Coleman Barks
Poet and former English professor at Georgia who, working from John Moyne's literal translations, rendered Rumi into the colloquial American English that made the thirteenth-century Sufi poet the best-selling poet in the United States by the 1990s.
Krista Tippett
Host of On Being — the Peabody-winning radio show and podcast where the biggest questions (what it means to be human, how we live together, what matters in the end) are asked of poets, scientists, and spiritual teachers. Nobody listens more carefully in contemporary American media.
Architecture
The art of shaping space — how buildings form the invisible container of…
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Headphones, speakers, sound made with care. The hardware of how you actu…
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The body as instrument — movement as communication before language.…
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Clothing as culture, identity, and expression — where design meets the b…
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Moving image as storytelling — cinema at its best as the collective drea…
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Books that change the inside of the reader — the novels, essays, and tra…
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Sound organised into meaning — perhaps the most universal human art form…
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The art of the decisive moment — freezing light and time into meaning.…
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Form pulled out of resistance — stone, bronze, wood, clay, light, ice. T…
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The ancient technology of narrative — how stories shape identity, cultur…
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Live performance as ritual — the oldest form of communal storytelling.…
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Painting, sculpture, installation, and image — art that speaks through w…
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