Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

 Hosted by the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University.Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Phillips and Natasha Trethewey gave a special reading as part of the 30th anniversary celebration for Callaloo , the premier journal of literature, art, and culture of the African Diaspora. Founded in 1976 by editor Charles H. Rowell in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Callaloo publishes original works and critical studies of black artists and writers worldwide.Yusef Komunyakaa's numerous books of poems include Neon Vernacular (1994), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Komunyakaa is a chancellor of The Academy of American Poets and a professor in the Council of Humanities and Creative Writing Program at Princeton University.Carl Phillips' collection The Rest of Love (2004) won the Theodore Roethke Memorial Foundation Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry. He has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His recent colle

Author and national radio personality Garrison Keillor reads from his new Lake Wobegon novel, PONTOON.Evelyn was a Sanctified Brethren woman of good standing, a devoted mother, a serious quilter. Only after she dies in her sleep, as she always wished she would, do we find out that she has been living a secret life. Garrison Keillor's latest Lake Wobegon novel is about courage and transformation in a town stuck in its ways.Keillor is the host and writer of the public radio program, A Prairie Home Companion, now in its 30th year. He is the author of 16 books, most recently the New York Times bestseller Homegrown Democrat.Presented in partnership with WYPR and The Ivy Bookshop. Recorded On: Saturday, October 27, 2007

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Wild Mountain Thyme -- First recorded by Francis McPeake (of Ulster, Ireland) in 1957

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Planxty Fanny Power -- composed before 1728 by blind Irish harper Turlough O'Carolan (1670-1738).

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Give Me Your Hand (Tabhair domh do Lámh) -- composed in 1603 by Ruainn Dall O'Catháin (d. 1653)Halting March -- Traditional

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Rights of Man -- Traditional

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Denis Murphy's Polka -- by fiddler Denis Murphy (d. 1974) of County Kerry, Ireland

This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Moonlight In Mayo -- Traditional

 This performance was part of the Playin' o' the Green Casual Concert series at Central Library, which featured traditional irish folk music. Recorded March 14, 2007 at 12:00 p.m.John Damond - guitar and mandolin Erin Kelly - concertina and guitar Andrea Snyder - violin Irish Washerwoman -- Traditional