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Caption: 'The Conjuror', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This program is a 5 minute spoken word program that is a recitation of renaissance fables. Part of the 76 episode series available on Public Radio ...

  • Added: May 17, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Lady With An Ermine', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This 5 minute program brings to your audience the fables of Leonardo da Vinci. Part of the spoken word series of 76 programs, we explore some of th...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Self Portrait, Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This program is 5 minutes in length, and celebrates some of the renaissance fables of Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Statue Of Leonardo da Vinci', Credit: Luigi Pampaloni
This program explores some of the renaissance fables of Leonardo da Vinci. It is part of a series that celebrates three other great renaissance wri...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'A Man With A Quilted Sleeve', Credit: Titian
Spoken Word readings of some of the renaissance fables of Bartolomeo Scala. This program is exactly 5 minutes in length, and is part of a series th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
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The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
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Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
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This episode features Spoons collaborations, both willing and unwilling. The willing ones are beautiful and inspiring. The unwilling one is a weird...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
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Rodrigo Torres is searching for the truth about creativity.

  • Added: Jan 02, 2020
  • Length: 03:46
Caption: Bobby Cannavale
In the comic classic, MERE MORTALS by David Ives, a construction worker reveals he is secretly, actually the Lindbergh baby. Turns out his pals hav...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
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What a year was 1913! Many have called it the true beginning of 20th century culture. From New York, where the first large-scale show of modern ar...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, KPIK-LP, WFMT Station Account, WGBH Radio Boston, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 33
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"Projectiles", a poem written by American short story writer Raymond Carver, is read by poet Tess Gallagher, Carver's widow. The poem was written ...

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 1
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A short ride on the "poetry bus"

Bought by KSFR, PRX Remix, New Hampshire Public Radio, KZSC, and KLCC


  • Added: Jan 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 5
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Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham invokes the spirit of Walt Whitman in his latest book ?Specimen Days? ? part of a wave of post 9/1...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jul 06, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 1
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An intimate look at the life and work of poet Donald Justice, as told through the memories of friends, family, and fellow poets.

  • Added: Feb 16, 2006
  • Length: 58:15