Frank Bidart reads three poems

Frank Bidart reads his poems "Poem Ending With a Sentence by Heath Ledger," "Writing 'Ellen West,'" and "Guilty of Dust."

This program is presented in partnership with the Poetry Foundation and The Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities.

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