EpisodeREPLAY: Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry
There are poems that stay with us, and order our steps.
EpisodeREPLAY: The Shondaland Revolution
Grey’s Anatomy, Scandal, and How to Get Away with Murder aren’t just popular tv shows–they’re also groundbreaking. Michaela Meyer (Christopher Newport University) says showrunner Shonda Rhimes has changed the way …
EpisodeReplay: Poetic Justice
When writer and Invisibilia producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d be leaving Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state–one that charges everyday people to stay angry about injustice.
EpisodePoetry that Heals
To some, poetry and medicine seem like opposites. But both science and poetry use language to understand deeper truths about the human condition.
BlogPortraits of American Poetry
This past May, the world celebrated the 200th birthday of Walt Whitman. He remains one of the great American poets, a brilliant figure in the American imagination that he came, …
BlogFurious Flower: The Soundtrack
For our show “Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry” Joanne Gabbin, the founder of Furious Flower, joins us in studio along with Lauren Alleyne to …
EpisodeFurious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry
On Sept. 27th and 28th, the most notable poets of our time will gather in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, the first academic center devoted to African American poetry in the United States.
Episode400 Years After 1619
In late August 1619, twenty or more enslaved Africans arrived in Virginia at what’s now called Fort Monroe. We look at how the nation is commemorating those first Africans who arrived in British North America.
EpisodePoetic Justice
When writer and Invisibilia producer Lulu Miller discovered she’d be leaving Virginia, she wrote a startling love letter to the state–one that charges everyday people to stay angry about injustice.
EpisodeReplay: WGR’s Summer Reading Recs
Your summer vacation packing list has some key items: cell phone charger, swimsuit, toothbrush. We’re here to add some essentials to your list, with the best book recs from the With Good Reason universe.
EpisodePoetry that Heals
To some, poetry and medicine seem like opposites. But both science and poetry use language to understand deeper truths about the human condition.
