Poets & Presidents: The Kennedy White House
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Channel: Kennedy Center Education Digital Learning · 2018 · Education
President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy believed in the power and value of poetry for their children. In The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and A Family of Poems: My Favorite Poetry for Children, Caroline Kennedy has gathered together poems about nature, heroism, adventure, and imagination by celebrated poets Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Nikki Grimes, and Carl Sandburg; poems her parents loved and read to her during her childhood. In this program, introduced by Caroline Kennedy as part of the Kennedy Center's The Presidency of John F. Kennedy: A 50th Anniversary Celebration, contemporary poets Marilyn Singer, Marilyn Nelson, Naomi Shihab Nye, and Charles R. Smith Jr read and discuss their poems and show how these important themes are continued in their work today (recorded in 2011 at George Washington University in Washington, DC).
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