All Videos Which Poets Informed Your Poetry? “Nobody ever wrote sweeter poetry with a human voice” than the 16th and 17th-century poets. ▸ 3 min — with Robert Pinsky
All Videos How have Russian attitudes toward poetry changed? In Russia is a poet more than a poet? ▸ 6 min — with Yuli Gugolev
All Videos America’s Understanding of the Planet The poet explains why “one of the things that we need to do as Americans at present…involves keeping the imagination of the future alive.” ▸ 9 min — with Jorie Graham
All Videos How Do You Compose? The former Poet Laureate describes how he knows a poem is finished. ▸ 4 min — with Robert Pinsky
All Videos Which poets influenced your poetry? Russian literature and poetry influenced Gugolev’s work. ▸ 2 min — with Yuli Gugolev
All Videos Can You Separate the Politics from the Poet? Pinsky explains why people love cliché. ▸ 5 min — with Robert Pinsky
All Videos Azar Nafisi: What Persian poets influenced your work? Khosro, among others. ▸ 2 min — with Azar Nafisi
All Videos Paul Muldoon Reads “The Loaf” The Pulitzer Prize winning Irish poet reads his poem. ▸ 3 min — with Paul Muldoon
All Videos Billy Collins on Optimism A word from the poet on his hopeless optimism. ▸ 1 min — with Billy Collins
All Videos Arts and Letters A poet is not terribly unhappy that poetry has a small audience. ▸ 4 min — with Billy Collins
All Videos Billy Collins On The Great Poets Coleridge’s “Conversation” poems inspire much of Collins’ work. ▸ 3 min — with Billy Collins
All Videos Cultivating Respect for the Arts The poet is just as responsible for a small audience. ▸ 2 min — with Billy Collins