Jan 09 Watch Rafael Campo’s student physicians embrace poetry to hone art of healing By PBS News Hour Rafael Campo's student physicians embrace poetry to hone art of healing… Continue watching
Jan 09 Mikhail Baryshnikov wields his ‘chutzpah’ in a new Chekhov adaptation By Victoria Fleischer As a schoolboy in the Soviet Union, Mikhail Baryshnikov grew up reading the works of celebrated Russian writer Anton Chekhov. A few of those short stories resonated with the legendary dancer. Chekov, Baryshnikov explained, "puts his characters in strange situations… Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch For Baryshnikov, theater is a connection of ‘heart and mind’ By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Jan 08 The private thoughts of a public man: the ambitions and insecurities of literary giant Norman Mailer By Victoria Fleischer J. Michael Lennon, author of "Norman Mailer: A Double Life," spoke to chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown about the ambitions and insecurities of the literary giant. Norman Mailer had quite a public persona. He was a Pulitzer Prize… Continue reading
Jan 07 For these medical students, poetry nurtures the soul By Anne Azzi Davenport // Kai Huang, Shara Yurkiewicz and Samyukta Mullangi are three of Dr. Rafael Campo's students, who are learning poetry to supplement their medical training. Chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with three Harvard medical students to talk about… Continue reading
Jan 07 Rafael Campo uses his stethoscope to explore rhythms of poetry By Anne Azzi Davenport // Rafael Campo explores poetry through his experience as a doctor. He teaches this practice to his medical students out of the belief that healing is more than just knowing how to respond to symptoms. Rafael Campo is a… Continue reading
Jan 06 Weekly Poem: Ron Padgett reads ‘Spots’ By Victoria Fleischer Spots And so once again Father Time and said to Mother Nature, "Mother, put a few more of those brown spots on him, please," and so she did, dutifully and without malice she placed them here and there among the… Continue reading
Jan 01 Watch Newly released recordings reveal Beatles before they inspired mania Newly released recordings reveal Beatles before they inspired mania… Continue watching
Jan 01 One man’s mission to restore The Beatles’ BBC recordings By Arts Desk The Beatles in 1965. Photo courtesy of the Michael Ochs Archive/Corbis You might be surprised to learn that all of the The Beatles' BBC performances were not well archived. In fact, Kevin Howlett, a BBC radio producer and… Continue reading
Dec 31 Watch Scholar reflects on poetic odyssey to bring medieval Persian verse to the West Scholar reflects on poetic odyssey to bring medieval Persian verse to the West… Continue watching