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Caption: Erika Kooda
During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior year experience. This is the third installment of that ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 04:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
As the Supreme Court Justices listen to lawyers try to find the legal logic in requiring people to buy health insurance, let us remember that peopl...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2012
  • Length: 06:45
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An essay about growing up in the 80's and 90's as a male named Whitney and as a result the effect that Whitney Houston has had on my life.

Bought by KUOW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:56
  • Purchases: 2
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The nebulously-named Hipster is defined and ridiculed.

Bought by KBRP Community Radio and KUT


  • Added: Nov 29, 2011
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Striking Photography by Bo Insogna, Flicker.com
To Gabe Rima, a Monte Del Sol Senior, being American cannot be easily defined. With the majority of the American population being a multitude of cu...

Bought by WTIP, WTIP, and KDNK


  • Added: Apr 05, 2011
  • Length: 04:37
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ashaki Howard
Poet Ashaki Howard, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing her high...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:48
Caption: Team Youmedia Chicago
This team piece is performed by Youmedia Chicago, comprised of poets: Dominique James, 16, a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep; Malcolm Londo...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 03:21
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Art infected the Cape Town city centre and the Children's Radio Foundation was there to capture all the excitement, performance and creativity. Hun...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2011
  • Length: 15:00
Caption: Shooting Stars, Credit: By StephanVDS(.com)
In this piece, Ellie Evans, a student from the New Mexico School For The Arts, asks the question: What if? What if the world were different? This...

Bought by KUER and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 22, 2011
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
From: KBEM
Series: What's Real
Caption: Amy Vang, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Business professionals are helping high school students get started in business careers through an e-mentoring program. The program, through the Ta...

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Kalia Xiong, Credit: Phil Nusbaum
Minneapolis Edison student Kalia Xiong tells that there is a lot to like in Winter.

  • Added: Feb 12, 2011
  • Length: 01:00
Caption: Mary Marmastone (featured in the piece) plays with her dog Titan on a beach near her home in Seattle., Credit: Lillian Mongeau
This fun piece launches from the ideas broached in the New York Times article, "What is it about 20-somethings?" I ask my friends, all at the tail-...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:54
Caption: By stevendepolo @ flickr
"Sew Spot Sew" is an audio piece by Sergio Gonzales, who strongly advocates DYI -- Do It Yourself, a movement that began in the late '50s. Since th...

Bought by KRZA


  • Added: Nov 15, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
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David looks back to his own college years and feels a stab of envy for this year’s freshmen.

  • Added: Sep 02, 2010
  • Length: 03:46
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How much of the sixth sense is perception and how much is reality?

  • Added: Jun 28, 2010
  • Length: 04:59
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The road to writing a best seller has to start somewhere.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 03:20
  • Purchases: 1
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"I have my own version of the Golden Rule - Do unto others as Barbara Kingsolver would do unto you."

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Voices of innocence against the institutional clangor. Third Coast sound art.

  • Added: Dec 12, 2008
  • Length: 02:30
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An awesome interview with Maria Choban

  • Added: May 30, 2008
  • Length: 03:42
Caption: Judith Sloan, Credit: photo Michael Premo, design Warren Lehrer
From YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1, a play by Judith Sloan. WINNER FIRST PLACE 2008, Missouri Review Narrative Essay about...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 06:48
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Commentator Natasha Watts asks listeners to consider the real costs of the prescription drug addiction epidemic in communities across the country.

Bought by WITF and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 14, 2008
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 2
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5 Generaitional Essays - Special- This Believe essays on War

Bought by WCNY


  • Added: Sep 04, 2007
  • Length: 58:30
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Aug 16, 2007
  • Length: 05:01
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jul 15, 2007
  • Length: 04:04
  • Purchases: 2