Kevin Young is a blues poet. His new collection is called “Jelly Roll: A Blues.” Young talks about what makes a blues poem and gives him a couple of examples.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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John Sedgwick was born into the historic and prominent Boston Sedgwick family and seems to have inherited the family tendency toward mental instability.
Have you had culture shock? Did it hit when you were travelling or when you were at home?
Writer Josh Swiller says, as a young man, he often felt outside his home culture.
He decided to leave the U.S. altogether and found a whole new world of challenging inter-cultural communication.
Pnina Moed Kass is an American who's lived in Israel for over 35 years. She's written a novel about a suicide bombing and the people whose lived are affected by it.
Ricardo Pitts-Wiley contributed to an essay by Henry Jenkins called "Multiculturalism, Appropriation, and the New Media Literacies: Remixing Moby Dick."
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Paul Krugman wrote an article called “For Richer” for the New York Times Magazine. He tells Steve Paulson that there is a widening chasm between the super rich and the rest of us.
M.J. Ryan wants to revive the custom of saying grace before meals. She tells Jim Fleming how she became a collector of mealtime blessings.
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