Podcasts
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An acclaimed poet, activist, and scholar, Sonia Sanchez is the former Laura Carnell Professor of English and Women's Studies at Temple University. Called a “lion in literature’s forest” by Maya Angelou, Sanchez has written more than a dozen books… more
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Poet and memoirist Mary Karr is the Peck Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in poetry in 2005 and has won Pushcart Prizes for both her poetry and essays. Her bestselling memoir, The Liars' Club ,… more
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A quirky and compelling writer, Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of seven novels (among them The Mezzanine and Vox ), as well as three works of nonfiction, including the National Book Critics Circle Award winner Double Fold: Libraries… more
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• Recorded Apr 18, 2009Amiri Baraka | Home: Social Essays Poet, playwright, and political activist, Amiri Baraka is the recipient of Guggenheim Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters… more
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Over the span of more than four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at… more
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The most widely translated book in world literature after the Bible, Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching (Book of the Way) is the classic manual on the art of living. Following the success of his translation and commentary on that original text, renowned… more
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South African native Breyten Breytenbach is a distinguished painter, activist, and writer of more than 30 books of poetry and prose. A vocal critic and committed opponent of apartheid, he founded the resistance group Okhela in the 1970s and spent… more
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• Recorded Mar 25, 2008Lebanese writer Elias Khoury is the author of Little Mountain , The Kingdom of Strangers , and Gate of the Sun , among others. He serves as editor-in-chief of Mulhak , the weekly literary supplement of the An-Nahar newspaper. His latest novel,… more
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• Recorded Dec 13, 2007Rodger Kamenetz is the author of the international bestseller The Jew in the Lotus , as well as several books of poetry and a critically acclaimed memoir, Terra Infirma. His new book explores the realms of word and image, psychology and… more
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Nikki Giovanni is a world-renowned poet, activist, and educator whose poems emerged during the civil rights and Black Arts Movements of the 1960s. One of the most celebrated and influential poets of the era, Giovanni has created a vibrant and… more
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• Recorded Nov 16, 2006Winner of the 1982 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award for Poetry for Selected Poems, Galway Kinnell establishes the cosmic, social, and cultural significance of life through the language of daily human experience. The founder and former… more
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• Recorded Jul 25, 2006Lily Brett, the daughter of Holocaust survivors, was born in Germany and emigrated to Australia with her parents in 1948. Both her fiction and poetry have won other major prizes, including the 1987 Victorian Premier’s Award for poetry for The… more
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• Recorded May 2, 2006For over four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at least one book. Among… more
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• Recorded May 6, 2005Grammy Award winner Jill Scott grew up in North Philadelphia. She was discovered by The Root's drummer Amir, who invited her to perform with the band on "You Got Me," a Top 40 pop hit in 1999. Her platinum debut, Who is Jill Scott?, wowed the… more
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• Recorded Apr 5, 2005Camille Paglia is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the author of several best-selling books including Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps and Tramps. In… more
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Joyce Carol Oates, now the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University, has published more than 70 books of poetry, short stories, essays and literary criticism, including novels and plays. She has twice… more
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215 Festival Event Patti Smith began publishing her poetry in the 1970's. She is the author of Witt, Wild Leaves, Seventh Heaven and Patti Smith Complete: Lyrics, Notes and Reflections , which stand among numerous volumes of her poems and… more
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Henry Miller predicted that Erica Jong’s Fear of Flying would “make literary history, that because of it, women are going to find their own voice and give us great sagas of sex, life, joy, and adventure.” The book became an international best… more
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Billy Collins has published nine previous collections of poetry, including Questions About Angels, Picnic, Lightning, and Sailing Alone Around the Room – his last three collections have broken sales records for poetry. A New York Public Library… more
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Giovanni first emerged during the Civil Rights, Black Power, and Black Arts Movements in the 1960s. She has penned 16 volumes of poetry. Giovanni enjoys teaching and writing about what she knows. Her poetry is personal and political with topics… more
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