PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is She’s a Maneater!—a collection of poems featuring history’s most dangerous and misunde...

  • Added: Sep 26, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson famously wrote “’Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” All of Cupid’s victims might beg to diff...

  • Added: May 03, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
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In part one of this interview, Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort reads from her early books, including FACTORY OF TEARS, in both English and Belarusian...

Bought by WNJR and WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood, said, “Imagination…can open any door—turn the key and let terror walk right in.” This week on melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2020
  • Length: 01:00:03
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Today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features poet Valzhyna Mort, whose work gives insight into her native country, Belarus. She shares poetry fr...

Bought by WRKF, WNJR, and WJCU


  • Added: Sep 01, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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It is an experimental radio piece based on the poem by the Argentine poet Oliverio Girondo. 25 seconds of life was created in the context of the ne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2018
  • Length: 15:11
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist,teacher and poet from the Twin Cities. He describes the map of his activities as an archipelago of isl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads his poem "Embrace Noir."

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:57
  • Purchases: 2
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Mary MacGregor was raised in Superior, Wisconsin and lives in Duluth now. She's been writing poetry since she was fifteen and she has one self publ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Hadara Bar-Nadav refers to many works of art in her 2012 collection THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, while in her 2013 collection, LULLABY (WITH EXIT SI...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jun 13, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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2010 NEA Literature Fellow Adam Johnson talks the challenges of setting a novel in North Korea. [29:00]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
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Have a listen to our first episode of Tabled Fables where we discuss Little Red Riding Hood with analysis by author and fairy tale scholar Jack Zip...

  • Added: Nov 03, 2012
  • Length: 17:55
Caption: Isaac Rosenberg
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 07:46
  • Purchases: 1
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You're surrounded by strangers on the subway. Can you hide?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 01:34
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Sep 19, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
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Those expelled from a gold mining camp are trapped by an early snowfall.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2012
  • Length: 24:18
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Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:31
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
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Violinist Eugene Drucker reads an excerpt from his debut novel, THE SAVIOR (reissued in Paperback on July 8, 2008).

Bought by WFIU


  • Added: Jun 30, 2008
  • Length: 02:16
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with writer Bill Floyd

  • Added: May 29, 2008
  • Length: 02:53
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funeral director and writer waxes poetic

  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 03:45
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Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2