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Margaret Myers is the former Digital News Editor for PBS NewsHour. She is a former editor for ESPN.com. She also led the features department at the Amarillo Globe-News in west Texas.

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Arts Sep 18

Jennifer Michael Hecht Reads ‘Split’

Jennifer Michael Hecht is a poet, historian, philosopher and author. She is the author of several books of nonfiction including "Doubt: A History" and "The Happiness Myth." Her latest collection of poetry is titled "Who Said." She teaches at The…

Arts Sep 17

Mary Jo Salter’s ‘Nothing By Design’ a Mixture of Darkness and Whimsy

"Nothing By Design," the new collection from poet Mary Jo Salter, is a mix of light and dark. In it, Salter explores the end of a marriage, the loss of friends, having fun with MFA programs and responding to "The…

Poetry Sep 17

Mary Jo Salter’s ‘Nothing By Design’ a Mixture of Darkness and Whimsy

"Nothing By Design," the new collection from poet Mary Jo Salter, is a mix of light and dark. In it, Salter explores the end of a marriage, the loss of friends, having fun with MFA programs and responding to "The…

Poetry Sep 16

Meena Alexander Reads Her Poem, ‘Experimental Geography’

Meena Alexander's latest collection of poems, "Birthplace with Buried Stones," will be published Sept. 30, 2013. Alexander is an English professor at the City University of New York and teaches at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of…

Poetry Sep 12

Poetry Project Helps Dementia Patients Live in the Moment

In our new series, "Where Poetry Lives," Natasha Trethewey, poet laureate of the United States, and Jeffrey Brown spends time at the Alzheimer's Poetry Project in Brooklyn. The international program works with people with dementia to try to trigger memory…

Arts Aug 30

Nobel Laureate, World Famous Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74

Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who garnered critical acclaim while harvesting…

Arts Apr 24

Charles Bradley bares his screaming soul

If you go to a Charles Bradley concert, prepare to get hugged...by Charles Bradley. He does it every time. After the show -- after the screaming and the sweat -- he steps down from the stage, arms outstretched, and embraces…

Science Feb 20

Sins of the Sons

It’s a parent’s nightmare. Your child’s school has been the scene of a mass shooting. But what if your child was the shooter? Miles O’Brien meets the father of a rampage killer and a mother who worries her son might…

Poetry Dec 25

Greek Poets Muse Austerity Measures: ‘We’ll Hawk the Parthenon to Buy Our Bread’

We examine the Greek economic crisis from a different angle -- from the perspective of poets, and through the prism of history, modern and ancient. Jeffrey Brown talks to poet and classicist A.E. Stallings, a resident of Athens for more…

Nation Sep 01

Why race matters

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