Artist Firelei Báez
Firelei Báez was born, in 1981, in the Dominican Republic to Dominican and Haitian parents, and immigrated to the United States at...
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From the Desert to the Sea: A Video Conversation with Mark Doty – Poet, Essayist, Memoirist
MARK DOTY is a poet, essayist, and memoirist. He received the National Book Award for Poetry in 2008.
Doty is the author of nine books of poetry and four books of prose. In 2015, W.W. Norton published Deep Lane, “which the publisher calls a book of descents: into the earth beneath the garden, into the dark substrata of a life.” His volumes of poetry include Sweet Machine (HarperCollins, 1998), Source, (HarperCollins, 2002), School of the Arts (HarperCollins, 2005) and Fire to Fire: New and Selected Poems (HarperCollins, 2008), which received the National Book Award.
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Remembering Gail Sheehy – Author & Journalist
GAIL SHEEHY (1937-2020) was an iconic author, journalist, and lecturer. Sheehy is the author of seventeen books, including Passages (1976), named by the Library of Congress as one of the ten most influential books of our times. She has written biographies and character studies of major twentieth-century leaders, including Hillary Clinton, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev.
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Robert Battle: From Liberty City to the Big Apple
Dancer, choreographer ROBERT BATTLE became artistic director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in July 2011 after being personally selected by Judith Jamison, making him only the third person to head the Company since it was founded in 1958.
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Nicole Henry: Jazz Vocalist
With Whitney-Houston-like beauty, charisma, and vocal range, and an aunt who was a back-up singer for major performers like Patti LaBelle, NICOLE HENRY was originally drawn to pop music, but she was soon attracted to the richer, more complex lyrics and music of jazz.
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