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"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 2
A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:24
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The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook
The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
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Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
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Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
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Three Poems for Hard Times
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook
"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 03:12
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Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:14
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On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook
Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:03
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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.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
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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
How My Rescue Dog Taught Me to Fully Love at 65
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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Rona Maynard found happiness at 65—a story she tells in her new memoir Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
IE: Inside Europe, 3/29/2024
From: DW - Deutsche Welle
Series: Inside Europe: News and Current Affairs ~ Weekly from DW
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Will Putin use the Moscow theatre attack to further tighten his grip? What if a pro-Western candidate wins Slovakia's presidential election... And ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
The U.S. military is going to Gaza, hoping to deliver food from a football-field-sized floating dock
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: Soldiers and family members await the departure of the James A. Loux, an Army watercraft, from Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, March 12. It's among several Army and Navy vessels headed to the Mediterranean Sea for a Gaza relief effort., Credit: Steve Walsh / American Homefront
The mobile dock can deliver up to two million meals a day, but key questions about the mission remain unanswered.

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 03:43
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Good Holi Ramadan
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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The stars are aligned this week. Its a week for Holi, Ramadan and Good Friday, which is a perfect way to showcase how many faiths in Kolkata exist ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Nico Cathcart: A Contemporary Renaissance. Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Nico at the unveiling of her three-story mural, A New Dawn in Hopewell, Virginia., Credit: Charles McGuigan
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a fla...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2024
  • Length: 25:47
Can Washington Make Medicare and Medicaid Work Better Together?
From: Tradeoffs
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A bipartisan bill takes aim at a $500 billion health care problem that few people have ever heard of. Will it make care better for some of the coun...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 19:17
With fake weapons and phony uniforms, they helped win WWII. Now, they're finally getting medals.
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: A soldier sits next to a fake inflatable tank used by the U.S. Army during World War II. The inflatables and other decoys were deployed in Europe to fool enemy troops about the positions and movements of real Army units., Credit: Ghost Army Legacy Project
The U.S. will bestow Congressional Gold Medals on members of a secret Army unit that carried out what came to be known as psychological operations.

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 4
I Tried to Deny My Dad’s Dementia
From: Nicole Christina
Series: Zestful Aging Podcast
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This episode looks at the difficulty of realizing that a loved one is experiencing cognitive decline.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
War Diaries: From Kyiv to Tripoli
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Audio documentaries from the front lines

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  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
Self Help Me!
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Self-help books promise a secret formula to individual success and Jay Shetty is just the latest Dale Carnegie to do so. But, even after the Guardi...

  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
789-Asteroid With A Tail
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Comet ISON, Credit: HST
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Josh Hogan was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Taurus with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona wh...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 8
Kara Swisher: Where the Tech Love Story Went Wrong
From: Mateo Schimpf
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Plus, a surprising story about reality TV in Kenya

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  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 4
As Congress repeatedly flirts with government shutdowns, military families face crisis fatigue
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson speaks with troops at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana on Feb 23, 2024. Since Johnson became Speaker in October, Congress has dealt with multiple government shutdown threats as the House has struggled to pass long-term, Credit: Seth Watson / U.S. Air Force
Each threatened shutdown can lead to stress in the military community about missing paychecks and losing access to federal programs.

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  • Added: Mar 05, 2024
  • Length: 03:21
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