New Letters on the Air special: The importance of poetry after 9/11

Published September 11, 2023 at 2:44 PM EDT

Chelsey Cathcart, of Dublin, Ohio, reads the wall at First Responders Park to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Sunday, Sept. 11, 2011, in Hilliard, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jay LaPrete)

This New Letters on the Air special features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye; the late pacifist poet Adrienne Rich; and Israeli poet and WWII veteran, Yehuda Amichai. This program originally aired in 2002.