Check out In Verse's Women of Troy video slide show with accompanying audio interview. This installment features poet Susan B. A. Somers-Willett and photographer Brenda Ann Kenneally as they document the lives of working mothers in Troy, New York. This new work grows from Kenneally's multi-year reporting project.

In Verse: Women of Troy from InVerse on Vimeo.

Check out Mapping Main Street on NPR's Weekend Saturday Edition. Tomorrow's story is "In San Luis, Main Street is a Border Crossing." 

The Description: In San Luis, Arizona, Main Street is where thousands of legal migrants cross the border every day to work in southern Arizona's vast agricultural fields.  Mapping Main Street, a new documentary project, follows one farm laborer's journey as he starts and ends his day on Main Street, San Luis.

Please check your local listings for airtime.

If you plan to be at PRPD, please join us for the "Taking Public Media to the Streets - MQ2" panel on Wednesday, September 16th from 11:15am to 12:30pm. Presenters on the panel include MQ2's Sue Schardt and Julie Drizin. 

Panel Description: the eight Makers Quest 2.0 producers are fresh from five months of inventing new ways to harness the power of new technology, social media and traditional broadcast/storytelling to engage audiences in new ways. We’ll introduce some of these most energized producers and editors from their broadcast incubators. We listen/look at their work, discuss what  they learned, and experience new approaches to the audio craft they’re pioneering.

Also appearing are MQ2 Incubators Davar Ardalan of NPR's Weekend Edition and Nishat Kurwa of Youth Radio, as well as grantees Queena Kim & collaborator Tanya Jo Miller of CyberFrequencies, Kara Oehler & collaborator Ann Hepperman of Mapping Main Street, and Anita Johnson of Beyond the Odds.

Check out the Marketplace Blog post about Mapping Main Street: Main Street's Where It's At. The piece is a complimentary send-up that includes lots of quotes from the Mapping Main Street team and the people they interviewed.

An excerpt: It’s encouraging. I wish more of the discussion of our economic recovery could be about our Main Streets and less about Wall Street or K Street. Most Main Streets don’t look the same at one end as they do at the other, and with certain obvious exceptions, that’s a good thing. Many Main Streets aren’t even the main street in town. It’s just a street connected to another one, which is connected to another one, and so on.

KUOW is running pieces about The Corner: 23rd and Union. For the latest print and audio stories click here.

The current story begins, "This summer on KUOW we've broadcast many stories about one street corner. Twenty–third and East Union is near the geographical center of Seattle. Cars flow through this intersection, on a straight shot to downtown, the University District, Lake Washington and Rainier Valley. It's just one corner in one Seattle neighborhood, the Central District. Like other neighborhoods in this city, it's changing fast. Newcomers have moved in, and housing prices have gone up. Now neighbors are grappling with the change."

NPR Weekend Edition aired Mapping Main Street's First story: "In Chattanooga, Main Street is a Prostitution Strip."

The story begins, "On the surface, Main Street in Chattanooga, Tenn., looks nice. There's a newly developed arts district with galleries, upscale restaurants, a packed breakfast joint called the Bluegrass Grill, even houses that have been certified as environmentally friendly. But if you stray from these newly renovated blocks, there's a different side to Chattanooga's Main Street."

Beyond the Odds (BTO) youth blogs have been picked up and re-purposed by BlackVoices.com. Check out the first in the series: "Tu Tienes SIDA."

The piece begins: "The day I found out I had AIDS was a nightmare. April 12, 2006. I'd spent 2 weeks in the hospital waiting to find out why I was constantly getting sick. I was sitting in the hospital room with my mother, a little anxious and very concerned.

My mom told me in an upbeat voice, 'Be patient, everything will be just fine.'"

Stay tuned for future posts from BTO on BlackVoices.com.

Check out the promo video for MQ2's Mapping Main Street - and if you live near a Main Street, put it on their map!

The San Francisco Bay View Newspaper spoke with Beyond the Odds about HIV in youth communities.

Excerpted from the article: Anita Johnson: I’m working with four extremely bright and strong individuals all under the age of 26. Each one of our participants is HIV-positive. Two of the individuals are living in a temporary shelter and the other two individuals live with their families – three young men and one young woman.

To read the article click here.

In Verse Presents CONGREGATION. Beautiful work based in the Gulf Coast.

Selected photographs from "Congregation" a documentary poetry project by Natasha Trethewey and Josh Cogan.

Photography © Joshua Cogan.

To view images click here.