PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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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
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
Arriving at her family's storage space in Syracuse, NY, a Brooklyn-based writer and mom is surprised to find the contents far more plentiful and si...
- Added: Jun 23, 2011
- Length: 15:20
- Purchases: 3
Bhutan is a land of prayer flags and happiness. But people are people, and human suffering, including domestic violence, is as prevalent here as i...
Bought by KUER, KZYX, KQED, KFOK-LPFM, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Jun 09, 2011
- Length: 24:36
- Purchases: 5
This week's show concerns identity: Amy Gray Light takes a roadtrip to Ft. Worth she'd just as well forget, Amy Manning Burns finds a memory, and a...
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Marcia Camp parks her unique ride, Joanna Siebert searches for a bird and a connection, Bob Donaldson witnesses the birth of rock and roll, and Ken...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Less than one hundred years ago, women voted for the first time in a national election. Two months ago, Lauren Peterson headed to the polls for a s...
- Added: Apr 05, 2011
- Length: 04:48
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
Poet Cecilia (Ce-Ce) Tate, 16, is a sophomore at Curie Metro High and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Lyrical Revolution re...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:58
Poet Briana Tomlinson, 16 (who turned 17 during the competition), is a junior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a membe...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:51
Poet Dominique James, 16, is a sophomore at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:27
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
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
This fully-produced 2:40 personal essay wonders if a woman's place really IS in the kitchen. If not, what then? It might be sub-titled, "How to lea...
- Added: Jan 06, 2011
- Length: 02:41
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 2
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 3
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell talks about what her life is like living in Mexico, how she's happier than ever, but in ways she never imagined. This essay was rec...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 03:34
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell gets of a bus in Texas at 4am. She's coming back from Mexico with $5.00 in her pocket. She puts her bags in a shopping cart and re...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 05:23
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell was homeless for a couple of years in the early 1990's. This piece was produced in 1996, after she got on her feet and was living i...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 06:03
- Purchases: 4
Produced in 1992 and originally aired on All Things Considered, this evergreen story chronicles Carmen Delzell's visit to her grandmother in the nu...
- Added: Nov 24, 2010
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
Jennifer Bosworth had to go crazy in L.A. before she could discover that the man she was looking for was in her home town all along.
- Added: Nov 21, 2010
- Length: 15:56
- Purchases: 5
