Poetry Radio Project
Marketplace looks at business and the economy from poets' perspectives.
Finding the poetry in finance
Katy Lederer found inspiration for the poems in her latest book from an unusual source -- finance. Tess Vigeland speaks with the former hedge fund recruiter about her poetry. (12/24/2008)
Lost for words? Try a web poet
After people kept asking Danielle McDonald to pen personalized poems, she thought she could make a little cash doing it. Spend a few bucks at Secretwriter.org and she'll craft a sonnet in your name. Sean Cole reports. (02/12/2009)
A working man's poet
Poet Philip Levine used to work the line at GM, which may have inspired his poetry about the blue-collar masses. Kai Ryssdal speaks with the Pulitzer Prize winner about how his experiences shaped his poetic works. (04/20/2009)
Poem: 'Smart' by Shel Silverstein
Many of you nominated "Smart" by Shel Silverstein, a poem about kids and money, to be read on air. Ms. Simms' 4th, 5th and 6th graders in Fullerton, Calif., read the poem. (04/27/2009)
Poetry in work
There's a lot of poetry in work -- people who do it, under do it, and can't afford not to do it. Poet David Tucker reads his poem "Downsizing," Pedro Pietri reads his poem "Telephone Booth Number 905 ½," and poet and columnist Katha Pollitt reads Sarah Cleghorn's "The Golf Links." (05/04/2009)
A poem of loss for the economy
We've been asking our listeners to send in their favorite poems about money and the economy. Elizabeth Dodge suggested Elizabeth Bishop's poem "One Art," a piece about loss that's helped her put the economic collapse in context. (05/11/2009)
American Public Media and the Poetry Foundation have launched the Poetry Radio Project in an effort to bring poets' unique views to APM programs, including Marketplace, Performance Today, Speaking of Faith, The Story, and The Splendid Table. Through features and interviews with poets, the project seeks to enrich and deepen people's perspectives on global events and American culture, and to expand their engagement with contemporary and classical poetry.
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