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 Eli 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 Eli 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 ...