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Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Galway Kinnell; Since you asked.., with Galway Kinnell
Part of New Television Workshop.
Pulitzer prize-winning poet, Galway Kinnell, answers questions that students might typically ask a poet. The questions are: When did I start writing? When did I know I wanted to be a poet? Where do I get ideas? What do I write with? What is poetry anyway? Approximate date: 1993
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- Series
- Poetry Breaks
- Program
- Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Galway Kinnell
- Title
Since you asked.., with Galway Kinnell
- Series Description
2-5 minute filler programs with New England area writers reading their poetry. Poets include Martin Espada, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds. Series release date: 1988
- Program Description
This is one of three tapes specifically designed for use in high schools. The finished tape consists of four poems, each briefly introduced by Kinnell. The poems are: “Wait” “Daybreak” “Prayer” “Saint Francis and the Sow”
Following these poems is a segment called “Since you asked...," in which Kinnell answers questions that students might typically ask a poet. The questions are: When did I start writing? When did I know I wanted to be a poet? Where do I get ideas? What do I write with? What is poetry anyway?
The source tapes include multiple takes of the poems and questions.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writing
- Kinnell, Galway, 1927-
- Genres
- Performance in a Studio
- Topics
- Literature
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Galway Kinnell; Since you asked.., with Galway Kinnell,” GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E741EA51CC0B47F792C9A3C98F296DB8.
- MLA: “Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Galway Kinnell; Since you asked.., with Galway Kinnell.” GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E741EA51CC0B47F792C9A3C98F296DB8>.
- APA: Poetry Breaks; Poetry Breaks for Schools and Libraries: Galway Kinnell; Since you asked.., with Galway Kinnell. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E741EA51CC0B47F792C9A3C98F296DB8