The Short Fuse Podcast

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet, performer, and translator. His poem have appeared in DIAGRAM , Lambda Literary , Foundry , and Best New Poets , among other places. He is the recipient of scholarships from Poets House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Prior to joining The Poetry Project, he served as co-director of National Outreach and Mem...

Joshua Whitehead Joshua Whitehead is a Two-Spirit, Oji-nêhiyaw member of Peguis First Nation (Treaty 1). He holds a Ph. D. from the University of Calgary where he teaches Indigenous literatures and cultures with a focus on gender and sexuality.  His book of poetry, full-metal indigiqueer  (Talonbooks 2017), was shortlisted for the inaugural Indigenous Voices Award and the Stephan G. Stephansson Aw...

Free Tasha Shelby is the website where you can learn more about Tasha's case.  To support Tasha: Governor Tate Reeves : C  Governor’s office,  call 601-359-3150/ email governor@govreeves.ms.gov . Lynn Fitch, Mississippi Attorney General:   601.359.3680 /P.O. Box 220, Jackson MS 3920 Valena Beety is a law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly...

Bloomberg Public Arts Challenge  Audio used in the episode has been contributed by Bloomberg Philanthropies' Public Art Challenge.  Artist David Best's Temple of Time brought the communities of Parkland and Coral Springs, Florida together on the one-year anniversary of the school shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The Greenwood Art Project in Tulsa, Oklahoma commemorated the centen...

Diane Glancy is a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, and professor emeritus at Macalester College. Her works have won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. and the Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award from the Oklahoma Center the Book, among other awards. In 2018, Publishers Weekly named her book Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears one of the ten essential Native American novels. T...

Diane Alters Diane Alters is a lecturer in journalism at Colorado College. She has worked as an editor or reporter for several publications, including the Boston Globe, the Sacramento Bee and the Denver Post and is co-author of Media, Home and Family (Routledge 2004). Her exquisite book of poetry, Breath, Suspended, (Finishing Line Press 2022.) was described by a critic as, “What it means to write...

Valena Beety  is a law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly convicted clients, founded the West Virginia Innocence Project, and obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses. She served as an appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor's Indigent Defense Commission. She is currently a professor of law at Arizona State...

Amy D. Clark,  PhD, Amy Clark is a professor of Appalachian and Communication Studies at the University of Virginia’s College at Wise, where she is the founding co-director of the Center for Appalachian Studies, and founding Director of the Appalachian Writing Project. She is author and co-editor of  Talking Appalachian: Voice, Identity, and Community  (University Press of Kentucky). Her work on A...

  Meredith Hall  Meredith Hall's memoir  Without a Map  was instantly recognized as a classic of the genre and became a  New York Times  bestseller. It was named a best book of the year by  Kirkus  and  BookSense , and was an  Elle magazine Reader’s Pick of the Year. Hall was a recipient of the 2004 Gift of Freedom Award from A Room of Her Own Foundation. Her work has appeared in Five Points ,  Th...

  Mark Goldsmith , author of From Madison Avenue to Rikers Island: The Making of a Social Entrepreneur, is founder and CEO emeritus of Getting Out and Staying Out, a nonprofit that provides educational, vocational, job readiness, counseling, and other services to young men who have been incarcerated. Prior to his nonprofit work, Goldsmith was an executive in the cosmetics industry for more than 35...

Gwendolyn Brooks: A Poet's Work in the Community opened at the Morgan Library on January 28 and will be on view through June 5, 2022. Comprising more than forty manuscripts, broadsides, and first editions, the exhibition explores Brooks’s roles as a poet, teacher, mentor, and community leader. The exhibition traces the effect of the resulting relationships on her work and the work of other creativ...

Charlie Bennet is a Swedish-born photographer based in New York City. He specializes in still life and lifestyle photography and has worked with editorial and advertising clients such as The New York Times , Nike and Wallpaper. Bennet has published five books prior to ON PAUSE and has exhibited his work both in the United States and Europe.  Helena Gustavsson is a Swedish journalist based in New Y...

Sumaya Hisham is a freelance photojournalist based in Cape Town. She is passionate about capturing images of people in their daily lives.  She covers news and cultural events for a variety of clients, including news agencies such as Reuters, the European Press Photo Agency, and Getty Images. Her work has appeared in Washington Post, LA Times, Times UK, Irish Times, Guardian, and Newsweek .  She wo...

