Kaddish and the anti-war "Hum Bom!"; with Bono and Juan Felipe Herrera. (30 minutes)
Tue, 4/1 at 3:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
The rise of the skyscraper and the emergence of the modernist poem; with Frank Gehry, Zhang Xin, poet Robert Polito and student poets from across the U.S. (30 minutes)
Tue, 4/1 at 3:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
A discussion of "Harlem" by Langston Hughes; with Bill Clinton, Herbie Hancock, Sonia Sanchez and students from the Harlem Children's Zone. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 1:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
W.H. Auden's World War II-era "Musee des Beaux Arts"; with Samantha Power, David Brooks and Peter Sacks. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 1:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Robert Pinsky offers his own reflections on his poem "Shirt"; with Johnson Hartig, Betty Halbreich and Stuart Weitzman. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 2:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Poetry's resonance for people in prison; with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Anna Deavere Smith, Reginald Dwayne Betts and Li-Young Lee. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 2:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
A discussion of Galway Kinnell's "The Grey Heron" with E.O. Wilson, Robert Hass, Laura McPhee and Joel Wagner. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 3:00 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
A discussion of "The New Colossus" by Emma Lazarus; with Regina Spektor, Cristina Jiménez, Randi Weingarten, David Rubenstein and Duy Doan. (30 minutes)
Wed, 4/2 at 3:30 pm on Austin PBS WORLD
Exploring San Francisco's history through Marilyn Chin's poem about her youth; guests include Maxine Hong Kingston, tech investor Randy Komisar, and four Bay Area residents. (30 minutes)