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The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music's Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It's the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. This is so enchanting. The painted scrim, the scenery trees are not only a setting for Sara Watkins and her bandmates, but we also discover a "magic desk." And as Sara lifts the desk's top, we hear a guitar playing an alluring melody; in fact, it's Harry Nilsson's dreamy song "Blanket For a Sail." I admired Sara's talents fir...

Thursday, May 13, 2021 by Bob Boilen (NPR) Sara Watkins performs a Tiny Desk (home) concert. Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM or HD radio, the WMFE mobile app or your smart speaker — say “Alexa, play NPR” and you’ll be connected. The Tiny Desk is working from home for the foreseeable future. Introducing NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (home) concerts, bringing you performances from across the country and the world. It’s the same spirit — stripped-down sets, an intimate setting — just a different space. This is so enchanting. The painted scrim...

Published September 13, 2019 The U.S. Postal Service is honoring the 200th anniversary of the birth of Walt Whitman with a new stamp in its Literary Arts series, "commemorating the life, work and words of the poet some revere as the 'Father of Modern American Poetry,' at his Long Island birthplace." Whitman's poetry was modern in "the topics and themes explored - freedom, human dignity, and democracy," said Cara Greene, USPS vice president, controller. "Whitman was more than a giant in American literature, he was a remarkable human being who helped nurse thousands of the Civil War's sick and ...

These credits have been accumulated over the course of the year from dust jackets, Acknowledgments sections and copyright pages in works, cover reveal blog posts, and other sources on the internet. This year, Filers Martin Pyne and Karen B. also collected this information, and though we had a lot of overlap, their extra entries have greatly increased the information we are able to provide you. My profound thanks go to Martin and Karen for all of their hard work. You can see the full combined spreadsheet of Editor and Artist credits here (I will be continuing to update this as I get more inf...

NewsHour Weekend producer Sam Weber joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss this year’s "Roads to Election 2020" coverage: taking a whole show on the road during the pandemic, keeping climate change front and center and finding and telling election stories that were a little off the beaten path. Read the Full Transcript Michael Hill: At year's end, we like to introduce you to some of the producers and reporters behind the stories on our broadcast. Hari Sreenivasan spoke with producer Sam Weber about some of the road trips they were able to take in the lead up to the election. Hari Sreenivasan: