During the 2024 Dodge Poetry Festival at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), iconic spoken word artists, including poets ...
Nell Painter: She Just Keeps Talking
Mae Kellert2024-05-22T21:42:03-04:00After an esteemed career as professor of history at Princeton University and writing the New York Times bestselling The History ...
Rita Dove reads “Geometry”
Mae Kellert2024-04-17T14:23:22-04:00“I prove a theorem and the house expands…” In this 1997 video from the State of the Arts archives, Rita ...
Philip Roth’s Newark
Mae Kellert2023-09-14T10:18:07-04:00"Philip Roth Unbound" was a three-day festival at NJPAC in March 2023 that celebrated the great novelist with readings by ...
Poet Sharon Olds
Mae Kellert2021-04-12T14:24:45-04:00Poet Sharon Olds appeared on State of the Arts in February 1997, where she talked about her career with host ...
Billy Collins at the Dodge Poetry Festival
Mae Kellert2020-10-26T16:03:06-04:00State of the Arts producer Susan Wallner chats with poet Billy Collins at the Dodge Poetry Festival in 2002. Collins, ...
People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos
Mae Kellert2020-10-07T12:20:00-04:00See how People and Stories/Gente y Cuentos uses short stories to change the lives of people who have had very ...
Nell Irvin Painter
Steven Wolock2020-09-21T21:00:18-04:00Nell Irvin Painter was a professor of American History at Princeton University for 20 years. Upon retiring, she enrolled in ...
Turnpike
Eric Schultz2020-09-21T20:26:49-04:00Narrated by Paul Sorvino, this 2005 documentary takes a figurative journey along the New Jersey Turnpike to explore the art, ...
Bernarda Bryson Shahn
Eric Schultz2020-07-13T14:09:49-04:00Artist Bernarda Bryson Shahn (1903-2004) was an illustrator, print maker, journalist, and author. She was married to artist Ben Shahn, ...
Art for the Homebound
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T13:58:31-04:00New Jersey’s Folk Life Centers are piloting a first-of-its-kind program that sends artists into the homes of people unable ...
Morristown Festival of Books
Eric Schultz2020-09-22T14:05:54-04:00We visited the wildly popular Morristown Festival of Books, now in its seventh year. Seven thousand visitors of all ...
Francesca Maximé
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T13:59:26-04:00Former broadcast news anchor Francesca Marguerite Maximé won the 2020 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award from the Poetry Center at ...
John Keene, Writer
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T14:47:24-04:002018 MacArthur “Genius” Award-winner, John Keene is the author of Counternarratives, a series of wide-ranging stories based in the ...
Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:32:21-04:00The Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail in Princeton, NJ adds a 50th poem to its popular nature walk, ...
Princeton Children’s Book Festival
Steven Wolock2020-07-16T15:55:44-04:00A visit to the wildly popular Princeton Children's Book Festival. More than 80 authors and illustrators from across the United ...
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T15:02:55-04:00The heartfelt work of poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan is deeply rooted in her childhood memories of Paterson, New Jersey. ...
Danny Shot, Poet
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:28:41-04:00Raw, funny, and deeply moving, poet Danny Shot has a new book, Works (2018 CavanKerry Press). Danny describes how ...
Oliver Lake
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:41:45-04:00Meet longtime Montclair resident, the innovative jazz musician and composer Oliver Lake. He also writes poetry and paints, seeing ...
Poet Stephen Dunn
Steven Wolock2020-07-17T11:36:13-04:00Meet Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Stephen Dunn at his home in Frostberg, Maryland and during his annual visit to the Murphy ...