Week 10: After 1945 – An Introduction

American Literature post 1945 from Marta Werbanowska

Allen Ginsberg reading “America”

Sylvia Plath reading “Lady Lazarus”

Blythe Danner reading “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

Frank O’Hara reading “The Day Lady Died” – film fragment providing context for the poem

Gwendolyn Brooks reading “We Real Cool.” Also, please see the wonderful animation + musical score for the poem on Poetry Foundation’s website:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/video/142394/we-real-cool

Seamus Heaney reading “Death of a Naturalist”

A musical and visual interpretation of Ted Hughes’s “Wind”

An animated interpretation of Wole Soyinka’s “Telephone Conversation”