Jun 18 Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict For centuries, Pashtun women have traded stories, feelings and life wisdom in the form of two-line oral poems called landays. Eliza Griswold, a journalist and poet herself, traveled to Afghanistan to learn more about daily life there through the modern… Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict… Continue watching
Jun 18 Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life By Meredith P. Garretson Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been… Continue reading
Jun 18 Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry By Molly Finnegan, Mary Jo Brooks Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, narrates a… Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life… Continue watching
Jun 17 Weekly Poem: ‘From the Grandiloquent Dictionary’ By Molly Finnegan Hailey Leithauser's poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies. Her first book, "Swoop," won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. That collection will be published in… Continue reading
Jun 13 Thursday on the NewsHour: Novelist Walter Mosley By Molly Finnegan Author Walter Mosley has written more than 40 books. His new mystery novel, "Little Green," revives one of the best-known, longest-running characters in American literature. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, Mosley's fictional private eye, was last seen driving off a cliff. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch In ‘Little Green,’ an Old, Familiar Character Makes an Easy Comeback In 'Little Green,' an Old, Familiar Character Makes an Easy Comeback… Continue watching
Jun 13 Watch Though Acceptance for Gay Americans Is Growing, Discrimination Persists Though Acceptance for Gay Americans Is Growing, Discrimination Persists… Continue watching
Jun 12 Around the Nation By Tom LeGro Watch five arts and culture videos from PBS and public media partners around the nation. Continue reading