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ENGL462: Poetry in the News

This guide was created to support students in Professor McCabe's spring 2019 capstone course.

Documentary Poetry Resources

It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there.
William Carlos Williams, from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"



In this episode of Poetry Off the Shelf, host Curtis Fox and poet Philip Metres discuss Metres' article on documentary poetry.


In this episode of the Commonplace Podcast, poet Robin Coste Lewis discusses how her work addresses — and corrects — historical narratives, as well as her current documentary project on Arctic explorer Matthew Henson.