Lectures tagged "Spoken Word"


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Boston Book Festival: Guided Open Mic
Hank Phillippi Ryan
October 24, 2009
01:29:07
Writers read their work to an eager audience and any guest authors, editors or literary agents who drop in. This open mic session is hosted by Boston Channel 7's Hank Phillippi Ryan, author of Prime Time, Face Time, and Air Time, and winner of 24 Emmy awards.
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Spinning a Tale
Irene Smalls
October 24, 2009
00:42:21
Brian O'Donovan, of WGBH's A Celtic Sojourn, hosts storytellers Jay O'Callahan and Irene Smalls. Sponsored by State Street Corporation.
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Spoken Word Showcase
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo
October 24, 2009
00:45:43
Poet Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo host a spoken word showcase, in which beautiful, powerful language is transformed into music to convey deep emotions and provocative ideas. Young Bostonians perform original works as well as those of well-known published poets.
The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Taylor Branch
October 8, 2009
00:54:57
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Taylor Branch takes us inside the Clinton White House with a discussion of The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President.
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part II
Hill Harper
October 3, 2009
01:31:12
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Town Hall: Part I
Malik Neal
October 3, 2009
00:50:40
CSI:NY's Hill Harper and filmmaker Gary Ross join local students and a panel of esteemed local experts for a timely Town Hall Meeting entitled, "Lincoln, Douglass and the Transformative Power of Words." The event seeks to underscore the importance of education in the lives of Abraham Lincol
James Ellroy: Blood's a Rover
James Ellroy
September 23, 2009
00:42:43
Los Angeles crime novelist James Ellroy tells the story of how, when he was a newborn, the borzoi dog of book publisher Alfred A. Knopf visited him in the hospital and told him that he had to write a great novel to save Americans from illiteracy in the year 2009.
The First 100 Days
Jonathan Alter
April 13, 2009
01:27:09
Jonathan Alter, senior editor and columnist for Newsweek and author of The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope, and Richard Parker, lecturer in public policy and senior fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, offer observations regarding