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John Dorr / EZTV Timeline ▶  Lannan Literary Series

Lannan Literary Series
Lannan Literary Series
(1988 – 1991)

John Dorr and Lewis MacAdams make 26 one-hour documentaries about poets for the Lannan Literary Series. Poets include Amiri Baraka, Lucille Clifton, Robert Creeley, Victor Hernández Cruz, Carolyn Forché, Carlos Fuentes, Allen Ginsberg, Louise Glück, Joy Harjo, Galway Kinnell, Philip Levine, W. S. Merwin, Czeslaw Milosz, Sharon Olds, Octavio Paz, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Gary Snyder, and Ann Waldman.

John and Lewis also make the documentaries Where Poems Come From, during which fifteen major poets read and discuss the origins of their poetry, and The Battle of The Bards, a documentary about the World Heavyweight Poetry Championship with play-by-play by Andrei Codrescu.