Enoch Pratt Free Library Podcast

In his 50-year career as a negotiations expert, sports agent, New York Times bestselling author, attorney, business leader and educator, Ron Shapiro has discovered that people from all walks of life can make deals that achieve their goals if they embrace a systematic approach that focuses on making the deal and keeping strong relationships. Many dealmakers who play hardball by assuming a winner-take-all attitude risk alienating the party opposite them at the negotiating table, thereby losing out on future opportunities. In this revised and updated edition of The Power of Nice, Shapiro shows us how to use his Systematic Approach and do Win-Win deals.

Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous grant from PNC Bank.

Recorded On: Sunday, February 22, 2015

Writing poetry on themes: "What I Learned From An Extremely Unlikely Source" (like a comic book character, old lady in the grocery line, etc.) or "A Food Experience Which Became Something Much More."

Instructor:Clarinda Harriss is a professor emerita at Towson University whose poems and short fiction are widely anthologized. Her most recent books are The White Rail, Air Travel, Mortmain, and Dirty Blue Voice.

This is the second in a series of three workshops.

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Not lies, but poems whose form is based in some way on the Fibonacci Sequence, a numerical sequence found in nature.

Instructor: Clarinda Harriss is a professor emerita of English at Towson University whose poems and short fiction are widely anthologized. Her most recent books are The White Rail, Air Travel, Mortmain, and Dirty Blue Voice.

Recorded On: Wednesday, February 11, 2015

In The Real Cost of Fracking, Michelle Bamberger, a veterinarian, and Robert Oswald, a pharmacologist, show how hydraulic fracturing endangers the environment and harms people, pets, and livestock. They reveal the harrowing experiences of small farmers who have lost their animals and their livelihoods and of rural families whose property values have plummeted as their towns have been invaded by drillers.

Michelle Bamberger is the author of two books on first aid for cats and dogs. Robert Oswald is a professor of molecular medicine at Cornell University. They serve on the advisory board of Physicians, Scientists, and Engineers of Healthy Energy.

Presented in partnership with Baltimore GreenWorks and Food and Water Watch Maryland.

Writers LIVE programs are supported in part by a generous gift from PNC Bank.

Recorded On: Monday, February 9, 2015

April Ryan, White House correspondent for American Urban Radio Networks (AURN), gives readers a factual and compelling behind-the-scenes look at the inner workings of race relations as it relates to the White House. Ryan interviewed important figures who have been involved in race relations, have been advisors to the White House, or have covered the White House. These include President Obama, President Bill Clinton, Laura Bush, Condoleezza Rice, Rev. T.D. Jakes, Stevie Wonder, and many more.

As AURN’s White House correspondent, April Ryan is the only black female reporter covering urban issues from the White House, a position she has held since 1997. She hosts the daily feature, The White House Report, which is broadcast to AURN’s nearly 475 affiliated stations nationwide. Ryan grew up in and still resides in Baltimore.

The Brown Lecture Series is sponsored by a generous gift from the Eddie C. and C. Sylvia Brown Foundation.

Recorded On: Thursday, February 5, 2015