Literature

Maya Angelou: Keynote Address

Maya Angelou

Maria Arana: American Bridgework; How Different are the Two Americas?

Maria Arana

Notes from All Over: An Evening with Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson

Billy Collins: Ballistics, A Reading by Billy Collins

Billy Collins 2008

Billy Collins: Horoscopes for the Dead; A Reading

Billy Collins 2011

Billy Collins: Writing With Light; A Conversation about Photography and Poetry

Billy Collins 2012

Billy Collins: Aimless Love; A Reading

Billy Collins 2013

Adventures in Poetry: Featuring Billy Collins and Our Best High School Poets

Billy Collins 2014

Billy Collins: The Rain in Portugal — Reading and Discussion

Billy Collins 2016

Beyond the Birdbath: Poems from Several Time Zones

Billy Collins 2017

What Poets Talk About When They Talk About Love

Billy Collins 2019

Poetry and Music—Aspiring to the Condition of the Other

Billy Collins 2020

Billy Collins, Anthony Bannon, & Ed Kashi: Writing With Light; A Conversation about Photography and Poetry

Photo & Poetry Conversation

Greg Dawson: From Ukraine to Juilliard; A Piano Prodigy’s Holocaust Odyssey

Greg Dawson

Jules Feiffer: “My Life and Funny Times”

Jules Feiffer

Roberto Fernandez: Writing From the Margins; A Cuban-American Perspective

Roberto Fernandez

An Evening with Grant Hill: The GAME Tour

Grant Hill

2010 Animated Magazine Presenters

Animated Magazine 2010

2012 Animated Magazine Presentations

Animated Magazine 2012

David McCullough: History and the Love of Learning

David McCullough

The Art of Leadership: Lessons from the American Presidency

Jon Meacham

Tears of Laughter; A Reading by Daniel Menaker

Daniel Menaker

Michael Phillips: “Blake and the Terror 1792-1793: In Search of Biography”

Michael Phillips

Sharon Robinson: Values, Baseball, and Jackie Robinson

Sharon Robinson

Salman Rushdie: Keynote Address

Salman Rushdie

Writers & Editors Symposium: Marriages in Limbo

Writers/Editors Symposium

The Arts and Social Responsibility: A Symposium

Writers Symposium 2010

The Changing Landscape of Immigration, Travel, and America

Jose Antonio Vargas

Richard Guy Wilson: Gilded Age Guerrilla; Edith Wharton’s Revolution in Literature and Architecture

Richard Guy Wilson

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