PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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Caption: OutCasting youth participant Justin
How did he deal with it? Was his school helpful? What did he learn from it?

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 31, 2021
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1
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One Teacher is short form audio content, each vignette is an interview with a story teller where they describe the 'one teacher' that inspired them...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2019
  • Length: 02:04
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The story of a shy teenager who wanted to meet the man of her dreams. Or at the very least, a straight guy. But some things are easier dreamed than...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2018
  • Length: 19:49
Caption: Simeon Wright
This month's Tin Roof Project features Simeon Wright, author of Simeon Speaks, the first eyewitness account of the kidnapping and murder of his cou...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 42:00

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:15
Caption: Jim Frey reads "Prism Riot"
This week's stories are about assumptions-- and we all know what happens when people make them. Stories by Kay Brockwell, Jim Frey, and Patrice Mel...

  • Added: Dec 26, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Bestselling Author Laura Parker Castoro
This week it's our monthly series The Tin Roof Project, where well-known Southerners bring their own true stories to life. This month's Tin Roofer ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
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This week our writers grapple with the colors that separate, whether black, brown, or white. Stories by Tyler Thompson, Leslie Epps, and Jennifer M...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: My grandmother as an infant, Credit: Family collection
When Afi Scruggs digitized an interview with her late grandmother, she recalled truism about technology: every time a format changes, important inf...

Bought by KALW, KUT, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2011
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Bryan Byrdlong
Poet Bryan Byrdlong, 17, is a senior at Whitney Young; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high school. The subject of Pops is...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:27
Caption: Kush Thompson
Poet Kush Thompson, 16, is a junior at Orr Academy; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school. When asked about the sub...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Christian Robinson
Poet Christian Robinson, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high sch...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
Caption: Melana Bass
Poet Melana Bass, 17, is a junior at TEAM Englewood; she competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing her high school. ‘What would I do withou...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:36
Caption: Malcolm London
Poet Malcolm London, 17, is a senior at Lincoln Park High School and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago. ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2011
  • Length: 02:11
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Basic facts and about elephants from Carol Buckley, founder of The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, plus a personal elephant story from NY Times be...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2008
  • Length: 07:06