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Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

Bought by WCPN, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 11
Poem for Today, March 4 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya and Elizabeth Smart

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:30
Poem for Today, March 17 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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Poems about betrayal in love by John updike and Sir Thomas Wyatt

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Carolina
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Spoken Word: The Capital Poetry Collective Series
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Ritallin performs live: A passionate and erotic piece from one of Canada's best spoken word artists

  • Added: Feb 19, 2006
  • Length: 02:03
Natural Fluidity
From: Susan Johnston
Series: Spoken Word: The Capital Poetry Collective Series
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Ritallin performs live: A passionate and erotic piece from one of Canada's best spoken word artists

  • Added: Feb 19, 2006
  • Length: :53
Donald Justice: In Pursuit of the Ideal
From: Iowa Public Radio
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An intimate look at the life and work of poet Donald Justice, as told through the memories of friends, family, and fellow poets.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 58:15
What's the Word? Famous Love Letters
From: Modern Language Association
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Love letters from some very famous couples

Bought by WLIW, KVSC, Spokane Public Radio, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? Petrarch and Love Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at how many contemporary ideas about love come from the love sonnets of fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

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


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Maniac Magee’s legendary - he’s incredible at basketball, running and untying knots. All he wants is a home. But sometimes finding where you belong...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 21, 2005
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
Twilight's Breaking Dawn
From: Jacob C. Norman
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
Fog Magic
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Magic in the fog launches Greta on an adventure that takes her back into the past and reveals secrets in her own life.

Bought by KZYX and KTNA


  • Added: May 03, 2005
  • Length: 28:21
  • Purchases: 2
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
LIVE at the Writers House: Writers who work at Penn
From: WXPN
Series: LIVE at the Writers House
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This edition of LIVE at the Writers House features poets and writers from the University of Pennsylvania community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 59:01
1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Barry, Bob & Me
From: Brian Beatty
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An aspiring writer discovers that inspiration and imitation aren't the same thing.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2005
  • Length: 04:00
Present Progressive
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Intimate, documentary-style radio play about the author's experiences as an English teacher in the North of France - never broadcast in the US.

  • Added: Jan 18, 2004
  • Length: 29:21
The Thief Lord, by Cornelia Funke
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Runaways find themselves on a magical adventure amid a long-forgotten mystery.

Bought by KZYX and KTNA


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 27:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Same Stuff as Stars, by Katherine Paterson
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Abandoned, Angel struggles to care for her brother and finds her only peace with a mysterious man who shares with her the wonder of the stars.

Bought by KZYX, KTNA, and KUT


  • Added: Jan 12, 2004
  • Length: 28:52
  • Purchases: 3

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