PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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What if an influential teacher set you on your life's path? What would that teacher say if she met you today?
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 19:07
Los Angeles County's poverty line is almost at 20%, and the majority of these households have children. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LA...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 03:45
- Purchases: 2
A narrative weaving together the voices and stories of women who, by choice or chance, do not have children and what they are doing with their love...
- Added: Oct 19, 2014
- Length: 15:41
Will a kindergartner and a first grader find the same thing funny?
A school librarian in San Francisco teamed up with his Kindergartners to write ...
Bought by WMMT, KUOW, and KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 06:27
- Purchases: 3
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
This story is about a high school teacher in New Orleans who looks back on his shenanigans as a student, and how teaching helps him grow.
- Added: Nov 06, 2013
- Length: 05:00
October marks the International Day of the Girl Child. This year's emphasis is on education.
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 02:30
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 02:34
This piece was recorded live on June 5, 2012 at the Pauger House and later produced by Natalie Yahr. The theme of the evening was "Undercover," and...
- Added: Oct 14, 2012
- Length: 05:23
A personal narrative about a traumatizing experience I had in elementary school in Egypt.
- Added: Oct 13, 2012
- Length: 05:22
Poet AJ Tran, 18, is a senior at Northside College Prep. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
When the City of Oakland cut their after school homework help program, High school senior Nora Rose started volunteering at her library to help fil...
- Added: Nov 16, 2010
- Length: 02:18
- Added: Sep 07, 2010
- Length: 01:34
- Purchases: 1
A young man seeking enlightenment once travelled far away to a distant land and climbed a tall mountain where a wise old man was known to dispense ...
- Added: Jul 07, 2009
- Length: :46
Andy learns how to play the recorder.
- Added: Jun 21, 2009
- Length: 05:46
- Added: Dec 17, 2008
- Length: :40
- Added: Dec 10, 2008
- Length: :39
- Purchases: 1
