Elisa New
Director and Host, Poetry in America; Director, Verse Video Education; Director, Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University; Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, Harvard University
Elisa New is the director and host of Poetry in America, the director of Verse Video Education, director of the Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University and the Powell M. Cabot Professor of American Literature, emerita, at Harvard University. New created the Poetry in America PBS series to bring poetry into living rooms and onto screens of all kinds. Along with the series, she produces educational materials on American poetry distributed by Harvard University, Amplify Education and Arizona State University. New is the author of “The Regenerate Lyric,” “The Line’s Eye,” “Jacob’s Cane” and “New England Beyond Criticism.”
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