Poetry in America

Poetry in America is a multi-platform digital initiative that brings poetry into classrooms and living rooms around the world. In partnership with HarvardX, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Harvards Division of Continuing Education, Poetry in America offers free online courses for global learners as well as for-credit and professional development courses for undergraduates, graduate students and educational practitioners. Our public television series, also titled Poetry in America, is currently in production with our partners at WGBH Boston. Poetry in America is filmed on location in a rich documentary style. From our base in Cambridge, we follow Allen Ginsberg to San Francisco, Gwendolyn Brooks to the South Side of Chicago, and Emily Dickinson to Amherst. Along the way, scientists and Supreme Court justices, playwrights and journalists, athletes and songwriters, poets and painters, and classroom teachers and their students join us to reflect on essential works of...