Literary scholar and poet Carmen Gillespie asks us to consider the significance of the United States capital in African-American literature at a time when America is still learning how to read its first African-American lead political protagonist. Dr. Gillespie also discusses the role that poetry can play in reshaping the perception of national traumas such [...]

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VISIT THE DC PLACE

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by Dan Brady “Evolution favours what is good at replicating itself, rather than what is good.” Culture and Prosperity by John Kay Natural selection tells us that organisms will choose their mates based on traits favorable to the success of the species. In theory, each consecutive generation is better adapted to the environment than the [...]

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As is currently the case in many sectors, broadcast journalism is scrambling to figure out how to tap into and employ (and exploit . . . hey, it’s capitalism) new media and the public’s relationship to the developing formats. NBC News seems to have found a clue, if not an answer, in their new Digital [...]

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As part of POST NO ILLS’ efforts to encourage and disseminate exchanges between contemporary artists, we present the following conversation between performance artists Holly Bass and Anu Yadav. Curious to see what would happen when one puts two one-woman show artists at a kitchen table, we schlepped our gear over to Columbia Heights and let [...]

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_____ Author and PNI Advisory Editor Tiphanie Yanique conducted the following interview in August, 2007—just after the initial release of Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

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What constitutes the metro D.C. arts scene or what makes a D.C. artist, and does it matter if there are no distinctive characteristics? Though you may not hear these two questions raised publicly, they are—as the demographics of D.C. and surrounding environs continute to shift—questions on the minds of many arts administrators and artists. JOSE [...]

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“Whatever, yo!” Whatever happened those of us existing outside the black/white racial dynamic in the U.S. being acknowledged as more than “whatever”? Kelly Tsai has a new spoken word video out asking us, as we approach election day 2008, to peel back the worn veils of “whatever” and recognize what needs to be seen underneath. [...]

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Conversation Three: Jon West-Bey, Founder and Executive Director of the American Poetry Museum in Washington, D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood [link]. The American Poetry Museum’s programming strategy could be characterized as stick-and-move or guerrilla, even. Either way, its collaborative movable feast of poetry readings and forums concerning the “intersections” of art and social issues is creating [...]

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Conversation Two: Shara McCallum, Director of Bucknell University’s Stadler Poetry Center in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania [link]. . The Stadler Poetry Center is home to the Stadler Center Writers Series, Sandra & Gary Sojka Visitng Poet, Poet-in-Residence, Stadler Fellowship, Stadler Emerging Writer Fellowship, Philip Roth Residence in Creative Writing, the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets and the [...]

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