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WUWM presents a public forum: Project Milwaukee: Youth Violence.Spring of 2008, Lake Effect and WUWM News journalists teamed up to examine the deep roots…

WUWM presents a public forum: Project Milwaukee: Youth Violence.Spring of 2008, Lake Effect and WUWM News journalists teamed up to examine the deep roots…

Jane Ciabattari is the author of the short-story collections Stealing The Fireand California Tales. Her reviews, interviews, and cultural reporting have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Daily Beast, the Paris Review, the Boston Globe, The Guardian, Bookforum, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and BBC.comamong others. She is a current vice president/online and former president of the National Book Critics Circle.

Jane Arraf covers Egypt, Iraq, and other parts of the Middle East for NPR News.

Jane Greenhalgh is a senior producer and editor on NPR's Science Desk.

Robert talks with Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman, authors of, Growing Up with Dick and Jane: Learning and Living the American Dream. The authors say the Dick and Jane readers represent an ideal of mid-century American life. Dick and Jane books, illustrated with dreamy watercolors, taught American children how to read from the 1930s through the 1960s. (5:15) (Stations: "Growing Up With Dick and Jane" is published by ScottFor

NPR's Cheryl Corley reports from Chicago on an exhibit of old Dick and Jane books. Dick, Jane, their loyal dog Spot, and other characters were the backbone of reading primers widely used in American schools through the sixties.

Jane Swift will shortly assume the duties as governor of Massachusetts, pending the confirmation of Paul Cellucci as the Bush administration's ambassador to Canada. Steve Tripoli of member station WBUR has prepared a profile on Swift, who will soon turn 36 and become the nation's youngest governor.

Jane Kenyon, poet, died in April of 1995 at age 47. She had lived in New Hampshire with her husband Donald Hall for 20 years. A new collection of her work titled "Otherwise" has been published, and this evening at Harvard University there's a gathering in tribute to her work. Noah talks with two of her friends and writing coclleagues, Joyce Peseroff and Alice Mattison, who explain that Kenyon's poetry is perfect for people who don't read many poems, but is also highly respected by her fellow poets.

Tennessee -- despite what the name might make you think -- was born and raised in the Northeast. She most recently called Vermont home. For the last 15 years she's been making radio -- as a youth radio educator, documentary producer, and now reporter. Her work has aired on Reveal, The Heart, LatinoUSA, Across Women's Lives from PRI, and American RadioWorks. One of her ongoing creative projects is co-producing Wage/Working (a jukebox-based oral history project about workers and income inequality). When she's not reporting, Tennessee likes to go on exploratory running adventures with her mutt Murray.