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Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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
The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
100 Years of Nonsense
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A building in the Hatibagan neighborhood in North Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
Delaware State of the Arts - Don Foster, Novelist
From: Andrew Truscott
Series: Delaware State of the Arts Podcast
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Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
The Mystery of Creativity
From: Colleen Thomas
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Rodrigo Torres is searching for the truth about creativity.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:46
Minnesota Native News: New Grant, New Book and New Exhibit
From: Ampers
Series: Minnesota Native News
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This week on Minnesota Native News we hear about a big boost to a handful of organizations working with Native communities. We also hear about a ne...

Bought by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota, KSRQ, WGZS, KMSU, WDSE and more


  • Added: Nov 13, 2019
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 8
Neither Wolf Nor Dog: A Novel Becomes A Movie
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Hybrid image of book cover and movie poster
World reknowned author Kent Nerburn wrote the novel Neither Wolf Nor Dog in the early 1990s. Director Steven Lewis Simpson made it into a movie o...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Mar 10, 2017
  • Length: 13:54
  • Purchases: 1
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 75
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the band Rockstar Frame, actor Michael Sun Lee, and The Plot Against America, in...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2016
  • Length: 58:01
Side By Sondheim
From: George Harter
Series: A Night on the Town
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The best of Stephen Sondheim from "West Side Story" to "Into The Woods"

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WVTF, and WRR


  • Added: Mar 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:09
  • Purchases: 3
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 71
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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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
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 69
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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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
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 66
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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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
Poetry behind bars
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Prisoners aren’t known for being emotional. But a program at a Maine jail has inmates sharing personal poems with each other.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: May 27, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering Melvin McCosh
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
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Melvin McCosh was a poet, musician and bookstore owner who sold out of his home, and later in Dinkytown and the West Bank. KFAI producer Britt Aamo...

Bought by WDSE


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 06:02
  • Purchases: 1
NaNoWriMo
From: David Berner
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 45
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Author Susan Nadathur, the band Jive Coulis, and New York Times bestseller Missi...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 01:02:53
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 44
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring Painter Joshua Smith, Musician Stevie Marco, and New York Times bestseller Ricoc...

  • Added: Jun 05, 2014
  • Length: 56:55
Finding Place in The Placelessness: A Conversation about Midwestern Literature with Justin Hamm and Christina Olson
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
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
Remembering Eudora Welty
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Eudora Welty, New Haven, CT, 1974, Credit: William Ferris
Eudora Welty was one of the South’s most beloved writers, and her fiction is still a study in detail and dialogue and wit. Her settings were often ...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 17, 2014
  • Length: 13:47
  • Purchases: 2
Bestselling Novelist Cassandra King
From: Tanner Latham
Series: Authentic South
Caption: Cassandra King, Credit: Tanner Latham
Bestselling novelist Cassandra King talks about her new book Moonrise as well as her writing relationship with her husband, famous author Pat Conro...

Bought by Troy Public Radio and Georgia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Jan 07, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
  • Purchases: 2
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 34
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring South African Flutist Wouter Kellerman, International Fusion Music Star Ricky Kej...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2013
  • Length: 58:20
Get Behind Me, Now Stay There - Episode 33
From: Get Behind Me , Now Stay There
Series: Get Behind Me, Now Stay There
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know! Featuring Audie Winner Sue Zizza, KMET Legend Warren Duffy, and Sandra Brown’s audiobook Toug...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:21
Lit Slam brings poetry slam to the page
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
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If you think you want to launch a new poetry slam, first take a walk through the Bay Area. Your cutting edge idea may have already been done. In Sa...

  • Added: Sep 17, 2013
  • Length: 10:24
Sneak into a squat for a dose of literature
From: KALW
Caption: A recent reading at 851: The Squat
Given the high demand for living space in San Francisco, it may be hard to believe that any apartment is sitting around empty. But there's at least...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2013
  • Length: 07:02
  • Purchases: 1
Imagination of the Screenwriter with Academy Award Winner Geoffrey Fletcher
From: Artsy Fartsy Show
Series: Artsy Fartsy Show
Caption: Geoffrey Fletcher with The Script for the Imagination Series
Academy Award Winner, Geoffrey Fletcher sits down with Artsy Fartsy Show's Barika Taheer Edwards to chat about screenwriting and the his launch of ...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2012
  • Length: 17:06