Jeannine Otis was born and raised in Detroit, and now lives in Staten Island, She has been a singular and substantial voice for four decades, drawing equally from jazz, classical, dance, gospel and pop genres. New York Times c ritic, Anthony Tomassini,  described Ms. Otis as a “show-stopper” in the role of Ella Worker in Downtown Music Production’s staging of The Cradle Will Rock . She is a gradua...

Simon Mundy is a journalist with the Financial Times . He is  currently the  Moral Money Editor – covering the push for a cleaner and more sustainable world economy for the award-winning Moral Money platform.  His career began in  Johannesburg, covering Southern Africa for the FT. After a stint as a corporate reporter in London he spent seven years in Asia, heading the FT bureau in Seoul and  Mumb...

DTR Modern Galleries Halim Flowers Autodidact, Halim A. Flowers (b. 1980, Washington, DC) visual artist, spoken word performer, businessman, and author of eleven published non-fiction works, is married to L. Patrice McKinney, raising a family in Washington, DC. A Member of the Board of Directors of The Frederick Douglass Project for Justice and Cultural DC, he is an ardent advocate for human right...

Bryan Halperin is a co-founder and Producer of Powerhouse Theatre Collaborative, a new program of The Belknap Mill in Laconia, NH and the resident theatre company of the Colonial Theatre in Laconia.  Previously he was co-founder of The Winnipesaukee Playhouse.  From 2004 through 2014 Bryan was Executive Director of the Playhouse and besides his managerial duties was involved with the Artistic Dire...

The South African Cultural Center, New York City The value of cultural diplomacy has long been acknowledged as a critical component in the projection of a nation's identity. On September 23, 2021, the South African Consulate General in New York opened a Cultural Center at 845 Third Avenue. The inaugural exhibition, celebrating South Africa's Heritage Day, was an exhibition in the  gallery of South...

  Lynne Sachs is a Memphis born, Brooklyn based filmmaker. Since the 1980s, Sachs has created cinematic works that defy genre through the use of hybrid forms and collaboration, incorporating elements of the essay film, collage, performance, documentary and poetry. Her films explore the intricate relationship between personal observations and broader historical experiences. With each project, she i...

Stephen Petronio is a choreographer, dancer, and the artistic director of the Stephen Petronio Company.  Stephen has created over 35 works for his company and has been commissioned by some of the world’s most prestigious modern and ballet companies, including William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt (1987), Deutsche Opera Berlin (1992), Lyon Opera Ballet (1994), Maggio Danza Florence (1996), Sydney Dan...

Kyle Dacuyan is a poet, performer, and translator. His poem have appeared in DIAGRAM , Lambda Literary , Foundry , and Best New Poets , among other places. He is the recipient of scholarships from Poets House, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, and the Academy of American Poets. Prior to joining The Poetry Project, he served as co-director of National Outreach and Mem...

Promise, Witness, Remembrance  (on view from April 6 to June 11, 2021) at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, was curated by Allison Glenn and reflects on the life of Breonna Taylor, her killing in 2020, and the year of protests that followed. The exhibition is organized around the three words of its title, which emerged from a conversation between curator Allison Glenn and Tamika Palmer...

New England Conservatory of Music Jason Maron Nedelka F. Prescod The Un-Silenced Voice Project Dreaming Girls Foundation South African Institute of International Affairs Naledi Masilo is a vocalist, composer, educator and founder of the Dreaming Girls Foundation, a South African based non-profit. She grew up in Johannesburg  where she cultivated a love for music through backyard jam sessions and e...

Turtle Point Press  House of Anansi Brooklyn Book Festival Lit & Luz Festival Writers Bone  Otherppl with Brad Listi Paul Holdengraber Lauren Cerand is a  writer and  arts and literary publicist with twenty years of experience running her own thriving global communications consultancy, based in New York and driven by an intensive personal focus on each client’s needs and desires, a vast network of...

City Lights Bookstore  Mary Beth Meehan and  Fred Turner launch Seeing Silicon Valley,  Monday, May 3, 2021, 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 ET, through a virtual Zoom platform event hosted by City Lights Bookstore.  Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston, Massachusetts  Event on May 13, 2021 at 7:00 ET Mary Beth Meehan , is a distinguished  photographer known for her large-scale community-based portraiture. ...