Documents tagged "Seasons Two"
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HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029517.txt
The document is a letter from Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University's Department of English, inviting someone to be a featured guest on the series Poetry in America. The series features distinguished guests including Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Cynthia Nixon, Shaquille O'Neal, Yo Yo Ma, Samantha Power, Herbie Hancock, John McCain, Nas, Angela Duckworth, Bono, Regina Spektor, Frank Gehry, Stuart Weitzman, E.O. Wilson, and many others. The poem to be read and interpreted together is by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds called "The Language of the Brag" which compares feats of athletic prowess and poetic prowess to childbirth.
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029298.txt
The document is a letter from Elisa New, Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature at Harvard University's Department of English, to Ms. Knowles-Carter. The letter invites her to be a featured guest on Poetry in America, a series that airs on public television stations and streams via Amazon Prime and other services. The poem they would read together is by contemporary poet Evie Shockley called "you can say that again, billie" which speaks back to Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" and evokes a history of gender and race in the American South. Elisa New mentions that Ms. Knowles-Carter is the ideal reader for this poem.