February 21, 2024

Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola joins us to mark Black History Month. We’ll discuss her poem inspired by the book Beloved and a mother’s agonizing decision. From there, theater artist P Carl. He built a career, a marriage and a life as queer woman. But all the while he had a yearning to become more fully realized. For him that meant transitioning to another gender. He wrote about the transformation in his 2020 memoir, “Becoming a Man,” which he’s now adapted for the stage in a play making its world premier at the American Repertory Theater. He joins us to talk about seeing his life, brought to life on the stage. Finally, we meet the people behind an event turning the silver screen into a silver scream: The Dead of Winter Horror Festival.