'Poets in Arkansas' Podcast From Pryor Center's Arkansas Story Vault Now Available on Spotify

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The Arkansas Story Vault team and poets.

The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History is pleased to announce a new podcast from Arkansas Story Vault, Poets in Arkansas, available now on Spotify and the Arkansas Story Vault website. Alessandro Salemme and students from the Honors College Research Team produced the podcast as part of the Poets in Arkansas project.

Arkansas is a state rich with talented poets, both past and present. By collecting oral interviews with Arkansas poets, students were able to piece together what makes Arkansas a special place for poets to grow, prosper and inspire. The podcast series alternates episodes that explore the poetry community in the state with the original poet interviews and poetry readings. Arkansas Story Vault is a part of the Pryor Center and provides students with hands-on experience in media production and community storytelling.

Salemme is a video producer at the Pryor Center and project lead for the Arkansas Story Vault program, designed to educate and involve students by encouraging their participation in preserving the cultural heritage of Arkansas. He has over 10 years of experience working in documentary filmmaking, education, and national and local news across the U.S. and the United Kingdom. Salemme holds a Bachelor of Arts in film studies and television production from the University of Chester, England. He sits on the Fayetteville Film Festival Board, which promotes filmmakers across the region and state.

Honors College Research Team students:

• Miceala Morano, sophomore, journalism; concentration in multimedia production and storytelling
• Janna Morse, sophomore, international and global studies; concentration in peace, security and human rights
• Ella Scurlock, junior, history and anthropology
• April Trotter, freshman, English; concentration in creative writing

About the David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History: The David and Barbara Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History is an oral history program with the mission to document the history of Arkansas through the collection of spoken memories and visual records, preserve the collection in perpetuity, and connect Arkansans and the world to the collection through the Internet, TV broadcasts, educational programs, and other means. The Pryor Center records audio and video interviews about Arkansas history and culture, collects other organizations' recordings, organizes these recordings into an archive, and provides public access to the archive, primarily through the website at pryorcenter.uark.edu. The Pryor Center is the state's only oral and visual history program with a statewide, seventy-five county mission to collect, preserve, and share audio and moving image recordings of Arkansas history.

About the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences: The Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences is the largest and most academically diverse unit on campus with three schools, 16 departments and 43 academic programs and research centers. The college provides the majority of the core curriculum for all University of Arkansas students.

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