Jan 27 Weekly Poem: Peter Cole writes about why we read poetry By Victoria Fleischer Peter Cole thinks of all poetry as translation. "Writing one's own poetry, you're translating a nonverbal experience or a less than articulate experience into something much more articulate," he told Art Beat. In addition to writing his own, Cole translates… Continue reading
Jan 27 Daft Punk got ‘Lucky’ at the 2014 Grammys By Victoria Fleischer Daft Punk swept the stage Sunday night at the 56th Grammy Awards. The duo took home many of the coveted awards, including record of the year for "Get Lucky" and album of the year for "Random Access Memories." But the… Continue reading
Jan 24 Watch Juan Gelman, Argentine poet who fought against a military junta, dies at 83 By Jeffrey Brown, PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 24 Remembering Argentine poet Juan Gelman By Victoria Fleischer "The moment he died in Argentina, the entire country came to a halt. It understood that part of its soul had left," Ilan Stavans told chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown. Stevens is a writer and a professor of Latin American… Continue reading
Jan 24 Remembering Robert Burns, national poet of Scotland, with windowpanes of words By Lorna Baldwin Walk around Dumfries, Scotland and you'll see poems in the windowpanes -- faint etchings in some and bold black markings in others. A few are the surviving work of Scotland's national poet, Robert Burns, etched into the glass centuries ago. Continue reading
Jan 21 Watch Supreme Court considers cases on ‘Raging Bull’ authorship, labor union limits By PBS News Hour Continue watching