May 04 Watch Claudia Emerson Wins Pulitzer Prize for Poetry Claudia Emerson, a professor at the University of Mary Washington, discuses winning the Pulitzer for her book "Late Wife," a compilation of poems about loves lost, marriage and divorce. Continue watching
Apr 10 Watch Hurricane Katrina Gives Birth to Poetry A report on poetry in New Orleans, where one night a week, in one small corner of the French Quarter, local poets tell stories of Hurricane Katrina. Continue watching
Mar 21 Watch Poet Responds to Lists of Americans Killed in Iraq Poet and Vietnam veteran Wyatt Prunty responds in verse to the NewsHour's broadcast of photos of American soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Continue watching
Mar 14 Watch Cowboy Poets Gather to Share Works Cowboy poets gather at the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada to share stories in verse by and about the women and men who still live the western life of rodeos and ranching. Continue watching
Feb 27 Watch War Veteran Brian Turner Reads His Poetry Poet Brian Turner spent 2004 in Iraq fighting as a soldier in the U.S. Army and bearing witness to war through poetry. Continue watching
Oct 20 Watch The NewsHour Turns 30 In a 30th anniversary special, NewsHour host Jim Lehrer interviews his founding partner Robert MacNeil about the history of the program. Continue watching
May 31 Watch W. Mark Felt Reveals He Was Watergate Source Deep Throat Former FBI official W. Mark Felt claims to be Deep Throat, the legendary source who leaked secrets about President Nixon's Watergate cover-up to The Washington Post, Vanity Fair magazine said Tuesday. The Washington Post confirmed Felt's story, bringing to a… Continue watching
Feb 04 Watergate Papers Made Public for the First Time By PBS News Hour Thousands of interview notes, memos and other material compiled by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during their investigation of the Watergate break-in were made public for the first time Thursday. Continue reading
Oct 21 Watch Ted Kooser A conversation with America's newest poet laureate, Ted Kooser. Continue watching
May 31 Watch In Memoriam: Watergate Legends Sam Dash and Archibald Cox Two key Watergate figures died last Saturday: Sam Dash, chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee, and Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Jeffrey Brown discusses their legacies with presidential historian Michael Beschloss and Richard Ben-Veniste, chief of the Watergate Task… Continue watching