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Charlotte Caldwell, author of 'Voices and Visions'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Visions and Voices: Montana's One-Room Schoolhouses
During this program, photographer and author Charlotte Caldwell talks about the importance of preserving the stories represented by one-room school...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Holiday Episode: At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2012
  • Length: 05:10
Colin Fischer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Colin Fischer, Credit: Jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:42
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 Interfaith Alternative
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
Story-Tell Lib by Annie Trumbull Slosson
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
These are original stories told by a badly crippled 13 year old girl to her friends and neighbors.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:03:10
The poet Sonia Sanchez
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.

Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 3
Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Wild Comfort
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In an effort to make sense of the deaths of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of excursion...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 21, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Heroes Come in Many Colors - Phillis Wheatley
From: Loyola Productions, Inc.
Series: Heroes Come in Many Colors
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The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Recounted in this installment is the life, times, and legacy of Phillis Wheatle...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2010
  • Length: 47:29
Craig Lancaster: 600 Hours of Edward
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Craig Lancaster wrote 600 HOURS OF EDWARD, which is his first novel, during National Novel Writing Month, an annual event in which writers are chal...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 09, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • 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
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Ghanian Students Writing To Their Peace Pals in the U.S., Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 6
The Gift of Thanks
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Caption: The Gift of Thanks
Cultural anthropologist Margaret Visser about her book The Gift of Thanks.

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), KTXK, KWMR, and WRVO Public Media


  • Added: Nov 06, 2009
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 4
Emotional Literacy with Poet Samuel Green
From: Elizabeth Austen
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Washington State poet laureate Sam Green on poetry and “emotional literacy.”

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 12:38
  • Purchases: 1
A Woman of No Consequence
From: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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The story of a remarkable Indian woman who struggled with the bonds of tradition and finally broke them in old age, told by her granddaughter.

Bought by WWNO, KFCF FM, KVNF, KVSC, WOMR and more


  • Added: Jul 07, 2009
  • Length: 31:32
  • Purchases: 20
Told and Retold :Spring
From: Sarah Montague
Caption: "Robert Bly & Gioia Timpanelli
A Seasonal celebration of storytelling : Spring

Bought by North Country Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2009
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Mystical Poets
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
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How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Look! by Nate Marshall
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:26
What's the Word? American AIDS Drama
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at three landmark Amercian plays dealing with the AIDs crisis

Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WRNC-LP, and KPFA


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
Live Deliberate: An Interview With Christopher Gutierrez, Straight Edge Writer and Spoken Word Artist
From: Youth Spin - KOOP 91.7 FM
Series: Straight Edge; Who, What and Why?
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An Interview With Christopher Gutierrez, Straight Edge Writer and Spoken Word Artist

Bought by KUNM, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WXLV-FM


  • Added: May 18, 2007
  • Length: 10:50
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Richard Rohr
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Some people prefer clarity and closure but Father Richard Rohr finds belief and comfort in mystery.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Feb 01, 2007
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 3
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55