All Pieces for New Letters on the Air

 
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

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  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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We continue National Poetry Month with part two of a conversation with poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO. She discusses how, aft...

  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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California poet Ellen Bass, the author of the 2020 book INDIGO, describes looking back on her childhood in Philadelphia for inspiration, especially...

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  • Added: Apr 21, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
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We continue Black History Month with the Past American Voice of Al Young, the two-time American Book Award winner, who passed away in 2021 at age 8...

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  • Added: Feb 24, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This week on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR... Anthony Grooms is a two-time winner of the Lillian Smith Book Prize, given to writers who tackle issues of ...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a program of readings and conversation at Commerce Bank's The Box Gallery. Poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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The late novelist, retired Princeton professor, and mountain climber, Russell Banks is the author of the 2021 novel, FOREGONE. In this classic 201...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
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Pulitzer Prize winners Tony Kushner, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, as well as Sherman Alexie, Naomi Shihab Nye, and the late August Wilson share some...

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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A holiday favorite, this highly anthologized short story is read by the late author Grace Paley. "The Loudest Voice" is an amusing tale about a lit...

Bought by WDCB, GCR (Global Community Radio), RadioFreePalmer, and KBBI Alaska


  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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George Saunders reads a passage from his Story Prize-winning collection, TENTH OF DECEMBER. In this public presentation, Saunders discusses his pat...

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  • Added: Dec 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

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  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Pulitzer Prize-winning fiction writer, Geraldine Brooks talks about her 2015 book, THE SECRET CHORD. This historical novel about the Biblical King...

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  • Added: Nov 29, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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This week's classic New Letters on the Air features former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, whose poetry from his 2005 Pulitzer Prize winning books h...

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This week on NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR... we’ll hear a classic interview with DAVID BAKER, Poetry Editor Emeritus of the literary magazine, THE KENYON...

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  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit this interview with Rigoberto Gonzalez, who won the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award from Associatio...

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  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Newbery Award-winning children's author Lois Lowry, talks about her book for young people, THE GIVER. One of the most challenged books in American ...

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  • Added: Sep 23, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5