America has a long and rich history of Black comics and comic books. We meet Rider University professor Sheena ...
Emari DiGiorgio, Poet
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T16:46:32-04:00Emari DiGiorgio premiered her first published book of poems, "The Things A Body Might Become," at World Above, an ...
Joel Dias-Porter
Steven Wolock2020-07-21T15:12:37-04:00State of the Arts profiles the extraordinary writer Joel Dias-Porter, a published poet and National Poetry Slam winner. He supports ...
Jazz in the Key of Ellison
Steven Wolock2021-08-16T13:46:52-04:00The New Jersey Performing Arts Center, NJPAC, in Newark, NJ celebrated the great American writer Ralph Ellison with a ...
Jhumpa Lahiri "In Other Words"
Steven Wolock2020-08-13T11:29:00-04:00Author Jhumpa Lahiri considers herself linguistically an orphan. Although one of the most honored and widely read fiction writers in America ...
Caregivers Stories
Steven Wolock2020-07-21T16:44:28-04:00The role of caregiver is one that many of us will take on at some point in our lives - ...
Couple of an Age
Steven Wolock2021-07-13T10:05:45-04:00After Charles Lindbergh flew solo from New York to Paris, he became the most famous man in the world. ...
Gregory Pardlo
Steven Wolock2020-07-22T13:08:39-04:00We recently caught up with poet Gregory Pardlo at a reading he gave at Villanova University. At the age of 46, ...
I Might Be Next
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T17:08:00-04:00I Might Be Next: Jerry Gant & Bryant Lebron is an exhibit at the Criminal Justice Gallery at Rutgers University, Newark, ...
Poetry State
Steven Wolock2020-07-22T12:10:56-04:00Find out why New Jersey isn't just the Garden State - it's also the Poetry State. We talk to New ...
Clark Stoeckley
Steven Wolock2020-08-13T11:11:43-04:00When activist and artist Clark Stoeckley took his WikiLeaks truck to support Chelsea Manning during nearly two years of trial ...
The Fog of War
Steven Wolock2021-08-30T11:33:31-04:00Veterans write poems, and create art using paper made from their old uniforms. State of the Arts NJ visits ...
Song of Myself
Steven Wolock2020-07-22T16:03:37-04:00Mount Holly, New Jersey artist Allen Crawford has illustrated a edition of Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself." Meet the artist ...
Brenda Shaughnessy
Steven Wolock2020-07-22T15:40:23-04:00Poet Brenda Shaughnessy has published three books of poems, including "Our Andromeda" in 2012. In a review, the NY Times ...
The School for Wives
Steven Wolock2020-07-22T14:52:22-04:00Two River Theater reboots Moliere's classic comedy The School for Wives, which satirized the battle of the sexes in 17th ...
Allen Ginsberg
Steven Wolock2020-07-23T09:59:59-04:00From the State of the Arts archive, a story about legendary New Jersey poet Allen Ginsberg. In 1986, State of the Arts met with ...
Maya Angelou
Steven Wolock2020-07-23T09:57:54-04:00From the State of the Arts archive, a 1988 interview with the indispensable Maya Angelou.
Amiri Baraka
Steven Wolock2020-07-23T09:56:07-04:00A look back at the life and career of one of New Jersey's most famous poets, Amiri Baraka, who died ...
Grapefruit
Steven Wolock2020-09-22T17:45:10-04:00We recently featured a segment on one of America’s most acclaimed poets: Gerald Stern. We followed him to a couple ...
Boardwalk Empire
Steven Wolock2023-10-25T12:03:13-04:00State of the Arts meets the author of Boardwalk Empire, Nelson Johnson. His New York Times Best-Selling book inspired HBO's hit ...