PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Sheila Packa lives in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. She has published three books of poetry. Sheila Packa also edited the acclaimed anthol...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 01:44
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River Maria Urke is a Stillwater poet, author, and artist. She is the senior editor of the online art and literature journal "The River." Her poetr...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
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John Thornberg is a poet living in Chisago City, Minnesota. He is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Group of Park Rapids, and the Mulberry Street P...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
Caption: "My Mother Is Now Earth" by Mark Anthony Rolo
Dan Sinykin is pursuing a Ph.D. in literature and currently lives in Bemidji. Dan recently read and reviewed Mark Anthony Rolo’s new memoir “My Mot...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 04, 2012
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 1
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:54
Caption: Big Walter Smith
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...

Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 01, 2012
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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The internet through the eyes of an inhabitant of the past... Music by my friend pq (You'll never Find us Here) and Sol Rezza on freemusicarchive.org

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 01, 2012
  • Length: 02:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Rebecca Barrett and the Klines serving lunch, Credit: Philip Graitcer
Greenville, Mississippi is singing the blues about the corned beef luncheon.

Bought by Vocalo.org


  • Added: May 12, 2011
  • Length: 04:26
  • Purchases: 1
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Jesse James was shot in April 1882. The objects in the home were sold at auction, photographs of the dead outlaw were reproduced, and the house in ...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:17
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This short, fully produced audio essay – with music and sound effects – is a rumination on growing old, with a nod to the effects of Alzheimer's. I...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:38
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
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There's a dish of small tomatoes sitting in my refrigerator this afternoon. I think they are the last ones I'm going to get this year. I don't li...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2010
  • Length: 03:25
Caption: Mug and Cone Drive-In, today, Credit: Carroll Dale Short
A drive-in with a haunted jukebox, circa 1963.

  • Added: May 09, 2010
  • Length: 03:51
Caption: RiverCenter for the Performing Arts, Columbus, GA
An observation on the city of Columbus, GA and the arts departments of Columbus State University told with sounds of the street and downtown founta...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2010
  • Length: 04:14
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When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2010
  • Length: 01:00:20
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A short story by Leigh Allison Wilson about love, longing, and memory

  • Added: Jan 13, 2010
  • Length: 03:59
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At 53, Dr. Bruce Churchill was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s Disease.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, PRX Remix, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 10, 2010
  • Length: 07:03
  • Purchases: 4
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Between 50 and 80 percent of American adults carry oral herpes, the virus that causes sold sores. Many people with oral herpes never show any symp...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2010
  • Length: 07:19
Caption: Homestead, 2007, Credit: Erin McGhee
During a final visit to their childhood home, three siblings face up to their past -- and to each other. A Chatterbox original.

  • Added: Nov 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:24
Caption: Dead and Gone, 2009 - Ink on paper, Credit: Samantha Sherry
A Southern retelling of James Joyce's classic story "The Dead." In early-20th-century Memphis, an insecure schoolteacher struggles to navigate the ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 01:03:20
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Two children grow up completely different

Bought by The Story, PRX Remix, KUT, KUOW, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Jun 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:33
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: school on wheels logo, Credit: www.schoolonwheels.org
School on Wheels is a non-profit program located in Los Angeles which pairs volunteer tutors to homeless students.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 11, 2009
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 3