Lauren Spiro studied American poetry at SUNY Buffalo and is currently a student at Pratt Institute’s School of Information and Library Science. She was an intern with the WNYC Archives during the summer of 2012.
Lauren Spiro appears in the following:
The Poet Speaks: Pastoral Tradition and the Search for Farmer Poets
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Harp music plays as announcer Sy Freed quotes Voltaire, “Poetry is the music of the soul and above all of great and inspired souls.” So begins this episode of The Poet Speaks from 1949, featuring poets A.M. Sullivan and Shaemas O’Sheel.
'Embracing Geography': Does New York City Incubate Poets?
Monday, August 13, 2012
Poet, playwright, and novelist William Packard moderates this 1968 broadcast: Is there a New York poet?
A Paradigm Shift For the Beat Generation
Friday, August 10, 2012
Jack Kerouac famously suggested the Beat Generation is "a swinging group…of new American men intent on joy." Scholars and writers join Kerouac in this 1959 discussion at the Brandeis University Club of New York for a rollicking, witty debate.
