Power of the Word with Bill Moyers
Emmy Award
This series welcomes viewers into the experience of poetry, helping
them to discover that words retain the power to name things honestly,
to touch the human spirit, and to enrich life.
PBS
Eight hours
1994
“One of the most enthralling, exciting – and yes, even sexy – hours
I’ve seen in a long time.”
– Daily News
“Pierces the veneer of the seemingly arcane and serves up a feast
that is delicious.”
– Christian Science Monitor
EPISODES
The Simple Acts of Life
Robert Bly, Galway Kinnell, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz, William Stafford
The Living Language James Autry and Quincy Troup
Ancestral Voices
Mary TallMountain, Garret Kaoru Hongo, Joy Harjo
Voices of Memory
Gerald Stern, Li-Young Lee
Dancing on the Edge of the Road
Stanley Kunitz
Where the Soul Lives
Robert Bly, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin