PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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In the first month of lockdown during the global pandemic, I made this short poem/prayer. The music in this piece is Falling to Pieces Again, by t...
- Added: Aug 10, 2020
- Length: 01:46
This hour is dedicated to listening to members of our Black community. They share their experience and responses to recent social uprisings and the...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 59:08
Leonard Slatkin talks about the DSO
- Added: Feb 13, 2020
- Length: 05:22
Darnell Moore the author of No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America. A story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with...
- Added: Aug 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Ta-Nehisi Coates' friend from Howard University was shot and killed by police in Virginia back in 2000. Written in the form of a letter to his own ...
- Added: Jun 23, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
How girlie do you have to be to secure your spot in the girl club? And what happens when your own mother questions your girl credentials? Marlo Ma...
- Added: Sep 06, 2014
- Length: 09:11
- Purchases: 2
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.
- Added: Dec 11, 2013
- Length: 01:49
Sandip Roy listens back to the music of Manna Dey.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 19, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 30, 2013
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 1
In May 2012, over 8000 people took part in the Great Limerick Run in south west Ireland. Alison Turner ran the 6 mile race to raise funds for char...
- Added: Jul 20, 2012
- Length: 13:31
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
Writer and radio commentator Carol Spindel visited the Ivory Coast last November as the country took a step towards democracy with a historic elect...
- Added: Feb 08, 2011
- Length: 59:01
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Some think of Bambi. Some gardeners call them rats on stilts. Still others view them as little more than obstacles on our roads. Writer Andrew Hill...
- Added: Jul 28, 2010
- Length: 01:37
A brief reflection, upon the death of my grandmother, on the ways that food and death are inextricably linked in Southern culture.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.
- Added: Dec 22, 2009
- Length: 05:45
Animal Communicator David Louis tells a true story about his experience with a miniature horse named Floyd.
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 13, 2009
- Length: 04:44
- Purchases: 1
Animal communicator David Louis speaks extemporaneously about pets and their nicknames.
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 13, 2009
- Length: 02:25
- Purchases: 3
Zack loves the feeling of hurling through space :)
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Apr 13, 2009
- Length: 04:18
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 04, 2009
- Length: 03:49