PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Lena Cammarata (b. 1912 in Yatesboro) reflects on her life based on this 2008 interview by 8th graders Morgan and Brisha of Manchester Academic Cha...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 08:37
- Purchases: 1
Laxmi Aryal (b. 1951 in Nepal) reflects on her life based on this 2014 interview by 5th graders Mat, JP and Lily of Winchester Thurston School in P...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 04:22
- Purchases: 1
Karla Stept (b.1918 in Austria) reflects on her life based on this 2011 interview by 5th graders Anatea, Ellis and Jackson of Winchester Thurston S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 08:32
- Purchases: 1
Hermila Perez reflects on her life before and after coming to the United States in 1951 based on interviews by Clarence and Jevon, teens participat...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Mar 03, 2016
- Length: 02:54
- Purchases: 1
A 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow Ellen Bryant Voigt talks with fellow poet and professor, Michelle Boisseau, about her collection HEADWATERS. Voigt...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 1
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
Amina Al-Sadi is a 25-year-old American Muslim currently observing the holy month of Ramadan. Amina explains why its a tough time to be Muslim in A...
Bought by KREV-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 4
At the beginning of the 19th century women in the United States had an average of seven or eight children. By 1900 they had only three or four, and...
- Added: Dec 03, 2014
- Length: 40:27
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
How do you proceed with your life when a family secret is revealed?
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 06:11
Inspired by Frost’s focus on the choices we make throughout our lives, Sarah Milad has recorded voices from progressive ages to read his poem. The ...
- Added: Apr 14, 2014
- Length: 01:17
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 06:32
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
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
In 1989, when Allan Gurganus published his debut novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, he did something amazing: Through a work of fict...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Jan 18, 2014
- Length: 07:24
- Purchases: 1
Love it or hate it, we're now in an election year. This is good news for women, because they are the majority of voters, and candidates know it.
- Added: Jan 09, 2014
- Length: 02:30
The image of India has changed in American eyes, yet so has America's image... in Indian eyes.
- Added: Jan 07, 2014
- Length: 04:30
Free, audio book excerpt. Once upon a time, there was a girl who imagined a bear. Actually, she imagined a lot of bears. And then she drew them—bea...
- Added: Nov 23, 2013
- Length: 13:16
How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:04
Dolly Parton, Norah Jones, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and more great female singers share their insightful, deeply personal stories about Willie ...
Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KPIP-LP, KISU, WNTI.ORG-Internet Radio from Centenary University, KAZU Seaside, Calif. and more
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 10
Retired educator, Lorie Yourd, shares her insightful, reflective poem "After Hearing About the Rain."
- Added: Jan 17, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
This month on Open Mind, Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo, a Buddhist nun and author, joins us once again to talk about our sense of self?—?what’s healthy, wh...
- Added: Jun 27, 2011
- Length: 06:57
