Saying Goodbye To The Kojo Nnamdi Show
On this last episode, we look back on 23 years of joyous, difficult and always informative conversation.
Much of American art depicts the New England region as a place of quaint villages and honest hard-working industrialists. A new exhibit at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American Art displays poetry alongside these famous pictures seeking to separate the myth from the reality.
Guests
- Davie Walders Director of Vital Signs Poetry Project at the National Institute of Health and Children's Inn in Bethesda
- Henry Taylor Co-Director of American University's Masters in Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing
- Linda Pastan Former Poet Laureate of Maryland
- E. Ethelbert Miller Poet, Director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, and author of "How We Sleep On The Nights We Don't Make Love"
- William H. Truettner Curator, "Picturing Old New England: Image and Memory"
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