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The Beat: Shanthi Siva - "Word Power"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Shanthi Siva is originally from India, and now lives in Rochester Minnesota with her family. She has a Masters Degree in English Language and Liter...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
The Beat: Will Weaver - "Minnesota Grooming"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Will Weaver retired from 24 years as a professor at Bemidji State University to write full time. He has published something like a dozen books, fi...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Real Good Words: Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
Caption: The Survivors by Will Weaver
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Michelle Boisseau
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...

  • Added: Jan 02, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
The Future of Us
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
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The new novel by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler poses the question of how a person would live their life if they had a window to their future selves.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
Literary Brooklyn
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Vince Martinez on Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Vince Martinez, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Vince Martinez discusses his song inspired by Chapters 11 and 12 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, written and p...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!: Michael Wallenfels discussing Shel Silverstein
From: Geoff Larson
Series: The Bushwick Book Club Seattle Presents!
Caption: Michael Wallenfels, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Michael Wallenfels discusses his song inspired by Shel Silverstein's My Moon Catchin' Net.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 19, 2011
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 2
ThoughtCast: The Impact of the Written Word
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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This new ThoughtCast series explores the impact of the written word. It examines a specific piece of writing — be it a poem, play, novel, short sto...

Bought by KUT and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 57:55
  • Purchases: 2
"Is Ghostwriting Ethical?" with guest Deborah Brandt
From: Prairie Public
Series: Why? Philosophical Discussions About Everyday Life
Caption: Deborah Brandt
Every day, politicians publish books telling the stories of their lives and their political views. But more often than not these “autobiographies” ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 1
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Author Molly Gloss and the Heroines of the American West
From: Dmae Lo Roberts
Series: Stage and Studio
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This show profiles novelist Molly Gloss, whose books have shed light on untold stories of women in the American West.

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 27:52
  • Purchases: 1
Portrait of an Artist: a semi-regular series
From: KUT
Series: Portrait of an Artist-a semi-regular series
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
Dead and Gone
From: Chatterbox Audio Theater
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
Hark! - the acoustic world of Elizabethan England
From: Battery Radio
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Four centuries ago... did people listen in a different way than we do now? How different were the sounds they heard? And can we tune into their aud...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, HowSound, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis and more


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 52:24
  • Purchases: 8
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Irish Poet Eavan Boland
From: KUOW
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Irish poet Eavan Boland talks about why we cannot leave the past to the people who write the history books.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2008
  • Length: 12:43
Garrison Keillor Reads from "My Antonia"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Garrison Keillor reads from Willa Cather's Midwestern classic, "My Antonia."

  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:00
"He changed his mind..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
Your Brain On Music
From: WHPC
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Studies show that many areas of your brain process music.

  • Added: Feb 19, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
"One side is windy, the other is not."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The thoughts of two women traveling on the same ferry...but very much alone.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Apr 09, 2007
  • Length: 11:40
  • Purchases: 1
Simplify Me When I'm Dead
From: Miranda Diboll
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How the media simplify a life though obituaries or even just a few simple lines.

Bought by The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Apr 03, 2007
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 1
Finding My Kerouac: On the Road at Mid-Life
From: David Berner
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This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...

Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2007
  • Length: 57:05
  • Purchases: 7
"I asked her to sing a song."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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First comes trust. Then comes control.

Bought by KUNM and WMNF


  • Added: Jul 13, 2006
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 2