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Poetry and the American People: Reading, Voice, and Publication in the 19th and 20th Centuries
The archived edition of the April 4th, 2000 cybercast of a symposium in the Mumford Room of the Library of Congress, Madison Building. The event was sponsored by the Library of Congress, the Academy of American Poets, and the Poetry Society of America, with additional support from Borders.
Selections and Speakers

[Time: 1 hour and 18 minutes]
Cole
Hall
Sicherman
Rubin
John Y. Cole
Moderator,
Library of Congress
David D. Hall
Harvard Divinity School
Barbara Sicherman
Trinity College
Joan Shelley Rubin
Department of History,
University of Rochester

[Time: 1 hour and 30 minutes]
Gifford
Cmiel
Breslin
Pinsky
Prosser Gifford
Moderator,
Library of Congress
Kenneth Cmiel
Department of History,
University of Iowa
Paul Breslin
Department of English,
Northwestern University
Robert Pinsky
Poet Laureate,
Library of Congress

[Time: 1 hour and 4 minutes]
Gifford
Pinsky
Dietz
Anderson
Prosser Gifford
Moderator,
Library of Congress
Robert Pinsky
Poet Laureate,
Library of Congress
Maggie Dietz
Project director
Juanita Anderson
Executive producer

[Time: 1 hour and 19 minutes]
Cole
Ward
Boyers
Morris
Shoemaker
John Y. Cole
Moderator,
Library of Congress
Jerry W. Ward
Tougaloo College
Robert Boyers
Editor
Salmagundi
Leslie Morris
Harvard College
Library
Jack Shoemaker
Director
Counterpoint Publishing

[Time: 1 hour and 21 minutes]
Weiner
Nye
Pinsky
Dove
Glick
Merwin
Joshua Weiner
Naomi Shihab Nye
Robert Pinsky
Rita Dove
Louise Glück
W.S. Merwin

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