Jun 18 Pulling Back the Burka: A Glimpse of Afghan Life Through Poetry By Molly Finnegan, Mary Jo Brooks 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, narrates a… Continue reading
Jun 18 Watch Ancient Afghan Poetry Form Adapts to Tell Story of Modern Life and Conflict Short, Potent Poetry Offers Bite of Afghan Life… Continue watching
Jun 17 Weekly Poem: ‘From the Grandiloquent Dictionary’ By Molly Finnegan Hailey Leithauser's poetry has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Poetry and in the Best American Poetry and Best New Poets anthologies. Her first book, "Swoop," won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. That collection will be published in… Continue reading
Jun 13 Thursday on the NewsHour: Novelist Walter Mosley By Molly Finnegan Author Walter Mosley has written more than 40 books. His new mystery novel, "Little Green," revives one of the best-known, longest-running characters in American literature. Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins, Mosley's fictional private eye, was last seen driving off a cliff. Continue reading
Jun 13 Watch In ‘Little Green,’ an Old, Familiar Character Makes an Easy Comeback In 'Little Green,' an Old, Familiar Character Makes an Easy Comeback… Continue watching
Jun 12 Around the Nation By Tom LeGro Watch five arts and culture videos from PBS and public media partners around the nation. Continue reading
Jun 11 A Bone to Pick With Genocide? Try a Million By Tom LeGro For 48 hours, the grass on the National Mall disappeared underneath a million white and grey "bones," a symbolic mass grave on the footsteps of the U.S. Capitol. The One Million Bones project is a public art installation created to… Continue reading
Jun 10 Hit the Road, Poet Laureate: Trethewey Partners With NewsHour for Second Term By Tom LeGro The Library of Congress reappointed U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to a second term on Monday. Though she is not the first in her position to receive the honor of an extended post, the announcement does have special meaning for… Continue reading
Jun 10 Weekly Poem: Charles Hood Reads ‘Skype’ By Tom LeGro Charles Hood is the author of "South x South" (Ohio University Press), winner of the 2012 Hollis Summers Poetry Prize. His previous books include "Bombing Ploesti" and "Rio de Dios" (Red Hen Press). He has been the recipient of a… Continue reading
Jun 07 One Photographer’s Experience Documenting Mentally Ill Inmates By Victoria Fleischer For her project "Trapped," photographer Jenn Ackerman spent months in the Correctional Psychiatric Treatment Unit (CPTU) of the Kentucky State Reformatory to learn about the experiences of the mentally ill confined in the prison system. Continue reading