Category Archives: Other Writers

Three Ways To Speak English
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have Jamila Lyiscott who is a self-professed “tri-tongued orator.” She weaves words about language, education, and the African Diaspora. In her powerful spoken-word essay, “Broken English,” she celebrates — and challenges — the … Continue reading

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The Web’s Secret Stories
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Brooklyn-based artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris who works to make sense of the emotional world of the web. With deep compassion for the human condition, his projects troll the internet … Continue reading

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What Makes a Word “Real?”
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have English professor and linguist Anne Curzan who asks: what makes a word real? Curzan is a collector of slang words, a dissector of colloquialisms and a charter of language evolution. To put … Continue reading

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An Ode to Envy
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have literary critic Parul Sehgal who asks: what is jealousy? What drives it, and why do we secretly love it? No study has ever been able to capture its “loneliness, longevity, grim … Continue reading

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Everyday Moments, Caught in Time
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. He is an English professor at City University of New York, where he has taught for more than 40 years. Accessibility is not a word … Continue reading

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The Art of the Deep Yes
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we have one of my all-time favorite bloggers, the self-proclaimed badass writer, Justine Musk. Actually, I don’t think she needs to tell anyone she’s a badass. We can read (or watch) her work … Continue reading

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Celebrating Life on the Spectrum
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Back when I inherited Storied Nights: An Evening of Spoken Word in late May 2013, I might have had no clue what I was going to do for programming in the short-term, but I knew I wanted to do an … Continue reading

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Adventures in Twitter Fiction
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Andrew Fitzgerald who is shaping new ways for Twitter and writers to work together. In the 1930s, broadcast radio introduced an entirely new form of storytelling; today, micro-blogging platforms like Twitter are … Continue reading

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Poems of War, Peace, Women, Power
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching poet Suheir Hammad perform two spine-tingling spoken-word pieces: What I Will and break (clustered) — meditations on war and peace, on women and power. She blends the stories and sounds of … Continue reading

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The Web As Art
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Welcome to another Tuesday with TED. Today we’re watching Brooklyn-based artist and computer scientist Jonathan Harris who collects stories: his own, strangers’, and stories collected from the internet, including his amazing project, We Feel Fine, which works to make sense of … Continue reading

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