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February 27th, 2013
Caption: George & Ira Gershwin
Tin Pan Alley, near Union Square in New York City, became the center for music publishing by 1915. The world of formulaic songwriting – songs with ...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Billy Collins
Billy Collins talks about seeing poetry come to life through animation, as he works with film-maker Julian Grey. He reads, "Revision" from his late...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Caption: Ruben Martinez
Ruben Martinez discusses his latest book, "Desert America," as well as the desert at large. In this dense non-fiction work, the author fraternizes ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...

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  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Philip Levine
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry. He...

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  • Length: 29:01
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Mathew Dickman talks about Mayakovsky's Revolver and language driven poetry. He reads "Gas Station" out of the same collection. Sasha Pimentel sha...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Caption: Dorianne Laux
Dorianne Laux discusses the deconstruction of the alphabet as part of her creative process. "What the Body can Say," is read as the poem of the we...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:05
Caption: Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems. Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

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  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

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  • Length: 14:31
Caption: Mark Strand
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

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  • Length: 14:30

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  • Length: 12:52
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What succession plans in Cuba can tell us about the practicalities of dictatorship in the globalized economy.

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  • Length: 04:05
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This program explores new music of the electric kind for 2 complete hours. Audiences will be able to sample some of the best of the most modern mus...

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  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:00:01
  • Purchases: 3
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It really happened!

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 07:27
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The food can be good, bad, ugly and gross!

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
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There are times when you find yourself in the right place at the right time.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
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“There are only two kinds of people in the world,” goes the saying, “The Irish, and those who wish they were.” That may be the reason so much class...

Bought by KRPS, RadioStPete Florida, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Interlochen Public Radio, KVSC and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Quanah Parker, Credit: Texas State University
Middle School Students at Roots and Wings Community School interviewed, Quanah Parker, a relative of the Legendary Comanche War Chief Quanah Parker.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 58:00