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 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.

You can see how it works int eh docu-series, Isolation to Creation

Aaron Dworkin is a man of many talents: he’s a violinist, social entrepreneur, professor, author, MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Council on the Arts.

Meet nueva canción singer/songwriter Suni Paz, 2020 National Heritage Fellow.

To honor the Winter Solstice, (more specifically, that the days are getting longer from here on in), as well as Jupiter and Saturn having their closest visible alignment in 800 years and to celebrate her recent appointment to a third term in the posi...

Executive Director of the National Council for the Traditional Arts (NCTA) Lora Bottinelli joins me to talk about the central place of traditional art and traditional artists in the American experience.

Theaters (and all live performance) are struggling to get through the pandemic. Most have been closed since March, and artistic directors are kept up at night with a host of questions: when people will be willing to gather indoors to watch a play tog...

Teacher and advocate Rebekah Taussig recently published her first book Sitting Pretty The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body.

Culture-bearer and 2020 National Heritage Fellow Wayne Valliere (Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe) is one of a handful of birch bark canoe builders left in the United States.

Scott Yoo is a wonderful guide to the music and the influences of some of the great composers of western classical music on the series "Now Hear This"

In this podcast, we’re marking Halloween by revisiting interviews with authors who have created work that focus on monsters.

The new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art speaks to our moment.

Poet, novelist, essayist, 2017 National Book Award Finalist and 2019 NEA Literature Fellow Erika L. Sánchez explores borders and boundaries in all their permutations.

Artistic Director of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company Maria Manuela Goyanes discusses the challenges and opportunities this moment offers theater in general and Woolly in particular.

Loira Limbal explores 24-hour day care in her documentary Through the Night