/verse-and-voice Enjoy a collection of poetry and other word artistry curated by WNPR. en-US Copyright Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:00:00 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-06-21/fire-sparking-imagination-since-2-million-b-c Fire imagery abounds in music, literature, art, and scripture. It thrives at the center of ceremony and ritual around the world. We associate fire with… Mon, 21 Jun 2021 17:00:00 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-06-21/fire-sparking-imagination-since-2-million-b-c Josh Nilaya /news/2021-05-27/listen-how-poet-porsha-olayiwola-reimagines-and-repairs-history Poet Porsha Olayiwola uses Afrofuturism to look back at history. “It’s reimagining, it’s reconciling, it’s inserting magic in a way that feels like… Thu, 27 May 2021 17:05:18 GMT /news/2021-05-27/listen-how-poet-porsha-olayiwola-reimagines-and-repairs-history Morgan Springer /arts-and-culture/2021-05-07/audacious-little-things-elevation-by-reduction This is the first installment of Audacious Little Things!Meet an anthropologist who explains why she thinks the human animal delights in making miniatures… Fri, 07 May 2021 12:53:05 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-05-07/audacious-little-things-elevation-by-reduction Chion Wolf /arts-and-culture/2021-05-03/hartfords-poetry-bus-a-moving-piece-of-public-art Poetry by young Hartford-area writers is reaching a wider readership -- on a CTtransit Bus.The “Poetry Bus” will inspire riders for the next few weeks… Mon, 03 May 2021 18:42:28 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-05-03/hartfords-poetry-bus-a-moving-piece-of-public-art Ray Hardman /2021-04-09/why-poetry-matters-now-with-hartfords-poet-laureate April is National Poetry Month. It’s a time to celebrate poets and their craft. So we asked Hartford’s poet laureate, Frederick-Douglass Knowles II, if he… Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:36:34 GMT /2021-04-09/why-poetry-matters-now-with-hartfords-poet-laureate Lori Mack /arts-and-culture/2021-03-08/an-evening-with-patti-smith We reair Colin's 2016 interview with Patti Smith at the Immanuel Congregational Church in Hartford when she was in town for a Mark Twain House event. The… Mon, 08 Mar 2021 18:00:00 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-03-08/an-evening-with-patti-smith Betsy Kaplan /arts-and-culture/2021-02-25/ghostwriting-what-happens-in-the-pages-stays-in-the-pages Ghostwriting evokes an image of the writer who toils away in obscurity, secretly penning books credited to another. In reality, ghostwriters are just good… Thu, 25 Feb 2021 18:00:00 GMT /arts-and-culture/2021-02-25/ghostwriting-what-happens-in-the-pages-stays-in-the-pages Betsy Kaplan /arts-and-culture/2020-12-28/best-of-2020-a-conversation-with-poet-jericho-brown At the start of this year, Jericho Brown addressed the graduates of the Bennington Writing Seminars Class of January 2020. He said, “If you can’t imagine… Mon, 28 Dec 2020 12:30:00 GMT /arts-and-culture/2020-12-28/best-of-2020-a-conversation-with-poet-jericho-brown Lucy Nalpathanchil, Tess Terrible /arts-and-culture/2020-12-18/winter-pandemic-book-club-poetry-hour There’s not a lot that rhymes with pandemic. This hour, Margaret Gibson, ���ϳԹ���’s poet laureate joins us for a conversation on poetry writing during… Fri, 18 Dec 2020 13:02:42 GMT /arts-and-culture/2020-12-18/winter-pandemic-book-club-poetry-hour Lucy Nalpathanchil, Tess Terrible /arts-and-culture/2020-07-12/walking-with-dante "Dante's Inferno" is the most famous section of Dante Aligheri's 14,000 line epic poem, The Divine Comedy. But it's only the first part of Dante's long… Mon, 13 Jul 2020 00:56:55 GMT /arts-and-culture/2020-07-12/walking-with-dante Betsy Kaplan