PRX - Pieces for Tone: Inspiring

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Poet Dan Jaffe is the guest co-editor of the most recent issue of NEW LETTERS magazine that focuses on jazz. Jaffe, who has always combined his poe...

Bought by KFCF FM and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 03, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Heidi Holtan talks to Minnesota author Shelly Boyum-Breen about the Pine River-Backus areas 9th Annual Community Read, which will be focusing on th...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 23:38
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Speeches on writing and peace from the winners of the 2016 Dayton Literary Peace Prize: Susan Southard, Viet Thanh Nguyen and Marilynne Robinson- w...

Bought by KVNF


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 51:25
  • Purchases: 1
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Ani Tuzman talks about her novel based on the life of the 18th century Jewish mystic, the Baal Shem Tov. Its called The Tremble of Love. Then, we r...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 23, 2016
  • Length: 01:38:32
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Yolanda Wisher, poet, Credit: Ryan Collerd
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.

Bought by KHSU, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...

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


  • Added: Dec 01, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Leonard Cohen: How a shy, sensitive poet from Canada became a major recording artist. This one-hour radio show documents Leonard Cohen's very firs...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2016
  • Length: 57:30
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Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Nov 09, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Stan Kusunoki is a high-potential elementary teacher in Shakopee, Minn., who is also a published poet. He stopped by WTIP's The Roadhouse to chat w...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2016
  • Length: 19:32
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Alaska's own, Maeva Ordaz, on winning the 2015 Poetry Out Loud national title;

  • Added: Oct 20, 2016
  • Length: 06:59
Caption: Out on Highway 61
Here's the Nobel Prize for Literature winning Bob Dylan mixed with music and words from Barack Obama, the Nobel committee, Les Crane, James Taylor ...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2016
  • Length: 56:38
Caption: Ashley Bryan
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Interview with Author and screenwriter Michaelbrent Collings.

  • Added: Oct 01, 2016
  • Length: 59:39
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This week we meet John Adams, the director of dual enrollment at the University of Toledo, local photographer, writer, and student. Find out how al...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2016
  • Length: 05:50
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Brett Carter talks with Minnesota Children's Illustrator and Author Nancy Carlson about her life and work.

  • Added: Aug 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:19
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From his philosophy on editing to the best advice for aspiring writers, Chuck Klosterman brings us into his creative process.

Bought by KGUA


  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 08:41
  • Purchases: 1
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Anyone who's ever been an awkward adolescent knows that for decades now, dog-eared copies of Judy Blume's books have been passed around school play...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Donald Hall is now 87 and no longer writing poetry, a pursuit he calls "a young man's game" which takes "too much testosterone." But Hall, former P...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 06:57
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As a writer, Joe Hill's family name could have given him a leg up. Instead, he chose to create his own. In this episode of the 10-Minute Writer's W...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 12:19
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The bestselling author of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand - and bonafide Charming British Lady - Helen Simonson lets us in on her writing process, her...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:31
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Aaron Mahnke is creator of the spooky folktale podcast Lore which quickly shot up the iTunes charts and landed him a television deal. He's also a n...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 11:36
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Richard Russo is the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Empire Falls and Nobody’s Fool - both adapted into films starring Paul Newman. He returns to ...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:41
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"Kill 'em and leave" was James Brown's commandment to his band before every show...it's also the title of a biography of the soul legend, the lates...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 09:52
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(with a new book by Greenpeace Captain Peter Wilcox) Summertime again, and what better time to pack a few books and head to the beach? In this epi...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:33
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Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2016
  • Length: 50:26