Poetry Nov 03 Weekly Poem: Jericho Brown revists ‘The New Testament’ As a child, poet Jericho Brown went to church on Wednesdays and Sundays and “every day in between if we could.” He grew up in an evangelical, fundamentalist family and often sang with the church choir. It’s through that lens…
Arts Oct 29 Photos: These punk hippies prefer horses to cars Photographer Iain McKell spent the last 10 years closely documenting UK’s Horsedrawn “tribe,” a group of nomads who live with their families on wagons. His images are on display at New York's Clic Gallery and collected in the 2011 book,”…
Poetry Oct 27 Weekly Poem: David Roderick ponders the strangeness of the suburbs David Roderick spent a year traveling abroad, in search of poetic inspiration. In Japan, he wrote prose poems, a form he hadn’t previously explored. In Ireland, he became “enamored” with composing ballads, and in Italy, he used art as inspiration…
Arts Oct 17 Protecting South Africa’s artwork of democracy and reconciliation When the Apartheid regime fell in 1994, South Africa established the Constitutional Court. One of the original justices began collecting artwork for the court, with prominent South African artists donating the majority of pieces.
Poetry Oct 13 Weekly Poem: Saskia Hamilton wants you to ‘dream over’ her work “The spirit of the book is a lot about passing through or passing by different lives and landscapes,” says Saskia Hamilton of her new collection, "Corridor."…
Arts Oct 09 French writer Patrick Modiano wins 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature French writer Patrick Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature this morning. The Nobel Academy said they awarded Modiano the award “For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the…
Arts Oct 08 Photographers sneak into London’s underground world A dentist, a bus driver and a surgeon pop open a manhole cover and shimmy into the opening, abseiling into the depths of London's sewer system. They're not authorized to do this, mind you, but they're determined. You see, they,…
Arts Sep 30 Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell delights masses at DC subway concert Back in 2007, pedestrians hurried by without realizing that the busker playing at the entrance to a Washington, D.C., Metro stop was none other than the Grammy-winning Joshua Bell. Today, Bell set up at the entrance of Union Station, but…
Arts Sep 24 Amtrak Residency offers 24 writers a desk during a long train ride For some, writing is best tackled in solitude. For others, linguistic discoveries are best made with a little ambient noise in the background. Today, Amtrak named 24 writers who will get free access to the sounds of human chatter and…