Jul 01 Weekly Poem: ‘Inside The Good Idea’ By Victoria Fleischer Matthea Harvey is the author of "Modern Life," a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and is a contributing editor to jubilat, Meatpaper, and BOMB. Continue reading
Jul 01 Amid Turmoil, American ‘Prince’ David Hallberg Returns to Russia By Molly Finnegan // In his 2011 role as the prince in Sleeping Beauty, David Hallberg became the first American principal dancer at the Bolshoi, the world’s largest ballet company and Russian cultural epicenter since its founding in 1776. Continue reading
Jul 01 Watch A Giant Leap to the Russian Stage for American Ballet Dancer Hallberg By PBS News Hour, Jeffrey Brown Ballet star David Hallberg was the first American principal dancer to join the historically insular Bolshoi Theater in 2011. Jeffrey Brown talks to the dancer about his return to the Russian stage for the first time since an acid attack… Continue watching
Jun 25 Watch Actress and Singer Audra McDonald Feels at Home in Whirlwind of New Challenges Actress and Singer Audra McDonald Feels at Home in Whirlwind of New Challenges… Continue watching
Jun 25 Tuesday on the NewsHour: Audra McDonald By Arts Desk More of Jeffrey Brown's conversation with actress and singer Audra McDonald. Continue reading
Jun 25 Profile of Phish’s Trey Anastasio to Air July 2; Share Your Show Photos Now By Mike Melia Editor's note: This post will be updated with new videos leading up to the July 2 Trey Anastasio interview on the PBS NewsHour. // All right Phish fans, get ready: the PBS NewsHour's profile of Trey Anastasio will air… Continue reading
Jun 24 Weekly Poem: ‘I Go Back to May 1937’ By Molly Finnegan Actor John Lithgow reads the poem "I Go Back to May 1937," by Pulitzer Prize winner Sharon Olds. Continue reading
Jun 21 Conversation: Novelist Colum McCann, Author of ‘TransAtlantic’ By Tom LeGro Frederick Douglass traveling through Ireland in 1845 to stir up support for his abolitionist cause. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Sen. George Mitchell in 1998 trying to forge a peace treaty in Northern Ireland. Those actual… Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict… Continue watching
Jun 18 Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life By Meredith P. Garretson Journalist and poet Eliza Griswold set out to document Afghan life through the prism of oral folk poems shared mostly among Pashtun women. Seamus Murphy, the London-based photographer and filmmaker who worked with Griswold on the landay project, has been… Continue reading