Poetry Sep 25 Death of Kofi Awoonor in Nairobi Attack Is ‘Great Loss’ for Ghana and Poetry Kofi Awoonor, a Ghanaian poet, diplomat and academic, was among the victims murdered in a terrorist attack at a shopping mall in Nairobi. Awoonor's nephew Kwame Dawes, another renowned poet, was traveling with his uncle to attend a literary festival…
Arts Aug 05 Monday on the NewsHour: Chris Thile Makes Plucky Move From Bluegrass to Bach // Musician Chris Thile performed for the PBS NewsHour at the Rockwood Music Hall in Manhattan. Here he plays the final movement of Bach Sonata #1 in G-minor. Chris Thile is a musician…
Arts Jul 29 On the Road, Photographers Revisit the American Landscape “Autolandscape, Utah,” photo by Elaine Mayes, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. View a slide show with more photographs from the exhibit, “Landscapes in Passing.” Elaine Mayes drove from San Francisco to Massachusetts in 1971 to document the…
Arts Jul 10 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Poet Liao Yiwu Liao Yiwu was in his early 30s when he was arrested for writing and performing a poem about the brutality of the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989. A new memoir about his time in prison called "For a Song and…
Arts Jul 10 Weekly Poem: ‘Massacre’ By Liao Yiwu, Translated by Wenguang Huang (Composed on the morning of June 4, 1989) Dedicated to those who were killed on June 4, 1989 Dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution Leap! Howl! Fly! Run! Freedom feels…
Arts Jun 21 Conversation: Novelist Colum McCann, Author of ‘TransAtlantic’ Frederick Douglass traveling through Ireland in 1845 to stir up support for his abolitionist cause. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Sen. George Mitchell in 1998 trying to forge a peace treaty in Northern Ireland. Those actual…
Arts Jun 12 Around the Nation Watch five arts and culture videos from PBS and public media partners around the nation.
Arts Jun 11 A Bone to Pick With Genocide? Try a Million For 48 hours, the grass on the National Mall disappeared underneath a million white and grey "bones," a symbolic mass grave on the footsteps of the U.S. Capitol. The One Million Bones project is a public art installation created to…
Arts Jun 10 Hit the Road, Poet Laureate: Trethewey Partners With NewsHour for Second Term The Library of Congress reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to a second term on Monday. Though she is not the first in her position to receive the honor of an extended post, the announcement does have special meaning for…
Arts Jun 10 Weekly Poem: Charles Hood Reads ‘Skype’ Charles Hood is the author of "South x South" (Ohio University Press), winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press). He has been the recipient of a…