A weekly almanac of the arts through history, a Word of the Week, and a poem or two, all in about five... more
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The Kent State Shootings, Johannes Brahms, Mother's Day.Word of the Week: MatriarchPoem: Shakespeare Sonnet 143All clips are for educational purposes... more
Herbie Hancock & International Jazz Day, Citizen Kane, Daniel Day-LewisWord of the Week: MagnatePoem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 29All clips are for... more
YouTube and "Me at the Zoo," Sergei Prokofiev, William ShakespeareWord of the Week: JuxtapositionPoem: Sonnet 18All clips are for educational... more
Music photographer Ed Caraeff, Thornton Wilder, Carousel.Word of the Week: PerseverancePoem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 112All clips are for educational purposes and... more
The Little Prince, Billie Holiday, and Twin Peaks.Word of the Week: NaivetePoem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 7All clips are for educational purposes and... more
2001: A Space Odyssey, the Jovian-Plutonian Gravity Effect, Amber Gray and Hadestown, Hans Christian Andersen.Word of the Week: OdysseyPoem: Shakespeare's... more
Marlon Brando & Sascheen Littlefeather, Ken Russell's movie Tommy, and the seizure and trial around Allen Ginsberg's poem Howl.Word of... more
Nat "King" Cole, Who Shot J.R.?, Paula Vogel's How I Learned to Drive.Word of the Week: IndeliblePoem: Shakespeare's Sonnet 100Memory... more
Pi Day, Archimedes of Syracuse, Carl Sagan, Paris is Burning, and blues singer Chippie Hill,Word of the Week: "Mathematics"Poem: Sonnet... more
The Star Spangled Banner, Bloody Sunday in Selma, Anna Deavera Smith's Twilight Los Angeles, and musician Lou Reed.Word of the... more
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