United States of Poetry

How it feels

This is a television anthology series that features over 60 poets performing their work. It includes Nobel laureates, rappers, and children, showing the variety of American poetry in the mid 1990s.

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What happens

United States of Poetry (USOP) was a five-part American television series created for PBS. The series' first aired in February 1995. USOP was created and produced by Joshua Blum, the founder of Washington Square Films, and New York poet Bob Holman and director, Mark Pellington. The anthology was composed of five half-hour segments and featured more than 60 poets including three Nobel Prize winners, rappers, slammers, cowboys, and a seven-year-old jump-rope artist. It was accompanied by a book published by Abrams Books and a soundtrack album with music by tomandandy issued by Mouth Almighty Records, under Mercury Records. The book contained an extra sixth section for poems that did not make the series. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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