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(Excerpted from PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Thursday, April 10, 2008)

Mary Jo Bang Examines Grief's Poetic Form, the Elegy

The NewsHour Poetry Series

Mary Jo Bang is professor of English and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. Her fifth book, "Elegy," which won of the National Book Critics Circle Award, examines the pain and grief following the death of her son. She shares two poems from the collection.

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"I'm Mary Jo Bang and I live in St. Louis, where I teach at Washington University. I'm a professor of English and director of the creative writing program. And I'm also a poet." ...




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The NewsHour Poetry Series

PBS: The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Thursday, April 10, 2008
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