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.