Arts Aug 08 Wednesday on the NewsHour: Olympic Poetry Poet Priscila Uppal of Canadian Athletes Now reads "Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder."…
Poetry Aug 08 Priscila Uppal Reads ‘Obsessive Compulsive Cycling Disorder’ Writer and professor Priscila Uppal is serving as "Poet in Residence" for Canadian Athletes Now, a non-profit group supporting Canada's athletes at the 2012 London Olympics.
Arts Aug 03 Conversation: Marcus Samuelsson on His New Memoir, ‘Yes, Chef’ Ray Suarez talks to celebrity chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, whose new memoir, the New York Times bestseller "Yes, Chef," traces his life and career, beginning with his birth in Ethiopia and adoption to a Swedish family, a move that…
Arts Jul 31 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Walter Dean Myers Tuesday on the NewsHour, Jeffrey Brown talks to award-winning author Walter Dean Myers, the Library Of Congress' National Ambassador For Young People's Literature.
Arts Jul 27 Conversation: Lauren Greenfield, Director of ‘The Queen of Versailles’ The building of Versailles, not the one in France, but one in Orlando, Fla., which was set to become the largest home in the nation, is the starting point for a documentary film titled, "The Queen of Versailles." Jeffrey Brown…
Nation Jul 20 12 Dead, 59 Wounded in Colorado Theater Shooting; Suspect in Custody Tammi Stevens is overcome with emotion as she picks up her son, Jacob Stevens, outside Gateway High School in Aurora, Colo., on Friday. Jacob was a witness to the shooting inside the Aurora movie theater where 12 people were killed.
Arts Jul 16 Weekly Poem: ‘Quarantine’ Eavan Boland is one of Ireland's most prominent poets. Her poems often examine the lives of women, looking at larger cultural issues through the lens of the details of everyday life. She's published more than 10 books of verse, most…
Arts Jul 13 Conversation: What Makes Some Arts Buildings Successful and Others Not? Anyone paying attention to American cultural life has noticed a boom of art-centered buildings in cities across the country. A new study by the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago takes what it builds as the first systematic…