Arts Jan 31 Weekly Poem: ‘Ex Libris’ Megan Harlan's first book of poems, "Mapmaking," won the 2009 John Ciardi Prize. Her poems have appeared in several journals, including American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, TriQuarterly, Prairie Schooner, AGNI Online and elsewhere.
Arts Jan 27 Conversation: Kevin MacDonald, Director of ‘Life in a Day’ For "Life in a Day," a 90-minute documentary film, Kevin MacDonald, with the help of a team of researchers, pieced together real-life footage selected from more than 80,000 YouTube submissions (which added up to over 4,500 hours of tape) all…
Arts Jan 25 Conversation: Frank Gehry’s New World Center Opens in Miami The New World Center in Miami is set to open Tuesday. Designed by architect Frank Gehry, the building will be the new home for the New World Symphony. Jeffrey Brown talks to the architect.
Arts Jan 24 Weekly Poem: ‘Together’ Charles Wright was born in Pickwick Dam, Tenn., in 1935 and was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa. He has written several books of poems, including most recently, "Outtakes" (2010); "Sestets: Poems" (2010); and the forthcoming "Bye-and-Bye:…
Arts Jan 21 Conversation: Sundance Film Festival This year's Sundance Film Festival runs from Jan. 20 to 30. Jeffrey Brown talks to two people who work year-round to put it together: John Cooper, the festival director; and Trevor Groth, the director of programming.
Arts Jan 17 Weekly Poem: From ‘Fugue’ Elizabeth Alexander was born in Harlem, raised in Washington, D.C., and attended Yale University, where she now teaches African American Studies. She is the author of six books of poems, including most recently, "Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010."…
Arts Jan 10 Weekly Poem: ‘The Winter’s Wife’ Jennifer Chang is the author of "The History of Anonymity" (Georgia, 2008). A Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Virginia, she co-chairs the advisory board of Kundiman, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support and promotion of Asian…
Arts Jan 04 The World According to Kal The work of Kevin "KAL" Kallaugher, the Economist's editorial cartoonist, is the subject of an exhibit at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco.
Arts Jan 03 Weekly Poem: ‘Boy in Blue’ Recently, Kwame Dawes teamed up with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to examine the earthquake in Haiti through poetry. Look for a report on the NewsHour about that project in the coming days.
Arts Dec 27 Weekly Poem: ‘Burning the Christmas Greens’ Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal poets of the Imagist movement.