Verse Video Education Inc

POETRY IN AMERICA, SEASON FIVE [VERSE VIDEO EDUCATION REQUESTS $700,000 FROM THE NEH MEDIA PROJECTS PROGRAM TO SUPPORT A PORTION OF EXPENSES ACROSS THE EIGHT EPISODES THAT WILL MAKE UP SEASON FIVE OF THE PUBLIC TELEVISION SERIES POETRY IN AMERICA. THE SERIES GATHERS POETS, DISTINGUISHED PERSONS IN OTHER FIELDS, AND INDIVIDUALS REPRESENTING A RANGE OF AGES, PROFESSIONS, AND BACKGROUNDS TO EXPLORE AMERICAN POETRY AS A CENTRAL PART OF AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY, EXPOSING VIEWERS TO THE IDEAS?AND IDEALS?THAT AMERICAN POETS HAVE ARTICULATED, THE DISILLUSIONMENTS AND DISAPPOINTMENTS THEY HAVE CHRONICLED, AND HOW AMERICAN POETRY HAS NOT ONLY REFLECTED, BUT ALSO SHAPED, THE RICHNESS AND DIVERSITY OF AMERICAN CULTURE, FROM ITS EARLIEST DAYS INTO OUR TIME.]

POETRY IN AMERICA, SEASON 4: "MORE PERFECT UNION" EPISODE SEQUENCE [VERSE VIDEO EDUCATION REQUESTS $300,000 FROM NEH SHORT DOCUMENTARIES PROGRAM TO SUPPORT THE COMPLETION OF FIVE ?MORE PERFECT UNION? EPISODES IN SEASON 4 OF THE PUBLIC TELEVISION SHOW POETRY IN AMERICA. THESE EPISODES WILL FORM A SEQUENCE WITHIN THE SEASON?S EIGHT-EPISODE LINEUP. EACH EPISODE WILL FOCUS ON AN AMERICAN POEM THAT IS PREOCCUPIED WITH THE STORIES THAT WE AS A NATION TELL OURSELVES. THE POEMS IN THESE EPISODES REPRESENT A RANGE OF AMERICAN STYLES, TRADITIONS, AND COMMUNITIES, BUT THEY SHARE A RIGOROUS COMBINATION OF CELEBRATORY AND INTERROGATORY CONSCIOUSNESS, FOREGROUNDING QUESTIONS OF HISTORICAL, CIVIC, SOCIAL, AND AESTHETIC SIGNIFICANCE.]

POETRY IN AMERICA SEASON THREE: "MORE PERFECT UNION" EPISODE SEQUENCE