My guest this week is the poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, who talks about his time in prison and the redemptive nature of poetry.

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My guest in 2008 was the performance artist and singer/songwriter Laurie Anderson.

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A 2006 interview with Abbie Pickett, who served with the Army National Guard in Iraq. We discuss her tour of duty, sexual harassment in the military, and how to deal with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

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A 2007 interview with the Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng, whose life is immortalized in the semi-fictional book by Dave Eggers entitled “What Is the What?”

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A 2007 interview with Bill McKibben, author of "The End of Nature" and, "Deep Economy."

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A 2007 interview with Tariq Ali, author of The Clash of Fundamentalisms, among many other titles. We talk about the Iraq War, and the prospects of an Iran War.

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A 2006 interview with Martin Marty, emeritus professor of divinity at the University of Chicago. He’s the author of more than 50 books, and the co-editor of a crucially important series of five volumes on fundamentalism, a subject we discussed, along with Bush's messianic militarism.

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An interview with the great poet Martín Espada, author of The Republic of Poetry, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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A 2007 interview with the essayist and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, author of “The Open Space of Democracy.”

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An interview with Amira Hass, a reporter for the Israeli paper Ha’aretz who was won numerous press freedom awards for her courageous reporting from the Occupied Territories, where she lives.

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A 2006 interview with George Takei, Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, who works with the Human Rights Campaign to combat the rightwing's push against gay marriage.

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A 2005 interview with Philip Gourevitch, the editor of the Paris Review. He is the author of "We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families." We talked about U.S. politics, and about the genocide in Rwanda.

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A 2006 interview with feminist scholar Cynthia Enloe. We talked about women in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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A 2005 interview with Si Kahn, a folksinger, activist, author, and organizer. I spoke with him about his life, his music, and the keys to becoming a good organizer.

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A 2006 interview with the Nobel Prize-winner in economics Joseph Stiglitz, author of "Making Globalization Work." We talk about this book, as well as the costs of the Iraq War.

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