Arts Nov 22 Weekly Poem: ‘Fish Head for Katrina’ Terrance Hayes, a poet and professor at Carnegie Mellon University, won the 2010 National Book Award. Here, he reads a poem from his award-winning volume, "Lighthead."…
Arts Nov 18 Poet Christian Wiman’s ‘Every Riven Thing’ Christian Wiman's new collection of poetry, "Every Riven Thing," is filled with powerfully profound poems, many of which are deeply personal. He had taken a break from writing poetry for a few years, but a recent diagnosis of a rare…
Arts Nov 15 Monday on the NewsHour: Stacy Schiff, Author of ‘Cleopatra: A Life’ She is the stuff of myth and legend, one of history's great heroines: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Subject of Shakespeare, Shaw and, of course, the cinema. But the real Cleopatra was far more…
Arts Nov 15 Weekly Poem: ‘Nikki-Rosa’ Nikki Giovanni is the author of several books of poetry, including most recently "Bicycles: Love Poems." "Nikki-Rosa" is taken from "The 100 Best African American Poems," edited by Giovanni and published in November.
Arts Nov 12 Conversation: Alex Ross’ ‘Listen to This’ New Yorker music critic Alex Ross' new book is "Listen to This." His previous book, "The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the 20th Century," won a National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
Arts Nov 08 Weekly Poem: ‘She Is Awakened by a Hair’ Kim Dower taught poetry for two years at Emerson College, her alma mater, before moving to Los Angeles and founding Kim-from-LA, a literary publicity company that specializes in coaching authors and speakers on how to present themselves to the media.
Arts Nov 05 Jason Moran: Jazz Maestro, MacArthur Fellow Jason Moran is a jazz pianist and composer and one of the winners of this year's MacArthur Fellowships. His latest recording is called "Ten," which came out in June.
Arts Nov 03 Andre Kertesz Captured the Art of Reading "On Reading," an exhibition on view at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, collects photos taken by Hungarian photographer Andre Kertesz over a decades' long career of people in private moments reading books, newspapers or magazines.
Arts Nov 01 Monday’s Art Notes In today's arts and culture headlines, George Hickenlooper, who won an Emmy Award in 1992 for directing "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died at age 47,…
Arts Oct 29 Conversation: Sculptor Elizabeth Turk Elizabeth Turk is a sculptor who can seemingly turn marble into lace. She studied at Scripps College and the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and she has been awarded one…