PRX - Pieces for Tone: Melancholic

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We are all busy getting older, for better and for worse. Here is an unvarnished perspective on aging by author Marc Estrin. Marc Estrin is a write...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 05:59
  • Purchases: 1
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We honor the life of poet Mark Strand, who passed away on November 29, 2014 at the age of 80. This archive recording features the former U.S. Poet ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This Women's Words features Terri Falsani reading her poem "Barred Owl."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 15, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Julia Klatt-Singer writes, and paints, and walks the dog. Her work can be found online and heard on The Real Phonic Radio Hour. The Beat is a daily...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
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Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...

  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 01:19
Caption: The Invasion of the Pines on Fire Island, Credit: Mike Fisher
For most of the 20th Century, New York's Fire Island was virtually the only place on Earth where gay men and lesbians felt safe to live and to love...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, KFAI Minneapolis, and Wild Planet Radio


  • Added: Nov 25, 2014
  • Length: 25:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Kingwood Kowboy, Credit: Performed by Rod Johnson
It's his last cowboy waltz before she marries another cowboy next Sunday. Music & Vocals by Rod Johnson. Lyrics by Larry W Jones, Kingwood Kowboy.

  • Added: Nov 21, 2014
  • Length: 03:51
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Army Sgt. Ryan Sharp speaks with his father, Kirk Sharp, about feeling off after coming...

Bought by WEZU, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 03:03
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Singapore Cowboy Sanjay Lal
This heart of his will never mend until he finds true love, and then, it will take some time, he knows that it's true, for his heart to get over you.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
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Dancing under bar room lights is a delight unless her dancing is with someone else. Music & Vocals by the Singapore Cowboy, Sanjay Lal.

  • Added: Nov 03, 2014
  • Length: 02:42
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A Hill Country Treasure, the Georgetown Palace Theatre-from the Depression through today, a radio profile of a town’s beloved venue.

  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:58
Caption: The Rios family grave in San Felipe del Agua, Oaxaca, Mexico, decorated for Dia de los Muertos in 2011, Credit: photo: Marcus Teply
A Spanish-language audio postcard from the cemetery at San Felipe del Agua in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio


  • Added: Oct 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:07
  • Purchases: 1
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This Women's Words features Linda LeGarde Grover reading from her book "The Road Back to Sweetgrass."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 20, 2014
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 1
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:06
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Kevin Lucey talks to his wife, Joyce Lucey, about their son Jeff who was a...

Bought by WEZU and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
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Third Episode of Aural Regions

  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 10:25
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Nicaraguan author Sergio Ramirez has written a poignant and bittersweet baseball story with sporting, political and historical allusions- and the a...

Bought by KSLU


  • Added: Sep 17, 2014
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Jacob Furr, Credit: Official Press Photo
When coffee blogger, Christina Furr, passed away after an aggressive brain tumor, her husband of three years, songwriter Jacob Furr, wrote Trails &...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2014
  • Length: 38:11
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Sekou Siby, a former kitchen worker at Windows on the World restaurant in the World...

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Sep 05, 2014
  • Length: 02:08
  • Purchases: 1
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Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
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Former Baltimore police officer Mytokia Fair remembers the day she shot and killed her abusive...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and KMUD


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 3
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Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Danger Days". The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poe...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:57
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As dawn breaks, birds serenade Eric Jones, who crosses a church parking lot in his baggy jeans, jangling an oversized key ring. The plastic wheels ...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Jul 29, 2014
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 1