I am sarah broom and i am in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is at once a basic but also important question about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted to speak into a void in the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my 50 nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives mattered and how we deserved to also be on the american map, and then the city story of itself. This book is not only a book about a house that i lived in and that i loved and that in certain ways remains a part of me, but its really an attempt to think about what it actually means to belong to a place, what it means to feel that you have some outcome from a place that has shaped you a major into the person you are. For me, american ingenuity, i understand this i think deeply because i come from the city were jazz was born. So what jazz teaches us is that we pull
President hang out the banner, well take ike to washington. Where were going, travel day and night well all go with ike. You like ike, i like ike everybody likes ike well hang out the banner well take ike to washington now is the time for all good americans to come to the aid of their country. Ike. So glad bob. N, bob ike. E. Bob. Im so glad were friends again, bob. Yes, ike. we agree on everything. Lets never separate again, bob. Never again, ike. Bob. Ike. Bob. Ike. Will ike and bob really live happily ever after . Is the white house big enough for both of them . Stay tuned for a musical interlude. Ruben, reuben, ive been thinking bob and ike now think alike with the general in the white house amorders, bob. Eofof the or ike . Ill vote for adlai and johne were pleased to be joined by professor of Mass Communications and author of daisy petals and mushroom jo clouds. A look at tv political advertising. Professor mann, thank you for joining us here. Thank you. Good to be with you this
Poet and educator in seattle and the author of free poetry collections including 2012 room. Also the New Washington poet laureate 21222014 and currently serving on the board of jack straw a local studio. Here today talking about the apocalypse factory. Please join me to welcome steve olson. Thanks. As you know kathleen published a book of poems in 2012 and all of those are about hanford. And then she will we eat paul from her new book of poems entitled post romantic coming out in october from the university of washington press. So to make sure my slides will work i will project her words onto a screen. Banks. And to say before i read the poem how im pleased to be a part of this evening and its wonderful to celebrate the publication of this book not just because i have poems in it but they are not told us much as i think they should be and then to get the story out i have learned all kinds of things from it and out there for people to read. This is the poem and its called stories that w
Cabletelevision companies as a Public Service and brought you today by your television provider. History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. I am sarah broom and i am in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is at once a basic but also important question about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted to speak into a void in the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my 50 nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives mattered and how we deserved to also be on the american map, and then the city story of itself. This book is not only a book about a house that i lived in and that i loved and that in certain ways remains a part of me, but its really an attempt to think about what it actually means to belong to a place, what it means to feel that you have somehow from a place that has shaped you a major into the person you are. For me
History on biography, sponsored by wells fargo. Hi, i am sarah and i am in harlem. I wrote the yellow house to answer what is the basic but also the Center Russian about who belongs, whose stories get told. I wanted speak into a boy in the literature. I wondered why the stories of me and my family and my nieces and nephews didnt exist in the narrative of new orleans. I wanted to make a book that was the beginning of an answer to a question about how our lives matter and how we deserve to also be on the american map and the citys story. This book is not only a book about the house i lived in and loved and in certain ways, the part of me but it is an attempt to think about what it actually means to belong to a place. What it means to feel that you have come from a place thats shaped you and made you into the person you are. For me, american ingenuity, i understand i think deeply because i come from the city where jazz is born. So we pull from all the different pieces of the world, the th