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N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Anthony Braxton may be considered avant garde but he embraces all musical traditions
- Added: Mar 21, 2014
- Length: 40:46
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 28:24
- Purchases: 1
Daniel Beaty's play and bravura performance in The Tallest Tree in the Forest shines a light on the artistry and activism of Paul Robeson.
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- Added: Mar 20, 2014
- Length: 31:49
- Purchases: 1
MK Asante reveals the formula for efficacious writing and acknowledges the many languages of art. In this acknowledgment, Asante shares his effort...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
MK Asante lends his poetic voice to the discussion of the role of artists in impacting societal values—tackling issues of the influence of art in s...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Drawing parallels to some of the historical resistance movements of African-Americans, MK Asante offers five requisites for art. He maintains that...
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- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
This Black History Month Special documentary traces how the Louisiana Creole music known as zydeco found on a new home 2,000 miles from its birthpl...
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 01:02:45
- Purchases: 3
The winner of the 2012 Joyce Wein Artist Prize discusses the relationship in her work between visual art and sonic art. [26:26]
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 26:26
- Purchases: 1
Nick Cave, chosen to participate in the U.S. State Department's Arts-in-Embassies program, talks about his Sound Suits, a unique blend of sculpture...
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- Added: Feb 12, 2014
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 1
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 11:25
Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 2
The Prison Creative Art Project (PCAP) brings together artist from inside and outside the prison walls of Michigan to create a vibrant arts communi...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 12:30
- Purchases: 2
Poet Cara Benson leads a powerful writing workshop at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Saratoga County, New York. We listen in as a group ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 21:03
- Purchases: 2
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 07:27
Lead Belly was born Huddie William Ledbetter near Mooringsport, Louisiana around 1889. We explore Lead Belly's life in and out of prison. Take a li...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:10
- Purchases: 4
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 13:42
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us.
Prison Poetry Workshop ha...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
We visited with youth at the Alabama Department of Youth Service in Mount Meigs, AL and met graduates of their program who have continued to write.
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:36
Join the Prison Poetry Workshop as we travel to New Orleans and join a group of prison poets who are taking on Walt Whitman.
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:31
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet & writer Dwayne Betts to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetry Workshop has asked poets from across the country to r...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
We interviewed Randall Horton about his experience with incarceration and the process he underwent in becoming a poet.
Randall Horton is the autho...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:27
- Purchases: 1
