Bill Moyers Journal, Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. Central on NPT, can always being counted on for outstanding reporting and genuine perspective on some of the most important issues affecting the world today. Recent episodes have included profiles of Leymah Gbowee, a woman who led her fellow countrywomen to fight for and win peace in war-torn Liberia, and Abigail Disney, who produced the documentary of their struggle and triumph in the award-winning film PRAY THE DEVIL BACK TO HELL; interviews with Robert Reich on health care reform and the economy and Richard Brookhiser and Harvey Kaye on Thomas Paine; and excerpts from the powerful documentary film TORTURING DEMOCRACY.
This week’s topic, though it may not appear so on the surface, is no less contemporary. On the heels of winning this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, W.S. Merwin joins Moyers for a wide-ranging talk about language, his writing process, the natural world, and the insights gleaned from a much-lauded career that’s spanned more than 50 years and 21 volumes of poetry. Merwin’s Pulitzer for his most recent collection, The Shadow of Sirius, marks twice that he has won the award.
Bill Moyers Journal with W.S. Merwin airs Friday, June 26 at 8:00 p.m.
In the meantime, here’s a great clip of Merwin from the Academy of American Poets “The Poet’s View” series.
For more on poetry, be sure to visit PBS’s excellent Poetry Everywhere site.
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