Between Home and Here: Ghanaian-American Poets on Identity and Voice
In this episode, WIR Cynthia Amoah sits down with Ghanaian-American poets Claudia Owusu and Tasha Lomo for a layered conversation about language, place, and what it means to write and create from the ...
29 Aug 202559min
Four Women with Dr Jack Marchbanks and Gamal Brown
Dr Jack Marchbanks and Gamal Brown sit down with us to talk about the legacies of Four Women: Maya Angelou, Lorraine Hansberry, Abbey Lincoln, and Nina Simone. These icons of African American artistic...
28 Feb 202533min
Y2K Twenty Five Years Later with Directors Brian Becker and Marley McDonald
Happy New Year! Explore the Y2K scare with technology librarian, Josh, as he interviews Marley Mcdonald and Brian Becker, directors of the HBO documentary Time Bomb Y2K. We'll revisit the global pani...
31 Dec 202455min
Hanif Abdurraqib on Basketball and Ascension
We are excited to invite Hanif Abdurraqib back to the podcast to discuss writing, building community around art, and basketball! Hanif is a poet, essayist, and cultural critic from Columbus, Ohio whos...
10 Maj 202439min
Best of 2023!
The best of 2023! Timestamps Adult Fiction (:24) The Hexologists by Josiah Bancroft Bookshops and Bonedust by Travis Baldtree System Collapse by Martha Wells Even though I knew the End by C. L. Polk...
20 Dec 202339min
Book Banning and Censorship in America with Grace Ellis and Sabrina Baêta
Banned Books Week is an annual celebration of the freedom to read. The theme for Banned Books Week 2023 is “Let Freedom Read” and it’s being celebrated from October 1-7. A PEN America report for the f...
18 Sep 202340min
Understanding Artificial Intelligence - a conversation with Dr. Ness B. Shroff
Ohio State Electrical and Computer Engineering Professor, Ness B. Shroff, and BPL Technology Librarian, Josh Bryant, discuss the fascinating world of artificial intelligence (AI), including its histor...
30 Juni 202355min
