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To The Best Of Our Knowledge

The Poetry Foundation's mandate is to support "a vigorous presence for poetry." In our digital age, that means getting poems onto our screens, big and small. Catherine Halley run the Foundation's digital programs. 

Also, you can hear more poems from Nikki Giovanni here!

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Sports Illustrated writer Jeff MacGregor spent a year on the NASCAR circuit and writes about it in "Sunday Money: Speed! Lust! Madness! Death!"

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Morgan Spurlock is the director of the documentary film “Super Size Me.”  He tells Jim Fleming about his experience of eating only at McDonald’s for a month.

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Robert Neuwirth tells Steve Paulson about the process by which people acquire and improve dwellings in the world's cities even when they don't own land.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Do do I look good in this dress?  We all know the answer, right?  It’s "you look great." Even if that’s not quite true.  

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Historian Margaret MacMillan tells Jim Fleming how a lot of today’s troubles in the Middle East stem from the way the Versailles Treaty after the First World War carved up the Ottoman Empire with no consideration of the Arabs’ political aspirations.

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Madeleine Albright tells Steve Paulson that being the first female Secretary of State was more of a problem within the U.S. than it ever was when she represented our interests abroad.

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Katy Lederer is a poet who used to manage a hedge fund. Her latest book is "The Heaven-Sent Leaf." She reads from it and talks about her work with Anne Strainchamps.

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