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Welcome to the Lannan Foundation podcast, a home for cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity. Here, we celebrate exceptional contemporary artists, writers, and activists and delve into inspiring readings and conversations with leading literary figures and advocates for social, political, and environmental justice.
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This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from November 18, 2009.
Noam Chomsky with Tariq Ali

Noam Chomsky with Tariq Ali

2024-12-1101:53:05

This is a recording of a In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from January 26, 2005.
This is a recording of a Readings and Conversations event from November 10, 2021.
This a recording of a Poetry Sunday event from Oct 13, 2019.
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from May 15, 2013.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from September 29, 1999.
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from March 7, 2018.
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from October 5, 2021.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from April 10, 2024.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from December 4, 2019.
Eve L. Ewing with Wayne Au

Eve L. Ewing with Wayne Au

2024-03-1301:29:01

This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from November 13, 2019.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from September 11, 2019.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from October 11, 2018.
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from October 10, 2012.
Some of the most important poets writing today come together to celebrate Copper Canyon Press, an institution that has had an outsized role in sustaining the artform for more than half a century. Marking Copper Canyon Press’s 50th anniversary as an independent publisher dedicated to poetry, this reading by a Pulitzer Prize winner and a Poet Laureate testifies to poetry’s remarkable adaptability. Jericho Brown delivers innovative poetic forms that express the pain—and beauty—of Black and queer life. And Paisley Rekdal presents hybrid text-and-media works that reexamine the history of the West through the stories of the laborers who built it. National Book Award winner and longtime Santa Fe resident Arthur Sze opens the event with a discussion of the history of Lannan Foundation and Copper Canyon Press and their importance to American literature. Copper Canyon Executive Editor Michael Wiegers then introduces the readers, joining all the participants afterward in a closing conversation about poetry’s continued importance as we face the future.  
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from May 15, 2013.
This is a recording of a Readings & Conversations event from March 14, 2018. Roxane Gay is an author and cultural critic. Her works include the story collection Difficult Women and Ayiti, a blend of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry interwoven into a tale of the Haitian diaspora. In her essay collection Bad Feminist, she writes, “I never want to be placed on a Feminist Pedestal. People who are placed on pedestals are expected to pose, perfectly. Then they get knocked off…. Consider me already knocked off.” Gay’s most recent book is Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body. The New York Times writes, “At its simplest, it’s a memoir about being fat — Gay’s preferred term — in a hostile, fat-phobic world. At its most symphonic, it’s an intellectually rigorous and deeply moving exploration of the ways in which trauma, stories, desire, language and metaphor shape our experiences and construct our reality.” Gay is the author of the comic series World of Wakanda and is the first African American woman to write for Marvel Comics. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
This is a recording of an In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom event from September 18, 2002. Arundhati Roy is an Indian author, actor, and political activist. Her debut novel, The God of Small Things, received the 1997 Booker Prize, and her second novel, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize and was a finalist for the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award. She is an outspoken advocate of environmental and human rights causes, which has often placed her at odds with Indian legal authorities and her country’s middle-class establishment. Her many works of nonfiction include An Ordinary Person’s Guide to Empire; Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers; Capitalism: A Ghost Story; The End of Imagination; Things That Can and Cannot Be Said (with John Cusack); and The Doctor and the Saint: Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste, the Debate Between B.R. Ambedkar and M.K. Gandhi. In 2019, Haymarket Books published My Seditious Heart, a collection of her essays from the past twenty years. Roy was the recipient of the 2002 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize. Howard Zinn (August 24, 1922 - January 27, 2010) was a historian, playwright, and activist. His classic book, A People’s History of the United States, has been called “a brilliant and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those who have been exploited politically and economically and whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories.” Zinn grew up in Brooklyn in a working-class, immigrant household. At 18 he became a shipyard worker and then flew bomber missions during World War II. These experiences helped shape his opposition to war and his passion for history. After attending college under the GI Bill and earning a PhD in history from Columbia, he taught at Spelman College, where he became active in the civil rights movement. After being fired by the college for his support for student protesters, Zinn became a professor of Political Science at Boston University, where he taught until his retirement in 1988. Zinn was the author of many books, including an autobiography, You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train and Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice. He received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Eugene V. Debs award for his writing and political activism.