Exploring Your Creative Genius: ‘The Rhythmical Creation of Beauty’
This week’s show was a conversation with Judith Pacht, an award-winning poet who has become one of my favorites. I offer you here some quotes from poets about poetry.
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Columns
Past Rhymes With Present Times: ICE Detention Centers and the Trail of Tears
America’s illegal war against Iran has become the most recent example of how Trumpism resembles Napoleonic authoritarianism by launching foreign military assaults during a time in which the government continues to arrest and imprison people who live within the nation’s political borders.
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Tobacco Road South? Reviewing the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament in Duluth, Ga.
Instead of Greensboro, the ACC planted its basketball flag in Duluth, Ga. for its 2026 women’s basketball tournament. How has it worked out?
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Bottom Line With Brad: Path Dependency
It’s not the destination, it’s the journey. We’ve all heard this life advice at some point or another, and it really is useful – in a world that is more focused every day on the next milestone, the next challenge and the next news cycle – appreciating what is going on along your path is essential.
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This Just In: Go Heels, Beat Dook!
This Just In — I yearn for something normal, so let me start out with just that — let’s beat Duke on Saturday!
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Little Big Moments: Ross Gay and the Study of Joy
UNC’s 2026 Frank B. Hanes Writer-In-Residence Reading was given this Monday, March 2, by Ross Gay, one of my favorite writers.
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Holding Court: What Seth Trimble Had To Say Before, During His Senior Night
Last summer, long before the start of his fourth and final season at UNC, senior guard Seth Trimble already had contemplated the aftermath of his final home game at the Smith Center.
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This Just In: The State of the Union
This Just In — The State of our Union is much stronger than it feels right now and not in the ways that our current president would like.
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Little Big Moments: How Are You?
I’m fine. Pretty good, I guess. Well, there’s a lot going on. I’m busy, yes, but the country … My God, every time the President opens his mouth, another lie!
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Holding Court: Wilson-Veesaar Tandem Could Take Carolina To All-ACC Heights
There was a time, decades ago, when North Carolina regularly placed two players on the five-man, first-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference squad.
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