PRX - Pieces for Tone: Contemplative

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Anton Disclafani discusses the writing process behind her acclaimed debut novel, The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls.

  • Added: Mar 10, 2016
  • Length: 13:33
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This is part 2 of Episode 1 of the radio drama, "Columbus Myth." "Columbus Myth" is a speculative piece written from an African American perspecti...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 10:14
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One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...

Bought by KBIA, WVAS, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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MaryAnn Wilimek writes poetry and creative nonfiction in Bemidji.Her work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Relief, Lake Country Journal, Radi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:02
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Lynn Freed, author of the fictional journal chronicling a woman's life in South Africa titled “The Mirror.”

  • Added: Aug 13, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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
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Author and feminist pop cultural critic Roxane Gay talks about her upcoming novel, her approach to telling Haitian stories, and what writers can le...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2013
  • Length: 39:22
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:38
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Riding with Emily." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minneso...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 01:47
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
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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 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
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
Caption: Khadijah Queen
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:03
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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: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:55
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Poet Athena Kildegaard lives in "prairie pothole country," her term for Morris, Minnesota where she is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. A...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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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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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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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 02:16
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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: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
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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