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Poets Off the Page: Music & Poetry
From: New Letters on the Air
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POETS OFF THE PAGE: POETRY & MUSIC features an interesting look at the works of three different poets who have recently merged their poetry with mu...

Bought by KWMR, WNJR, WNMU-FM, and WJCU


  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 4
The Wright Brothers with Special Guest David McCullough
From: Alan Duncan
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What can America learn for today from the Wright brothers? Don’t miss this fascinating interview with David McCullough on The Public Square®.

  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 57:26
Spin Central - Two Short Plays by David Auburn
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: David Auburn
Two short plays about political operatives by Pulitzer Prize Winner David Auburn. In the comic DAMAGE CONTROL, a political aide has a public relati...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KZYX, Connecticut Public (WNPR), Oregon Public Broadcasting, KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 6
Carolyn Kizer: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Krip Hop
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Leroy Moore
You’ve heard of Hip-Hop, but what about Krip-Hop? That’s the name for the international movement of disabled artists, poets, musicians, and MCs. On...

Bought by WRIR and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Furious Flowers: Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez (Special)
From: With Good Reason
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Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.

Bought by KUPR low power FM, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KQED, WVAS, WESM 91.3 FM and more


  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
Claudia Emerson: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...

Bought by WABE and WNJR


  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Richard Powers on Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 3
A Proust Questionnaire with Helen Oyeyemi
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 04:03
  • Purchases: 2
John Updike on Rabbit Remembered
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Open Source in 2001 with John Updike, reflecting on and reading from his novella Rabbit Remembered, the last in a five-part series about an America...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 03:50
  • Purchases: 2
Letters of Note
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Shaun Usher
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 13:31
Numberlys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: William Joyce
Creative author, illustrator and filmmaker William Joyce is an Academy Award Winner, Emmy Award Winner and his illustrations have appeared on numer...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:44
'You're The Best Friend/Pen Pal/Third Grade Teacher Ever'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
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Carrboro High School sophomore Carolyn Macleod credits her third grade teacher Hannah Stang with her passion for writing. They have written letters...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
'You're The Reason I Started Doing Performance Poetry'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
Caption: Carrboro High School English teacher Mackensie Malkemes and junior Ryley McGinnis, Credit: Timothy Leow
Ryley McGinnis was shy and hadn't thought much about performance poetry when she entered Mackensie Malkemes' English class at Carrboro High School,...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
'I Still Have That Story. It Gave Me The Confidence To Pursue Writing'
From: Will Michaels
Series: My Teacher
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Middle school teacher Steven Simmons says he was a little overwhelmed in 2005 when he started his career at Estes Hills Elementary School in Chapel...

  • Added: May 02, 2014
  • Length: 04:00
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 3
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #3 travels into the realm of memory as Howard Nemerov and Gwendolyn Brooks read poems about childhood and the fleeting nature of time.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KUPR low power FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 17
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 2
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #2 takes listeners on several poetry journeys: to Africa with James Baldwin and on an interplanetary rocket-poem trip with Allen Ginsberg a...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KFCF FM, KUPR low power FM, WNMU-FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 17
Sarah Vowell Riffs On Satchmo, 'The Incredibles' And Andrew Jackson [Extended]
From: Laine Kaplan-Levenson
Caption: Sarah Vowell signing books after a lecture at Lamar Univ. in Beaumont, Texas
Sarah Vowell talks to reporter Brian Friedman and producer Laine Kaplan-Levenson about Louis Armstrong, voiceover work, Andrew Jackson, New Orleans...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2014
  • Length: 11:01
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 1
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #1 explores how poetry enables people to channel the voices of others and features excerpts from Studs Terkel’s interviews with Elma Stucke...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 20
Nothing Personal: A Novel of Wall Street
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Mike Offit
Set in the luxurious homes and clubs of New York, Hobe Sound, Dark Harbor, the Hamptons and Europe, Mike Offit’s debut novel is a story about comin...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 22:34
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Bellwether prize-winning author Naomi Benaron
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Naomi Benaron
NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Nov 07, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Don Piper Interview
From: Lana Straub
Caption: Lana Straub and Don Piper
Interview with Don Piper on the trials, tribulations and joys of being a bestselling author

  • Added: Aug 06, 2013
  • Length: 22:26
The Mikie Show #62, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
Dave Barry
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
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The humorist and author talks about his novel, "Insane City," and the real-life insane city that inspired it...Miami. He then sits down with Virgin...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 56:30