Podcasts

Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.

Virtuoso drummer and 2021 NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington talks about career and her advocacy for “jazz without patriarchy.”

Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

The rhythms of a master.

For Phil Schaap, jazz continues to be a wonder, a joy, and a passion.

Sally Wen Mao’s poetry excavates the burden of spectacle.

Acclaimed crime writer Tana French keeps pushing the genre in her latest book, The Searcher.

Nataki Garrett, artistic director of Oregon Shakespeare Festival, speaks about theater’s year of reckoning.

In her role as artistic director of Silkroad, Rhiannon Giddens sets out to explore the world within the US.

Henry Threadgill continues his work on music’s cutting edge.

NEA Literature Fellow Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection The Office of Historical Corrections.

Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.

In this podcast we talk with ballet dancer Amanda Morgan about her love of ballet—both as a dancer and a choreographer and the work she has done to try and bring real inclusion and racial equity to the ballet world.