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Of Poetry and Pittsburgh: A Conversation with Samuel Hazo

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Samuel Hazo is a lifelong Pittsburgher, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Pennsylvania’s first Poet Laureate. In this episode, Samuel describes his earliest memories of Pittsburgh, what it was like growing up in Squirrel Hill and East Liberty (where he was a Cub Scout), and attending Notre Dame in the 1940s. He also shares his memories of running the International Poetry Forum and tells Elise about the people he brought to Pittsburgh for poetry readings, including Grace Kelly and Gregory Peck.

His introduction to “cosmopolitan Catholicism”

Poetry as a part of public life

His time in the marines

The importance of memory

His work at the International Poetry Forum

His memories of Grace Kelly

Love and risk

How to bring poetry to the public

Samuel Hazo’s website

Piers Plowman

The Divine Comedy

Chaucer

Christopher Dawson

Francois Mauriac

“The Poem” by W.S. Merwin

“One-Liners or Less” by Samuel Hazo

International Poetry Forum

W.H. Auden

Anne Sexton

Gwendolyn Brooks

Seamus Heaney

Billy Collins

Octavio Paz

Naomi Shihab Nye

W.S. Merwin

Joyce Carol Oates

Derek Walcott

Eugene McCarthy

Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

Richard Pasco

Archibald MacLeish

John Donne

Gregory Peck

William Butler Yeats

Sally Wiggin

  continue reading

94 episodes

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Samuel Hazo is a lifelong Pittsburgher, a finalist for the National Book Award, and Pennsylvania’s first Poet Laureate. In this episode, Samuel describes his earliest memories of Pittsburgh, what it was like growing up in Squirrel Hill and East Liberty (where he was a Cub Scout), and attending Notre Dame in the 1940s. He also shares his memories of running the International Poetry Forum and tells Elise about the people he brought to Pittsburgh for poetry readings, including Grace Kelly and Gregory Peck.

His introduction to “cosmopolitan Catholicism”

Poetry as a part of public life

His time in the marines

The importance of memory

His work at the International Poetry Forum

His memories of Grace Kelly

Love and risk

How to bring poetry to the public

Samuel Hazo’s website

Piers Plowman

The Divine Comedy

Chaucer

Christopher Dawson

Francois Mauriac

“The Poem” by W.S. Merwin

“One-Liners or Less” by Samuel Hazo

International Poetry Forum

W.H. Auden

Anne Sexton

Gwendolyn Brooks

Seamus Heaney

Billy Collins

Octavio Paz

Naomi Shihab Nye

W.S. Merwin

Joyce Carol Oates

Derek Walcott

Eugene McCarthy

Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco)

Richard Pasco

Archibald MacLeish

John Donne

Gregory Peck

William Butler Yeats

Sally Wiggin

  continue reading

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