The Poet and the Poem

Radio interview show

Radio show

The Poet and the PoemGenre| Poetry

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Running time| ca. 50 min.
Country of origin| United States
Language(s)| English
Hosted by| Grace Cavalieri
Recording studio| Washington, DC
Original release| present
Audio format| Stereophonic
Website| Poet and the Poem
Podcast| Podcast

The Poet and the Poem is an hour-long radio interview program hosted by Grace Cavalieri featuring with leading poets and sponsored by the Library of Congress and the Witter Bynner Foundation.

## History

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The program was started in 1977 by the poet and playwright Grace Cavalieri. The program was first broadcast from WPFW in Washington, DC. Cavalieri brought the program to the Library of Congress in 1997.[1][2] The programs archives are stored at the Gelman Library at George Washington University[3]

## Featured interviews

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The show regularly features interviews with writers from across the country. Poets featured have included Abhay K, Karren LaLonde Alenier, Francisco Aragón, Margaret Atwood, Sandra Beasley, Lucille Clifton, Cornelius Eady, Forrest Gander, Allen Ginsberg, Terrance Hayes, Major Jackson, June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Richard McCann, E. Ethelbert Miller, Naomi Shihab Nye, Linda Pastan, Kim Roberts, Henry Taylor, Emma Trelles, David Tucker, Dan Vera, and Alice Walker.[4][5][3]

Given the program's longevity and its connection to the Library of Congress, Cavalieri has the distinction of having interviewed the most sitting poets laureate including Gwendolyn Brooks, Billy Collins, Rita Dove, Donald Hall, Ted Kooser, Stanley Kunitz, Howard Nemerov, Philip Levine, Robert Hass, Robert Pinsky, Kay Ryan and Charles Simic Mark Strand, and Richard Wilbur.[3] The program has also featured interviews with the Witter Bynner Fellowship winners.

## Broadcast

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Recorded and engineered at the Library of Congress, the program is broadcast on public radio stations across the United States through the Public Radio Exchange and is also available as a free podcast from the Library of Congress website.

## References

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1. ^ Library of Congress press release, 2007 July
2. ^ "About Poetpoem". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
3. ^ a b c "GW Libraries at the George Washington University". www.gwu.edu. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
4. ^ "Poetpoem". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 September 2016.
5. ^ "Poetpoem2". www.loc.gov. Retrieved 15 September 2016.

## External links

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* Program page on the Library of Congress website