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A Public Reading with Poet and Essayist Rigoberto González

From: New Letters on the Air

As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNJR, KRZA, and WMUU-LP

Added: Oct 12, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 4

PN 16-17 “Rosary (Prayer One)” by J. Michael Martinez

From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow

J. Michael Martinez writes of love and the body through the language of the natural world.

Bought by KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix

Added: Oct 07, 2016
Length: 04:00
Purchases: 3

PN 16-16 "Maine Coast" by Lillian-Yvonne Bertram

From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow

Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.

Bought by KALW, WOUB, and KENW

Added: Oct 03, 2016
Length: 04:00
Purchases: 3

#SayHerName: Black Love in Action

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Jamison and Yuvette at the BART Station going to Disney on Ice, Credit: Photo provided by Jamison Robinson

Jamison Robinson, Yuvette Henderson’s brother, talks about the difference it makes when a community comes together to demand justice after the poli...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXDU, and WRIR

Added: Jun 30, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1532 (Hour 1 & 2) - 06/09/2016

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

A fresh updated big band version of Cannonball Adderley is opened with Chris Doc Stewart, and if ever the cool of Leonard Bernstein met Gil Evans' ...

Bought by WMOT, WYAP, KCMJ Community Radio, WJSU, WVBI-LP and more

Added: Jun 07, 2016
Length: 01:59:57
Purchases: 8

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1525 (Hour 1 & 2) - 04/21/2016

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Real bebop bookends the swing and free eras for starters, without playing either. Monk is composer way before he was was known, Illinois Jacquet no...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WKAR, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Apr 19, 2016
Length: 01:59:59
Purchases: 6

Former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

From: New Letters on the Air

Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WNJR

Added: Apr 05, 2016
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 2

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1522 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/31/2016

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Mellifluous Memphis piano and classy not classroom big band sounds abound, Phineas Newborn and NAU respectively. Mellow into British Bill Bruford, ...

Bought by WVBI-LP, KCMJ Community Radio, WOUB, WYAP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more

Added: Mar 30, 2016
Length: 02:00:01
Purchases: 6

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1520 (Hour 1 & 2) - 03/17/2016

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Bassist Jack Radavich is featured artist, a new recording of Harry Warren material, later in the broadcast playing Neil Hefti. Chicago's young blue...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio, WVBI-LP, WOUB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WKAR

Added: Mar 15, 2016
Length: 01:59:58
Purchases: 5

Auntie

From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata

A heartfelt goodbye to a favorite Aunt.

Added: Feb 16, 2016
Length: 06:00

Poet and Novelist Philip Lee Williams

From: New Letters on the Air

Philip Lee Williams talks about how science, literature, music and visual art have helped shape his writing life. In this first half of a two part ...

Bought by WMUU-LP

Added: Dec 18, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

02-10: Becoming a Habitat: Motherhood, Faith and the Environmental Human Rights Movement , 10/14/2015

From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature

Caption: Sandra Steingraber, Credit: Tim Porter

We live in a society dependent on toxic chemicals. Today about 287 such chemicals trespass inside the blood of newborns – and inside all of us - wi...

Added: Oct 15, 2015
Length: 28:30

I Am - A Song Story

From: Will Heron
Series: Song Stories

Patrick Dorey sends us his Song Story about a time in his life when, with the loss of his Mom, he began to question who he was.

Added: Sep 06, 2015
Length: 05:19

New Orleans Reconstruction Workers Fight to Remain

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Immigrants and supporters march down Poydras Street in New Orleans on July 10., Credit: Jasmin Mara Lopez

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina ripped through the Southern Gulf Coast. Reconstruction after Katrina drew thousands of people from India, Bra...

Bought by XRAY.fm

Added: Aug 07, 2015
Length: 08:59
Purchases: 1

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1485 (Hour 1 & 2) - 07/16/2015

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Size matters in band sound, brass on woodwinds on rhythm from little big to Twilight, blues in vintage Woody Herman, and twelve tone too with Bill ...

Bought by KPVL, WYAP, WVBI-LP, and WOUB

Added: Jul 14, 2015
Length: 01:59:58
Purchases: 4

Korean Born Author Maija Rhee Devine

From: New Letters on the Air

As part of Park University's Ethnic Voices Poetry Series at the Kansas City Public Library, Maija (May-jah) Rhee (ree) Devine recounts how her extr...

Bought by WMUU-LP, WNJR, and XRAY.fm

Added: May 29, 2015
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 3

#20 MIW AJ LOVEWINS – FOUNDER OF HARMONIC HUMANITY

From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio

Our guest AJ Lovewins created Harmonic Humanity as an additional resource to the homeless.

Added: Feb 17, 2015
Length: 30:49

Full Moon Hacksaw # 1461 (Hour 1 & 2) - 01/29/2015

From: KRDP
Series: Full Moon Hacksaw

Our favorite Serbian blues guitarist Ana Popovic starts a Hacksaw groove, then from Ruthie Foster's seasoned voice thru samba snow and vintage main...

Bought by KBBI Alaska, WKAR, WOUB, KPVL, WVBI-LP and more

Added: Jan 27, 2015
Length: 01:59:53
Purchases: 7

Memoirist Cheryl Strayed

From: New Letters on the Air

Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU

Added: Dec 11, 2014
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 5

Fallen Heroes of 2014

From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact

Caption: Yuri Kochiyama, Credit: Bob Hsiang

Hundreds of social justice advocates and organizers passed away in 2014, leaving their work behind as their legacy, but often also leaving an irrep...

Bought by WNJR and KVSC