Audio Oct 30, 2014 Max Brooks The author of "World War Z" really isn’t kidding when it comes to zombies.
Audio Oct 23, 2014 Jesmyn Ward Attempting to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends in her memoir "Men We Reaped."
Audio Oct 16, 2014 Nicole Gomez Fisher Bringing it all back home in her film "Sleeping with the Fishes."
Audio Oct 02, 2014 Ramón “Chunky” Sánchez Chunky's been playing and singing the stories of the Chicano people for 40 years.
Audio Sep 25, 2014 Carla Perlo How Dance Place’s open door policy helped transform an underserved neighborhood into a vital arts district.
Audio Sep 19, 2014 The Singing and Praying Bands of Maryland and Delaware Rev. Jerry Colbert shares one of the oldest African-American music traditions.
Audio Sep 09, 2014 Kevin Doyle The Irish step dancer and 2014 National Heritage Fellow talks about his life-long passion for dance.
Audio Sep 04, 2014 Curator Leslie Umberger on artist Ralph Fasanella Blue-collar worker and union organizer Ralph Fasanella would have been 100 this week. His paintings of urban working class people struggling and thriving continue to live on.
Audio Aug 21, 2014 Jonathan Tucker The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together.
Audio Aug 14, 2014 Elizabeth McCracken NEA Literature Fellow on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.
Audio Aug 07, 2014 Dorothy Lawson and Ralph Farris, of the new music quartet ETHEL Believing that music is a unifying force, ETHEL has joined forces with musicians across genres and regions and built a family of artists along the way.
Audio Jul 31, 2014 Francisco Nunez 2011 MacArthur Fellow Francisco Nunez brings together New York youth of all backgrounds and together they create beautiful music and an inclusive community.
Audio Jul 10, 2014 Julie Otsuka Her first novel, "When the Emperor Was Divine," explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Audio Jun 05, 2014 Jennifer Pickering For the founder and director of LEAF Community Arts all art is both local and global. LEAF is that philosophy in action.
Audio May 29, 2014 Dinaw Mengestu The author discusses the NEA Big Read selection, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washington, DC neighborhood.
Audio May 22, 2014 Remembering War through Art Conversations about Blue Star Museums and the healing power of art, Jacob Lawrences's War Series, and a poem by veteran Lynn Hill.
Audio May 15, 2014 Adam Sherlock Behind the scenes of “Sending Messages,” the award-winning monthly podcast produced by incarcerated youth.
Audio Apr 17, 2014 David Mura David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it means to be Japanese-American.