Arts Feb 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Centuries of Ashes’ Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Politics Feb 01 Monday’s Headlines: Obama to Submit $3.83 Trillion Budget President Barack Obama plans to send Congress a $3.83 trillion budget that calls for more money to fight high unemployment and cuts in spending for government programs to reduce a projected record deficit this year. President Obama's plan would raise…
Arts Jan 28 J.D. Salinger Dies at Age 91 J.D. Salinger, the author of the classic modern novel about teenage rebellion, "The Catcher in the Rye," has died. He was 91 and had lived for decades in isolation in a small, remote house in Cornish, N.H.
Arts Jan 28 NEA Chairman Rocco Landesman Answers Your Questions I recently had the chance to talk with new NEA chairman Rocco Landesman for an interview we aired earlier this month, and invited you to send us your questions and comments for him. We compiled them and put them to…
Arts Jan 25 Weekly Poem: ‘Ports of Sorrow’ Patrick Sylvain is a Haitian-American writer, essayist and poet, and instructor of Haitian language and culture at Brown University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
Arts Jan 12 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Philip Levine At 82, Philip Levine is author of some 20 volumes of verse and is one of the nation’s most honored poets with a Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards. But he started life in Detroit, working in auto plants…
Arts Jan 11 Weekly Poem: ‘Our Valley’ Philip Levine is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently "News of the World" (2009). The poem above, "Our Valley," originally appeared in the November 2008 issue of Poetry.
Arts Jan 08 Conversation: Terry Teachout, Author of ‘Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong’ Louis Armstrong is the subject of the biography, "Pops," by Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal drama critic and Commentary Magazine cultural critic.
Arts Jan 07 Conversation: The Latest in E-Readers In another in our series, "The Next Chapter of Reading," Jeffrey Brown talks to Wired staff writer Priya Ganapati, who is at the International Consumer Electronics Show, about what she's seeing in the latest e-reader products.
Arts Jan 04 Monday on the NewsHour: Judith Jamison and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Watch more of the interview with Judith Jamison, performance pieces and a 1990 segment about her by former NewsHour correspondent Charlayne Hunter-Gault.