The Story

When Andrew Porter started as a writer, his success seemed charmed. He got into a prestigious writers workshop, got a story published in a national magazine and soon after found an agent. Late one night when he was nearly done writing his first book, he came home to find his apartment burglarized. All of his writing - computer, backups, printed copies - was gone.

Rachel Zucker was on the phone with a friend the day before President Obama's inauguration, when the two poets had a eureka moment. They decided to find 100 poets who would sign up to write a poem for each of Obama's first 100 days in office.

Artist Anna Schuleit is on a mission to give voice to people who have been institutionalized and forgotten.

Anna won a 2006 fellowship from MacArthur Foundation for her large-scale installations using color and sound in historic sites and structures.

Photographer Bruce Davidson talks about a series of his photographs taken while traveling the subways of New York in the 1980's.