DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “If Two Heads Are Better Than One Then…” (5/6)
David Lehman loves wordplay. He loves writing poems in both traditional and invented forms. He takes the writing of…
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DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 2” (4/6)
Yesterday we brought you Part I of a two-part in-depth interview with David. It touches on many of the themes and subjects that have concerned David over the course…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Man of Letters Part 1” (3/6)
David Lehman is truly a man of letters. He’s published 10 volumes of poetry, edited dozens of anthologies, including the Oxford…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Sinatra’s Century” (2/6)
On May 14, 1998, I phoned David [Lehman] just as he learned of Frank Sinatra’s death. “I can’t talk now,” he said. “Sinatra has…
DISCOVERIES: Stacey Harwood & David Lehman, “Lehman’s Mind is an Arc” (1/6)
So happy and honored that David Lehman, the de facto dean of American Poetry is this week’s Featured Creative. Unlike so many…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (6/6)
What have I learned on the journey of discovery that’s been The Brooklyn Cottage?
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (5/6)
In January 2015, the Brooklyn Cottage hosted an event to talk about race.
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (4/6)
I thought back to the “instructions” Malidoma Patrice Some had given me…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (3/6)
In April 2012, we picked Dirt as the theme for the Brooklyn Cottage’s second month…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (2/6)
Yazmany and I decided that the Brooklyn Cottage would have monthly themes…
DISCOVERIES: Jenny Douglas, “To Build a Brooklyn Cottage: Journey of Discovery in Six Parts” (1/6)
That the The Brooklyn Cottage exists is itself a mini-marvel of the 21st century. This…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Successful Interviews” (6/6)
I have finally figured out what drives me to make films: I want to connect! Connect with my subjects and connect with my audience. I like intimate, hand-made, personal films.
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “On Film Festivals and Dealing with Rejection” (5/6)
One of the conundrums about making the films that I do is that I am making the films that I want to make—I’m not making them…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “Elizabeth King” (4/6)
This is an artist whose absolutely uncanny work I also grew up with in my family house, but I had never met her. When I was working on “Curious Worlds,” David Beck…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “Curious Worlds: The Art & Imagination of David Beck” (3/6)
The biggest change for me in approaching this film and subject was that I knew I could not film it myself—the limits of my skills as…
DISCOVERIES: Olympia Stone, “The Cardboard Bernini” (2/6)
I always marvel at the way this film grew totally organically out of the sudden death of my father and the way that one of his artists confronted his death. And at the same time…