Poetry Dec 08 Weekly Poem: J. Allyn Rosser finds deeper meaning through humor “Mimi’s Trapeze,” a new book by J. Allyn Rosser, starts with a quote by Balzac in the original French. The poet translates it roughly as, “what an appalling condition in which every happy moment depends on an ignorance of some…
Arts Dec 05 In ‘Barefoot Artist,’ Lily Yeh confronts painful past in her journey to heal communities through art “The Barefoot Artist” is a documentary portrait of Lily Yeh, an artist who has worked with communities all over the world, what she calls "broken places." The film follows her life as an artist and an intimate, family history that…
Arts Dec 05 Why the ‘Shakespeare of the F-word’ is reading adults to sleep Adam Mansbach, author of “Go the F*ck to Sleep," explains why Samuel L. Jackson was his first choice for the audio book in this online exclusive.
Poetry Dec 01 Weekly Poem: Remembering Mark Strand Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mark Strand died Saturday from liposarcoma, a cancer in the fat cells. The former U.S. poet laureate, MacArthur fellow and author of more than a dozen books of poetry was 80 years old. We remember him with…
Arts Nov 21 WATCH LIVE: hear from the authors at Miami Book Fair International The 31st year of the annual Miami Book Fair International is underway, with hundreds of thousands of book lovers browsing the stalls set up along the streets of the coastal city in southern Florida. Throughout the weekend Street Fair, PBS…
Arts Nov 20 Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83 Mike Nichols, an award-winning director known for his versatility and genre-blending productions for film, TV and stage, died on Wednesday evening. Over the course of a more than five decades long career, Nichols, known for such hits as “The Graduate,”…
Poetry Nov 17 Weekly Poem: Hoa Nguyen links globalization and goddesses Many of the poems in “Red Juice” deal with a concern for globalization and sustainability. “You can see that progression in the book, that there is more and more urgency around the concern about financial collapse, concern about environmental collapse,…
Arts Nov 14 How ‘Rosewater’ became Jon Stewart’s directorial debut Having delivered pointed political barbs and satire about the media and much more since 1999, Jon Stewart took somewhat of a creative detour two summers ago. The movie "Rosewater" marks the screenwriting and directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host…
Arts Nov 14 Jon Stewart and Maziar Bahari on the importance of satire in the face of darkness "Rosewater," the screenwriting and directorial debut of "The Daily Show" host and executive producer Jon Stewart, retells an ordeal endured by journalist Maziar Bahari, who was held captive in Iran after returning to the country to cover the presidential election…
Arts Nov 07 Photo gallery: Berlin Wall paintings survive as symbols of hope 25 years later Twenty five years ago Sunday, thousands of Berliners jumped on top of the Berlin Wall as a divisive era came to an end. Five years earlier, Kiddy Citny of West Berlin began to paint the wall with two of his…