Celebrated poet, playwright and activist Amiri Baraka wrote the foreword to the book, "This Planet Is Doomed: The Science Fiction Poetry of Sun Ra." He spoke to Steve Paulson about Sun Ra's music and poetry.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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It was a snowy day. Susan B. Anthony invited Frederick Douglass to tea. Author Dean Robbins reads from "Two Friends," his new picture for kids.
Actress Angela Ianonne tells Anne Strainchamps about her identification with Maria Callas and explains what she thinks made Callas such a great artist.
Is this... a date?
Should I ..? Are we going to..?
A story from Marilyn Pittman.
Aimee McCormick and Andra Mitrovich spent years touring in a two-woman play called, “Love, Janis.” They talk about how much of herself Janis Joplin poured into her performances.
Ana Menendez says the younger generation of Cuban-Americans are completely Americanized and the older generation wouldn’t give up the standard of living they’ve grown used to in Miami.
What's the real meaning of Camus' "The Myth of Sisyphus"? Philosopher Mark Rowlands unpacks this classic fable about life's meaning and absurdity.
Anne Carson is a writer who constantly rearranges poetry's furniture. As a translator, essayist, critic and poet, she's constantly forging new forms. In this UNCUT interview, she and Jim Fleming talk poems, old and new.
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