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MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
The Write Question - Kristin Knight Pace - 435
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kristin Knight Pace is one of thirty-one women in the world to have completed both the Iditarod and Yukon Quest dogsled races. In this interview, s...

Bought by Prairie Public, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jun 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
The Write Question - Sarah Aswell - 438
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Comedian and humor writer Sarah Aswell discusses her works and stand up. She also reads a selection and shares a live comedy bit.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Kathryn Trueblood - 450
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Kathryn Trueblood discusses her novel, "Take Daily As Needed." She also reads a short excerpt.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 31, 2019
  • Length: 29:26
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jeremy Smith - 372
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Jeremy Smith discusses his nonfiction novel, "Breaking and Entering: The Extraordinary Story of a Hacker Called "Alien." He also reads a short pass...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...

Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Henrietta Goodman - 331
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning poet Henritetta Goodman discusses her collection of 48 linked Italian sonnets, "All That Held Us." She also reads a handful of poems ...

Bought by KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Alexandra Teague - 287
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alexandra Teague discusses her debut novel, a quirky coming-of-age story. She reads both from the book as well as selected poem from her previous c...

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Poet Alice Friman
From: New Letters on the Air
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Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Drunk Mom / Acting and Activism! / Thrillers! / The Fun is in the Surprise! / Darn That Annoying Itch!
From: 2BoomerBabes Radio Hour
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Segment 1: Jowita Bydlowska - drunk mom Segment 2: Tippi Hedren/actress Segment 3: Steve Berry/author poe, lincoln Segment 4: Denise Chaykum/Myst...

  • Added: Jul 10, 2015
  • Length: 54:00
Color So Sparing: Terri Falsani
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Terri Falsani of Duluth reading her two poems "Understanding Eve" and "Higher Latitude".

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
A Goddess of the Milky Way
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Man Booker Prize-winning author Anne Enright
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Anne Enright
For Women's History Month with a nod to St.Patty's Day, we revisit Irish author Anne Enright, who discusses her dark but humorous approach to writi...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 19, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Deborah Sharp's Florida Mysteries on Thirty Four 50
From: Joseph Sr Dobzynski
Series: Thirty-Four50 - Joseph Dobzynski - Florida Series
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Deborah Sharp was a reporter for USA Today for nearly two decades. Given all the stories she wrote about killer sharks, rampaging alligators, and h...

  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 24:10
Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, Peggy Shumaker
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Peggy Shumaker
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 24, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Mayor of the Universe" - Author Lorna Landvik talks with Heidi Holtan
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Mayor of the Universe" by Lorna Landvik
Lorna Landvik is the author of eight previous novels including the best selling "Angry Housewives Eating Bon Bons, "Oh My Stars," and "The View Fro...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KVSC


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 20:20
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont's books include CURIOUS CONDUCT and PLACEBO EFFECTS, and her collection, BURNING OF THE THREE FIRES. She assembles ever...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Lorraine Lopez
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Lorraine Lopez
Fiction writer Lorraine Lopez was a 2010 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, with her collection HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. She...

  • Added: Jan 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Interview with Award-winning poet and Novelist MARGE PIERCY
From: Tish Pearlman
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Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work

  • Added: Aug 17, 2007
  • Length: 27:30