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Poetry Compilation with Adrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
Dodge M37
From: The Telling Room
Caption: Dodge M37, Credit: Andreas von Huene
If only an an old truck could talk. Telling Room student Balthasar von Huene gives voice to a military work-horse that found a new life in Maine.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 04:17
Keep Running
From: The Truth
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Wisconsin to Indiana: 80 miles, 12 hours, 1 day.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 12, 2013
  • Length: 12:08
  • Purchases: 1
Deep Thought
From: Nate Kupel
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Background Music: Serious, deep thought, with groove

  • Added: Nov 02, 2013
  • Length: 01:44
Culturology: Author Christina Baker Kline talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Orphan Train" by author Christina Baker Kline
In the last half of the nineteenth and first third of the twentieth centuries unwanted children from east coast cities were the cargo of what were ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 17:09
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Minnesota Author Peter Geye talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Author: Peter Geye
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 3
Project One Day
From: Poetic Violence
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A brief program synopsis : This is an audio piece describing the life of a typical male in the western world. From womb to tomb. This is my first...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2013
  • Length: 24:40
Culturology: Sara Stonich talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Vacationland" by Sara Stonich
Sara Stonich is the best-selling author of internationally acclaimed novels "These Granite Islands," "The Ice Chorus," and the memoir "Shelter." St...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 18:38
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: A Real Good Words Interview between William Kent Krueger and Heidi Holtan About "Ordinary Grace," Krueger's Latest Novel.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Ordinary Grace" by Willian Kent Krueger
In this Real Good Words interview Heidi Holtan talks with William Kent Krueger about his latest novel, "Ordinary Grace." "Ordinary Grace" is a depa...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 14:54
  • Purchases: 2
Rage
From: Matthew Cowley
Series: The Sixty Second Radio Hour
Caption: PRX default Piece image
It grows on emptiness.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:15
Culturology: "Long-Shining Waters" - Author Danielle Sosin talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Long-Shining Waters" by Danielle Sosin
Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 28, 2013
  • Length: 17:32
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "It's Fine By Be" from Per Petterson. Published by Graywolf Press.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "It's Fine By Me" by Per Petterson
Dan Sinykin very cleanly illuminates the strength and appeal of this new novel from published by Graywolf Press and written by Per Petterson called...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 14, 2013
  • Length: 04:08
  • Purchases: 2
Happy New Year
From: The Truth
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You're invited to spend New Year's Eve with Walt Avery.

Bought by WMPG, KFAI Minneapolis, Georgia Public Broadcasting, PRX Remix, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 12:18
  • Purchases: 5
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Elmer Left" - Author Kate Leibfried talks to Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words interview.
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Elmer Left" by Kate Leibfried
Author Kate Leibfried talks to Heidi Holtan about her novel "Elmer Left" in a Real Good Words interview.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 14:18
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "The Fall of Alice K." by Jim Heynen
Dan Sinykin brings us a review of Jim Heynen's new book "The Fall of Alice K."

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 04:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Scent of My Dreams
From: Brian Bahouth
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The Scent of My Dreams was written by Holly Day and first appeared in the literary magazine Infective Ink. Music from downtempo artists 9 Lazy 9 e...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2012
  • Length: 03:45
Culturology: Kevin McColley
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Praying To A Laughing God" by Kevin McColley
In this Real Good Words interview Maggie Montgomery and Robert Saxton were joined in the studios of Northern Community Radio by northern Minnesota ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 07:12
  • Purchases: 2
The Outcasts of Poker Flat by Bret Harte
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Those expelled from a gold mining camp are trapped by an early snowfall.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 24:18
Culturology: Ghost Dancer by Judy Merritt
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Ghost Dancer by Judy Merritt
Judy Merritt, author from the Nevis area of northern Minnesota, joins Heidi Holtan for a Real Good Words interview. Her new book titled "Ghost Danc...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 15:42
  • Purchases: 2
On the Day I Died, It Was Mostly the Blues
From: Third Coast International Audio Festival
Series: 2012 ShortDocs: Neighbor Stories
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I live next to the Westwood Cemetery in Carrboro, North Carolina and my neighbors are the ghosts who reside there.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jul 24, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Patrick DeWitt discusses The Sisters Brothers
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Patrick DeWitt is a novelist who lives in Oregon.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 27:37
Home Again
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Kaleidoscope
Caption: Pearl Harbor, Credit: Rich Engelbrecht
A poignant tale of a returning veteran who witnessed December 7, 1941.

  • Added: Nov 16, 2010
  • Length: 47:48
Moon Graffiti
From: The Truth
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What if Apollo 11 had crashed?

Bought by KSFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., The Story, Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUT and more


  • Added: Jul 13, 2010
  • Length: 15:21
  • Purchases: 7
Too Much of a Good Thing
From: Elsa Lankford
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A radio drama written, edited, and produced by Elsa Lankford (elsa4sound@gmail.com). "Too Much of a Good Thing" is what happens when you mix myster...

  • Added: Jun 25, 2010
  • Length: 47:29