Brian Turner served as an infantry team leader with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Unit in Iraq. His book of poetry is called “Here, Bullet.”
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Sacred music provided comfort and hope to generations of African Americans, from slavery to the civil rights movement. Music historian Robert Darden tells this inspiring story and we hear lots of great music.
We're celebrating National Poetry Month this year by reading some of our favorite poems. Here's Charles with Bukowski's "The Laughing Heart."
Azadeh Moaveni talks about growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran.
David Carlyon tells Jim Fleming that Rice was once considered America’s greatest humorist. He was a talking clown, doing satiric commentary on current events.
Who's the real Barack Obama? Biographer David Maraniss traveled around the world searching for answers. He says Obama's life is surrounded in mythology.
Francine Segan is the author of “Shakespeare’s Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook.” She gives an inside view of the kind of dinner party William Shakespeare might have known
Ellen Handler Spitz is the author of many books on psychology and aesthetics. She talks with Jim Fleming about her latest - "The Brightening Glance: Imagination and Childhood."
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