poetry

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19 Pieces

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Three of Minnesota's finest poets - Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, and Thom Tammaro - offered poetic commentary on life in the time of climate change...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2021
  • Length: 07:36
Caption: Zulfiqar Ali Zulfi, oil on canvas, Credit: ZULFIQAR ALI ZULFI
UMD student Hooriya Habib is at home with her family in Qatar, but she's getting ready to return to Duluth at the end of August. Hooriya speaks En...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 09:51
Caption: "On the Grave of the Giant", Credit: JONATHAN THUNDER. USED WITH PERMISSION.
There aren't a lot of people who write poetry in Ojibwe, nor does Michelle Goose aspire to be one of them. Michelle is on the Native American Stud...

  • Added: Jun 28, 2021
  • Length: 10:11
Caption: A statue of Renaissance poet Torquato Tasso in Sorrento, Italy, his birthplace., Credit: Dave & Margie Hill / Kleerup [via Flickr]
Jenna Soleo Shanks, Assistant Professor of Theater History at UMD, grew up surrounded by her Italian American family on Long Island. Later in life ...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2021
  • Length: 08:37
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The Climate Emergency Poetry Series' next event is May 16, and this, the eighth iteration, is the "out-of-towners" edition. Co-founder (with John...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 09:10
Caption: Ryan Eggold as Dr. Max Goodwin in NBC's "New Amsterdam" talks with staff about climate change as a healthcare emergency, and points out that single-use plastic gloves make up 20% of the medical waste generated in this country., Credit: VIRGINIA SHERWOOD/NBC
Pop culture is doing its part to bring the climate change conversation to our couches. Network shows like NBC's New Amsterdam show characters grap...

  • Added: May 25, 2021
  • Length: 08:17
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The Climate Emergency Poetry Series' next event is May 16, and this, the eighth iteration, is the "out-of-towners" edition. Co-founder (with John...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 09:10
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Phil Fitzpatrick is almost always poetic, even when he's pessimistic. He wrote in a recent column in the Duluth News Tribune: "After years of try...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2021
  • Length: 14:24
Caption: "The Jack Pine" (1917) by Canadian artist Tom Thomson is one of his most well-known works. He dedicated his life to preserving the wilderness, working as a ranger and guide in Algonquin Park before drowning under mysterious circumstances in Canoe Lake., Credit: PUBLIC DOMAIN/WIKICOMMONS
It seemed unfair to have a poetry series celebrating poets who represent home to people who aren't "from here" originally and exclude Canadians. S...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2021
  • Length: 19:23
Caption: "Star People" by Ed Two Eagle, Credit: Seven Council Fires Native Art/Facebook
Jim Rock is a little bit starstruck. For one thing, he's an ethnoarcheoastronomer. For another thing, Dakota people believe they come from the...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 06:55
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Lisa Fitzpatrick speaks a lot of languages. And she loves poetry. In fact, she was the one who originally thought of a poetry feature on KUMD, ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
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When Lise Lunge-Larsen needed help finding contemporary Norwegian poetry, she didn't mess around. She went straight to one of the most famous act...

  • Added: Jul 01, 2020
  • Length: 06:59
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You might be hard-pressed to name famous Finnish philosophers; in fact, people in Finland might be hard-pressed to name famous Finnish philosophe...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 03:55
Caption: Zhang Daqian "Retreat in the Bamboo Grove" (1977), Credit: Christies
If you'd set out to design two language with nothing in common, English and Chinese would be a couple of great candidates.

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 10:12
Caption: Street Art by Alessiob71 in the Italian city of Arquà Petrarca, Credit: freemanphoto/Flickr
UMD student Nick Beck's love affair with Italy and the Italian language began with a dream - a literal dream - about being forced into a Fiat, wh...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 09:31
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Jennifer Brady started speaking Spanish as a child in Denver, so she could play with the other kids in her neighborhood. But it laid the foundat...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 09:10
Caption: "La fenêtre" by Aube Elléouët, 2001, Musée d’Art moderne de Paris, Credit: Paris Musées
Elias Mokole grew up in the United States, but his cultural history is rich and complicated. It includes, as does that of many people, a story of...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 08:29
Caption: Santa Moderna, 1998, Fathi Hassan, acrylic and sand on canvas, Credit: Courtesy of Bencin Art Gallery, Pesaro, Italy
Dr. Ahmed Maamoun was born and raised in Egypt. He is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in UMD's Labovitz School of Business & Economics

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 08:42
Caption: "Invocation," Alejandro Arango, 1988, oil on paper, Credit: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Open Access
(poetry) celebrates the other languages that make up the rich cultural landscape of our Northland, through the medium that communicates it best: ...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2020
  • Length: 04:04