Apr 11 Watch Mylie Evers at the annual Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 17 Watch For troubled teens, making and sharing poetry may be unexpected source of happiness By PBS News Hour Continue watching
Mar 13 Incarcerated teens write to free their demons; ‘I could have been beautiful’ By Mary Jo Brooks That poem, written by 18-year-old Jada, has become his mantra, of sorts. He began writing poetry five years ago, when he was a patient at a state psychiatric hospital in Lakewood, Wash. There he participated in the Pongo Writing Project,… Continue reading
Mar 13 Poet’s Notebook: Difficult Knowledge By Natasha Trethewey Visiting the King County Juvenile Detention Facility I couldn’t help thinking of the words of poet Robert Frost. In my own life I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make… Continue reading
Jan 09 Watch Rafael Campo’s student physicians embrace poetry to hone art of healing By PBS News Hour Rafael Campo's student physicians embrace poetry to hone art of healing… Continue watching
Jan 07 For these medical students, poetry nurtures the soul By Anne Azzi Davenport // Kai Huang, Shara Yurkiewicz and Samyukta Mullangi are three of Dr. Rafael Campo's students, who are learning poetry to supplement their medical training. Chief arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown sat down with three Harvard medical students to talk about… Continue reading
Jan 07 Rafael Campo uses his stethoscope to explore rhythms of poetry By Anne Azzi Davenport // Rafael Campo explores poetry through his experience as a doctor. He teaches this practice to his medical students out of the belief that healing is more than just knowing how to respond to symptoms. Rafael Campo is a… Continue reading
Oct 23 Watch 8:21 Young Detroiters unlock their inner poets, claim authorship of their experiences Detroit schools are turning their students into published poets with a little guidance from professional writers and a program called InsideOut. Jeffrey Brown reflects with U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey about visiting the Motor City middle-schoolers and the "sense of… Continue watching
Oct 23 Teen poets writing in a troubled city By Mary Jo Brooks EmbedVideo(7741); In addition to workshops and classes, InsideOut hosts poetry readings throughout the city. The NewsHour recently attended one at the Dell Pryor art gallery in Midtown Detroit. Here are Patty Lare, and two InsideOut alumni -- Terrell Morrow… Continue reading
Oct 23 Poet’s Notebook: InsideOut in Detroit By Natasha Trethewey Natasha Tretheway and Jeffrey Brown visit with students at InsideOut, a Detroit-based literary arts project that exposes children to poetry. Photo by Mary Jo Brooks. Journeying to Detroit a few weeks ago I felt much as I did the… Continue reading