PRX - Pieces for Tone: Personal

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Caption: V, formerly known as Eve Ensler, Credit: Nikki Richter
They say love means never having to say you’re sorry. But what if that popular aphorism from the 1960’s is wrong and that love precisely means havi...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
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Internist Ashley McMullen decides to let her hair go natural for the first time in over a decade — a process which serves as a metaphor for self-ac...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2022
  • Length: 41:05
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An Interview with Deborah Campbell about her Investigative Non-Fiction Book "A Disappearance in Damascus"

  • Added: Apr 29, 2019
  • Length: 30:01
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Stephanie Land discusses her memoir, "Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive." She also reads a few short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Prairie Public, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Elaine Kahn, poet
Elaine Kahn meditates on care, loss, and the uncertainty of the future.

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Mary Cisper, poet
Mary Cisper mediates on loss and grief after the death of her former husband.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Ana Bozicevic, poet
Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring.

Bought by KALW, KENW, and KHSU


  • Added: Sep 18, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Neltje discusses her development as an artist, her love of landscape, and the hardships she faced growing up. She also reads from her memoir.

Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KWMR


  • Added: Aug 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Sara Deniz Akant, poet
Sara Deniz Akant considers the virtues and meaning of one’s name.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Aug 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Nikki Wallschlaeger, poet
Nikki Wallschlaeger meditates on issues of accountability.

Bought by KALW, KENW, and KHSU


  • Added: Jul 28, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Amanda Nadelberg, poet
Amanda Nadelberg reflects on life accomplishments and what has been left unachieved.

Bought by KENW, KALW, and WOUB


  • Added: Jul 10, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son.

Bought by KUER, KHSU, KENW, PRX Remix, and KALW


  • Added: May 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Caitlin Doyle, poet, Credit: Michael Robinson
Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Hannah Brooks-Motl, poet, Credit: CS Ward
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future

Bought by PRX Remix, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Feb 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Monica McClure, poet, Credit: David Worthington
Monica McClure imagines a prophet in the forest who collects the lives of men.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 30, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Rachel Galvin, poet, Credit: Nicholas Barberio
Rachel Galvin contemplates the politics of complicity.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dara Wier, poet, Credit: Julia Johnson
Dara Wier meditates on the mind’s need for security and sanctuary from a troubled world.

Bought by KALW, PRX Remix, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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This week is our introduction to the topic of women, health, and prison. We speak with some prisoners from the Indiana Women's Prison about their e...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 29:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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In GBA 18 we get better acquainted with Sam. She talks about having a premature baby, being a young mum, nearly marrying a man she met on holiday i...

  • Added: May 22, 2012
  • Length: 55:13
Caption: Cheryl Strayed - Wild
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 26:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Angela Bofill, Credit: http://www.angelabofill.com/
ANGELA BOFILL tells her story beginning with arranging and singing with RICARDO MARRERO. Her solo career began with the release of her first LP on ...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2011
  • Length: 52:16