PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Normally, Rachel Gemara is an oncology nurse at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem. But back in March, she was one of a handful of nurses tr...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2020
  • Length: 06:35
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An Israeli writer was invited by text message to the funeral of a woman she never knew. She attends out of curiosity and finds over seventy people ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 10, 2018
  • Length: 06:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Dayton Correctional Institution, Credit: r wilde
An inmate talks about how her incarceration has brought her mother around in a full circle: remembering how her mother visited her father in prison...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2016
  • Length: 03:32
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
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Dayquan writes about his struggles losing his mother to death at an early age.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Luis Lopez, Credit: Craig Santoro
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.

Bought by WHYY and WGXC


  • Added: Jul 10, 2011
  • Length: 01:55
  • Purchases: 2