PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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In this episode of Bonus Tracks, Kenzie shares her favorite Artist with us, Lana Del Ray.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:18
Caption: The Goo Goo Dolls performing in Norfolk, Nebraska in September 2013. The Goo Goo Dolls photo from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Goo_Goo_Dolls_2013_1.jpg Photo credit: Fr. Jeff Lorig taken September 2, 2013
In this episode, KXCI Tucson's youth broadcaster Delaney talks about The Goo Goo Dolls and The Gin Blossoms.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2024
  • Length: 03:11
Caption: Shalvah Lazarus pitching in 2021, Credit: Jen Stillerman
Sixteen-year-old Shalvah Lazarus shares her own story and interviews other young female baseball players about the choice they face when they start...

  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 09:15
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Stuttering has long been the butt of many jokes. People who stutter are working to change that.

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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In surrogate partner therapy, a therapist, a surrogate partner and a client work together to understand and help resolve the client’s challenges wi...

  • Added: Oct 04, 2023
  • Length: 58:23
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Primary care doctor Tseganesh Selameab brings us inside her practice as a provider for immigrants and refugees, and describes one of the most commo...

  • Added: May 04, 2023
  • Length: 39:02
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A day in the life of someone struggling to hold it together through the struggles of dealing with symptoms from ADHD.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
Caption: The Persimmon Tree, Credit: Scott Wen
A 70 year old woman risks everything for a taste of late autumnal fruit.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 08, 2023
  • Length: 03:52
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Scratch & Sniff Logo, Credit: Walker Raigh
A special Mother’s Day episode where Walker reads a letter she sent to her mom years ago to tell her why her desire to never have children does not...

  • Added: Feb 21, 2022
  • Length: 05:14
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Celebrate Chinese New Year in 2021 with Music and Words.

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WVTF


  • Added: Jan 28, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Listening to The Disintegration Loops during wildfire season -- a review of William Basinski’s seminal album as a meditation on looping thoughts, p...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 33:31
  • Purchases: 1
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A postcard from the singing sand dunes of Colorado.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 13, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If you could meet up with one person in the afterworld, who would it be? This SUPERHUMANS story takes us into the mind of a NASA astronomer as she...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 34:24
Caption: Sometimes, story is the best form of medicine.
If given a do-over in life, what would you do with it? This SUPERHUMANS story takes us on a beautifully raw journey that displays the courage and ...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 26:36
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In this story, Walker explores the memory of a short but powerful conversation with her partner, triggered by the scent of fresh evening air.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:12
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Richard and his daughter Margaret investigate the bird insurrection, while humans attack the U.S. Capitol and President Trump is impeached for the ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2021
  • Length: 11:47
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Hi I’m Makayla and my piece is about my adventures being a fifth grade reject.

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 13:40
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My name is Shawn Hughes. I wrote this piece consciously, recapping one of my most important moments of the year. In the midst of two pandemics, eve...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 06:54
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Before he would ever know it, Matt Gallagher was at the forefront of new veteran voices fighting the Global War on Terror. Literally. He unknowingl...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2021
  • Length: 52:09
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
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An introduction to The Wind.

  • Added: Nov 17, 2020
  • Length: 03:14
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Personal narrative describing a way to cope with uncertainty during the pandemic, and a reassessment of safety and risk following the largest earth...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2020
  • Length: 05:33
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A piece by Mya Torres. I made my piece about how social media ruined not only MY relationship with self-love, but many others.

  • Added: Aug 18, 2020
  • Length: 05:59
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For her fiftieth birthday this year, Danna Harman planned to embark on a spiritual pilgrimage along the Camino de Santiago and hopefully hit on a d...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 15:50

  • Added: Jan 22, 2020
  • Length: 57:56
  • Purchases: 1
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n my story, you will hear my mom talk about her journey and what it was like growing up and getting kicked out of Ethiopia.

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 03:12