PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Even starting a piece that's 639 years long is an act of incredible optimism.
- Added: Aug 04, 2020
- Length: 07:54
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
Listen to stories about life's unexpected turns.
- Added: Jan 22, 2020
- Length: 58:03
Artipoeus visits Swedish artist Henrik Stromberg's "Echoes in Dust" at Galerie Aplus in Berlin.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 20:00
How can sound heal a body? With our guides, Susan Rogers—who recorded albums for Prince and David Byrne—and hypnotherapist Daniel Ryan, we explore ...
- Added: Jun 15, 2017
- Length: 35:28
When Alexis Diao’s father arrived in Tallahassee, Florida, he couldn’t even find coconut milk—let alone many other ingredients to make the Filipino...
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 26:13
- Purchases: 3
Every week, Cracker Barrel provides 4 million Americans with a studied version of down-home Southern food and hospitality. The dumplins and the chi...
- Added: Apr 21, 2016
- Length: 26:03
- Purchases: 2
The 2016 US election isn't going away anytime soon, so let's seek refuge in etymology. Consider the linguistically appropriate age of a senator, an...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 36:05
- Added: Dec 22, 2015
- Length: 15:26
- Purchases: 1
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sandra M. Gilbert.
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:40
- Purchases: 2
A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss
- Added: Nov 05, 2015
- Length: 01:47
“I crawled through the underbrush, then I popped out into a beautiful, green clearing in the middle of the city. And in the center of it, about 20 ...
- Added: Aug 18, 2015
- Length: 12:00
Pickers and neighbors from the South, Minnesota that is, Pert Near Sandstone.
- Added: Apr 21, 2015
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 9
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
Nailah Stevenson talks candidly about why she stayed in an abusive relationship. And when she realized it was time to go.
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 08:04
Vocalo contributor Alex Thibodeau talks about growing up biracial outside of Detroit… without the benefit of knowing his Jamaican father. He shares...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 10:55
- Purchases: 2
How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...
Bought by WCPN
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 08:54
- Purchases: 1
A mother comes to terms with the fact that her young son...is actually her daughter.
Bought by XRAY.fm, HowSound, WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Connecticut Public (WNPR) and more
- Added: Jul 22, 2014
- Length: 07:17
- Purchases: 7
Sadly, the historic Hubig's Pie factory in New Orleans burned down, and its neighbor Laura McKnight slept through it...almost.
- Added: Feb 13, 2014
- Length: 04:43
Storyville is a new collaboration between of the University of New Orleans and WWNO. These are true stories about New Orleans written by the studen...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
Lots of people talk about how addicted we are to our screens. We spend our days staring at smartphones, tablets, and computers. But the first digit...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 14, 2013
- Length: 08:33
- Purchases: 1
Professional photographer, Aubry Edwards goes on the photo shoot from hell when Jay Thunderbolt locks her into the "private strip club" in his Detr...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 06:22
Anthony Garza has an appearance that seems to mirror everyone's expectation of him. Middle Easterners, Americans and Hispanics strangers enjoy pic...
- Added: Sep 13, 2012
- Length: 03:27
If you’ve spent any time in the Bay Area, there’s a good chance you’ve met some circus performers: clowns, jugglers, fire dancers, aerialists, hula...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jun 10, 2012
- Length: 07:50
- Purchases: 1
Is marriage forever? Sometimes it can seem like it. This short, fully-produced audio essay describes the tension between loving and LIVING WITH tho...
Bought by KPIK-LP and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 2
