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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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

Joshua Weiner	Naomi Shihab Nye	Robert Pinsky	Rita Dove	Louise Glück	W.S. Merwin

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