May 25, 2012  |   Pulitzer prize-winning author Stephen Greenblatt reads an excerpt of "The Swerve."

May 4, 2012  |   Jeffrey Brown talks to singer-songwriter John Legend and producer Harry Weinger about Marvin Gaye's hit record, "What's Going On," on its 40th anniversary.

April 12, 2012  |   Naomi Shihab Nye reads two poems: "Hello Palestine" and "Cinco de Mayo."

March 14, 2012  |   Katherine Larson won the 2010 Yale Younger Poets Prize and the 2012 Kate Tufts Discovery Award for her book "Radial Symmetry." She is also the recipient of a Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship.

December 21, 2011  |   On Wednesday's NewsHour, Mark Doty read his poem, "Messiah (Christmas Portions)." We'll post that poem here later this evening. He shared another of poems with us, below, called "A Display of Mackerel."

November 29, 2011  |   Jeffrey Brown recently sat down with Rollins when he was in Washington to perform at the Kennedy Center to talk about his life as a saxophonist and composer. In this excerpt of their conversation, Rollins talks about what other jazz greats have meant to him.

July 14, 2011  |   More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with conductor and pianist Leon Fleisher.

July 8, 2011  |   More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with historian David McCullough, author of "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris."

May 16, 2011  |   Tracy K. Smith is the author of three collections of poetry: "Life on Mars" (Graywolf Press, 2011); Duende (Graywolf, 2007), winner of the 2006 James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets; and "The Body's Question" (Graywolf, 2003), winner of the 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

February 28, 2011  |   More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with "Parazit" duo Kambiz Hosseini and Saman Arbabi.

December 6, 2010  |   Performances by Greater Mount Calvary's Men of Valor and Greater Zion Church Family's Voices of Destiny at Verizon's How Sweet the Sound.

October 28, 2010  |   In this extended interview, Jeffrey Brown talks to Esperanza Spalding about the inspiration to her song, "Little Fly."

October 8, 2010  |   Jeffrey Brown's extended interview with Jennifer Higdon and Hilary Hahn's performance of Bach's Sarabande in D minor.

August 16, 2010  |   Williams Powers' book, "Hamlet's Blackberry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age," looks to what Powers calls the "best place to find sanity": the past.

July 30, 2010  |   International pop star Sting is in the midst of an American and world tour with his 'band'. This summer, that means a 45-piece band made up from members of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, who have been helping him re-create his past hits with a very different sound. He has a new album called "Symphonicities."

June 18, 2010  |   A roundup of arts notes.

June 16, 2010  |   Performer and choreographer Maurice Hines had mostly retired his dancing shoes, until an opportunity came knocking at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage.

February 23, 2010  |   Roger Rosenblatt's "Making Toast" chronicles how after the sudden death of his 38-year-old daughter, he and his wife Ginny moved in with their son-in-law to help raise their three young grandchildren.

January 7, 2010  |   Wednesday on the PBS NewsHour, a conversation with Rocco Landesman, the former Broadway Producer who became the chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts this past August.