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Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
We’ll feature four modern masterpieces for string quartet by Walter Mays, John Adams, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Corigliano on this episode of What...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Margaret Noodin sings a poem in Anishinaabemowin and discusses Native American languages and heritage.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHNS, KHSU, KALW, and KENW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
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...
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
J. Michael Martinez writes of love and the body through the language of the natural world.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...
- Added: Jun 09, 2016
- Length: 50:26
Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Grisham Middle School 2014-15
Series: Grisham Middle School 2014-15
Amanda Johnston is a school secretary, but during her free time, she invents new forms of poetry, drawing inspiration from her life's stories. Yout...
- Added: Feb 27, 2015
- Length: 03:46
Lou Berney is the author of three novels, THE LONG AND FARAWAY GONE, WHIPLASH RIVER, and GUTSHOT STRAIGHT, as well as a collection of short stories...
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 15:27
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
Short Description: MEMOIR about her soldier son who committed suicide. She talks about writing non-fiction and her earlier elegiac book, EMBALMING...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Tent Show Radio takes the show on the road to beautiful Fish Creek, Wisconsin featuring special guest artist Katie Dahl along with host Michael Per...
Bought by WDSE, WRNC-LP, KSRQ, Wisconsin Public Radio, WNMU-FM and more
- Added: May 19, 2014
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 6
Andre Dubus III's memoir Townie isn’t a literary coming of age story. It’s an exploration of violence and absence. [30:37]
Bought by Harford Community Radio and KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 19, 2014
- Length: 30:37
- Purchases: 2
Emily Brisse's place based work has appeared in publications like Orion, The Writer's Chronicle, and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. She teaches ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 01:42
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Have you ever had an unruly pet? How about an exasperated spouse--fed up with that unruly pet--who issues a final ultimatum: either the pet goes, o...
- Added: Feb 07, 2013
- Length: 19:44
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:44
Aaron Brown on books.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 03:36
