Arts

Host Kenn Michael speaks with Douglas Ovens, Muhlenberg College, Music Department Chair about the Love Songs and Other Wonders concert celebrating his 60th Birthday and his composed works on Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 8pm in the Empie Theatre of the Baker Center for the Arts on the Muhlenberg College campus. The concert is free and open to the public.

Host Eleanor Bobrow talks with poet and workshop facilitator Lisa DeVuono.  She believes in writing toward wellness; the idea that writing can give us the creative power we need to find solutions to our problems. (Original air date February 18, 2013.)

Economist Sonali Deraniyagala lost her husband, parents and two young sons in the terrifying Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. They had been vacationing on the southern coast of her home country Sri Lanka when the wave struck. Wave is her brutal but lyrically written account of the awful moment and the grief-crazed months after, as she learned to live with her almost unbearable losses — and allow herself to remember details of her previous life.