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The Poetry Society of New York
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Radio Drama Network (Melina Brown, President) was founded by legendary audio drama director and producer, Himan Brown, to support art forms that use the spoken word to enrich our culture. Himan was a champion of all storytellers, from the tradition of the earliest stranger who wandered from town to town with tales of the latest news, to Academy Award winning writers that contributed to his thousands of radio dramas, to the writers silenced by the Red Scare who were just trying to feed their families; Hi
During the height of radio, he created hundreds of radio series such as Inner Sanctum, Little Italy, Grand Central Station, Dick Tracy, The Shadow, Bulldog Drummond, and The Thin Man. Following television’s rise, he resurrected audio drama on the airwaves with CBS Radio Mystery Theater and Adventure Theater. Himan Brown lamented the dearth of dramatic and interesting programming on today’s airwaves, and he continued to create shows and series well into his 90s. Himan created the Radio Drama Network as a fam
—Himan Brown, upon winning the American Broadcast Pioneer Award in 1999
Nuyorican Poets Cafe
The Poetry Society of New York
Nuyorican Poets Cafe