PRX - Pieces for Tone: NPR NewsMagazine-y

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

27 results


Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry Month and Einstein creating E=mc squared

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Thomas Edison and what his light did- understood through an American Sonnet.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing; American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook (Finishing Line, 2020))
In the large, large universe, the mind's eye still sees what it will.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 14, 2021
  • Length: :57
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 19, 2021
  • Length: 01:42
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Donald Hall died on June 23rd. A sonnet written after reading his essay on growing old.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jun 24, 2018
  • Length: 01:07
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
In Rockland, Maine celebrants of the 129th birthday of Edna St. Vincent Millay gathered zoomlike to honor her poetry. A woman's genius valued for i...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2017
  • Length: 05:32
Piece image
The word “inauguration" takes us all the way back to the politics of ancient Rome and the birds behind the words inauguration, inaugural, auspiciou...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2017
  • Length: 22:14
Piece image
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Nicholas Stanton, Rapper Thraxxup, and The Revenant, now a major motion p...

  • Added: Mar 08, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
Piece image
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the Artist AmarA, Director Sue Zizza, and #1 New York Times bestseller The Grave...

  • Added: Jan 06, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
Piece image
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Director and Writer Don Thacker, Author Dr. Frank Romano, and The Finest Hours i...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:45
Piece image
When I moved to Calcutta from San Francisco, I’d often marvel, that for a city of 4 and half million, everyone seems to know everyone. But writer...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
A funny blog on the site Publishing Perspectives came up with a checklist for the must have ingredients of a bad South Asian diasporan novel. Arran...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Piece image
The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author John C. Payne, Comedian Jan McInnis, and New York Times Bestseller, Summe...

  • Added: Jul 16, 2014
  • Length: 58:01
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Finding Place in the Placelessness: Justin Hamm and Christina Olson talk with assistant editor John McCarthy about their experiences as editors for...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2014
  • Length: 15:53
Piece image
We all know a bad translation when we see one… or do we? I spoke with Jay Rubin, translator for the best-selling author Haruki Murakami, among othe...

  • Added: May 11, 2012
  • Length: 11:35
Piece image
A commentary on lost items

  • Added: Oct 20, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
Piece image
The Count of Monte Cristo made Exxon oil executives look like bottle pickers

  • Added: Aug 01, 2008
  • Length: 02:17
Piece image
Commentary on the Oprah Winfrey/James Frey controversy

  • Added: Mar 14, 2006
  • Length: 04:27
Piece image
Book review of Zeb Pike's travel diary

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 05:05
Piece image
Review of a new old book

  • Added: Nov 28, 2005
  • Length: 04:10
Piece image
Book review of new book

  • Added: Sep 14, 2005
  • Length: 03:41

  • Added: Aug 10, 2005
  • Length: 03:42
Piece image
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