Poet Sharon Olds appeared on State of the Arts in February 1997, where she talked about her career with host ...
Billy Collins at the Dodge Poetry Festival
Mae Kellert2020-10-26T16:03:06-04:00State of the Arts producer Susan Wallner chats with poet Billy Collins at the Dodge Poetry Festival in 2002. Collins, ...
People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos
Mae Kellert2020-10-07T12:20:00-04:00See how People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos uses short stories to change the lives of people who have had very ...
Nell Irvin Painter
Steven Wolock2020-09-21T21:00:18-04:00Nell Irvin Painter was a professor of American History at Princeton University for 20 years. Upon retiring, she enrolled in ...
Turnpike
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T20:26:49-04:00Narrated by Paul Sorvino, this 2005 documentary takes a figurative journey along the New Jersey Turnpike to explore the art, ...
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to artist Ben Shahn, ...
Art for the Homebound
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:58:31-04:00New Jersey’s Folk Life Centers are piloting a first-of-its-kind program that sends artists into the homes of people unable ...
Francesca Maximé
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T13:59:26-04:00Former broadcast news anchor Francesca Marguerite Maximé won the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at ...
Morristown Festival of Books
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:05:54-04:00We visited the wildly popular Morristown Festival of Books, now in its seventh year. Seven thousand visitors of all ...
John Keene, Writer
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:47:24-04:002018 MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner, John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, a series of wide-ranging stories based in the ...
Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:32:21-04:00The Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail in Princeton, NJ adds a 50th poem to its popular nature walk, ...
Danny Shot, Poet
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:28:41-04:00Raw, funny, and deeply moving, poet Danny Shot has a new book, Works (2018 CavanKerry Press). Danny describes how ...
Princeton Children’s Book Festival
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:55:44-04:00A visit to the wildly popular Princeton Children's Book Festival. More than 80 authors and illustrators from across the United ...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:02:55-04:00The heartfelt work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan is deeply rooted in her childhood memories of Paterson, New Jersey. ...
Turning the Page on Black Comics
Steven Wolock2021-08-16T08:26:15-04:00America has a long and rich history of Black comics and comic books. We meet Rider University professor Sheena ...
Poet Stephen Dunn
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:36:13-04:00Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn at his home in Frostberg, Maryland and during his annual visit to the Murphy ...
Oliver Lake
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:41:45-04:00Meet longtime Montclair resident, the innovative jazz musician and composer Oliver Lake. He also writes poetry and paints, seeing ...
Emari DiGiorgio, Poet
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:46:32-04:00Emari DiGiorgio premiered her first published book of poems, "The Things A Body Might Become," at World Above, an ...
Joel Dias-Porter
Steven Wolock2020-07-21T15:12:37-04:00State of the Arts profiles the extraordinary writer Joel Dias-Porter, a published poet and National Poetry Slam winner. He supports ...
Jazz in the Key of Ellison
Steven Wolock2021-08-16T13:46:52-04:00The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, NJPAC, in Newark, NJ celebrated the great American writer Ralph Ellison with a ...