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Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
A conversation with horror, sci-fi author Roy C. Booth.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 12:56
Author Kelly Link discusses the archetypes of magical realism and William McKelvy explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:52
Publisher and fiction writer, Danielle Dutton, discusses the poetics of suburbia and the roadblocks of women in publishing. In the second half Prof...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 20:51
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 31:33
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 13:22
Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:40
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems.
Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 03:35
Actress Mary-Louise Parker said this is one her favorite novels of all time and so she jumped at the chance to read excerpts. There's commentary by...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Aug 18, 2011
- Length: 29:07
- Purchases: 7
A beloved American classic, Willa Cather's My Ántonia is best summarized by its epigraph---"the best days are the first to flee." Garrison Keillor ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
The particular and universal state of mind of libraries is one of random discovery.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 1
Guido has always been overly interested in books, and he tells about some of his favorite libraries.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 05:06
- Purchases: 1
Last week, Aaron's oldest son signed up for his first Library card... to them, the library is spoken about like a mythical place.
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 02:41
Lauren Kessler worked for minimum wage as an RA (resident assistant) while writing FINDING LIFE IN THE LAND OF ALZHEIMER'S (formerly titled, Dancin...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 16, 2010
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...
- Added: Mar 06, 2009
- Length: 29:03
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
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
A musical setting of Walt Whitman's "I Sit and Look Out"
Bought by WBHM
- Added: Jul 08, 2007
- Length: 03:22
- Purchases: 1
Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 08, 2005
- Length: 03:12
- Purchases: 1