PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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In Key West, Florida,a neighborhood rooster's cries awaken a woman mourning her mother's recent death.
- Added: May 06, 2012
- Length: 02:59
After his mother has a massive stroke, writer Dave White describes the quick thinking and problem solving necessary for a simple trip to the movies.
- Added: Mar 13, 2012
- Length: 10:49
- Purchases: 3
This week's stories are about the impact of special people in our lives, whether they are central to our lives, on their way to the other side, or ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Whitney Jones tells his story of losing faith and finding new ways to connect with the world around him.
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, HowSound, KUT, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 10, 2012
- Length: 14:10
- Purchases: 5
We all have different stories to tell.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 08:52
- Purchases: 2
Stories show us that with every ending, there follows a beginning...whether we want either to happen or not. Kate Knable watches her brother get st...
- Added: Sep 02, 2011
- Length: 29:00
YouthCast features a love story in honor of civil unions between same sex couples being recognized in the state of Illinois and the marriages of co...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and WGXC
- Added: Aug 15, 2011
- Length: 07:23
- Purchases: 2
Lives can change in the flash of a moment: Helen Austin never sees the face of a stranger who saves her life, Susan Toone's life changes with one l...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Winners of the Arkansas Literary Festival share their winning stories: Jill Duvall visits an asylum, Wyatt Jones stands on the edge and tries not t...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 28:30
Broadway star Lawrence Hamilton on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front ...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Publisher and author Janis F. Kearney on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in ...
- Added: Jul 01, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Visit Christmas memories with Lisa Brandom, Excy Johnston, Amy Manning Burns. Southern-style storytelling in front of a live audience at Starving A...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 29:00
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...
Bought by WGDR
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 14:58
- Purchases: 1
Heidi was adopted from Iran when she was three years old and raised in blue-blood Virginia. She will never be able to find her biological mother, b...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUOW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 4
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
Sealed explores divorce and its lingering effects. Nearly two decades after their parents’ separation, four siblings reflect on its aftermath.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: May 12, 2010
- Length: 22:22
- Purchases: 1
A poem by three students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word team -- Santana Shorty, Clara Natonabah, and Nolan Eskeets -- about understa...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 03:38
"What do you think of when you think of your dad?"
People in Seattle share stories about their fathers. Death, divorce, drugs, love, Casey Kasem...
- Added: Mar 05, 2010
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 3
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
A portrait of Mike Butler: Irish-American tannery worker, avid gambler, and, in the eyes of three young boys growing up in suburban Massachusetts ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2009
- Length: 11:35
- Purchases: 3
In Fall 2009, as my wife entered the late stage of pregnancy, I asked several friends of mine who are recent or long-time dads for advice on becomi...
- Added: Nov 23, 2009
- Length: 13:46
- Purchases: 7
This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy.
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- Added: Nov 22, 2009
- Length: 04:35
Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:30
How the passage of time touches every life
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:59
