PRX - Pieces for Tone: Provocative
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oyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Death Incorporated". You'll hear a reference to Emily Dickenson's...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:07
A woman reveals her terror when her recently-retired husband is suddenly in poor health.
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A sister reminds her accusing brother who held the household together when the mother was abusive and alcoholic in their growing-up years. The sco...
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
An elderly man prepares to take his senile wife to the nursing home, trying inarticulately to express his love.
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- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:37
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A woman questions her 15 year old daughter about going out with an older man and being busted. "The grass was Chuck's."
- Added: Jun 15, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man is furious at his siblings making a public show of love for their deceased mother: they never showed their love while she was alive.
- Added: Jun 14, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two men talk of a couple whose bizarre lifestyle has nevertheless supported a love and commitment stronger than what the men have experienced in th...
- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A married man tells a woman with whom he's having an affair of the time in his childhood: when he felt unconditional love.
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- Added: Jun 09, 2004
- Length: 01:37
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Sister and brother clean up the aftermath of a bloody parental fight, wondering if this is just what moms and dads do. As adults they wonder if it...
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- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
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A mother berates that her teenage daughter to learn from the mistakes the mother made as a teen. Problem is, Mom won't say what mistakes.
- Added: Jun 08, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A man and a woman communicate through the medium of a board game, briefly wondering, "Is there more to life than this?"
- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A child wonders why his grandfather has been made to live alone in a converted chicken house. Dad: It's not a chicken house!
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- Added: Jun 05, 2004
- Length: 01:38
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On the verge of love-making, a couple quarrel about taking out the garbage. The only solution: divorce.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A cleaning lady tells her baffled employer that she has disowned her own son for going against the tenets of their church.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young working-class couple proclaim their firm commitment to their marriage, and, in the next breath, separate.
- Added: Jun 04, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A young couple worry over their feverish infant, debating the cost of going to the emergency room.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother visits her comatose son to celebrate his birthday, while her daughter is deeply frustrated with her mother's "denial."
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A divorce lawyer is deeply disturbed when his own client wins.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A college student working a summer job shares a break with a woman whose burdens seem unimaginable to her.
- Added: Jun 03, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A mother explains that they had to move because they're out of work. The child understands only that his friend's house is nicer.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
A suburban couple plan to go out for the evening, but every option is fraught with danger -- they stay home behind locked doors.
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
Two parents, disciplining a teenage daugher, present a unified front -- of utter confusion.
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- Added: May 31, 2004
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A son disappoints his dad by deciding to forego college to learn a trade, even though he's clearly "college material."
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:38
A woman tries to tell her uncomprehending doctor that she doesn't have her family medical history because, as an adoptee, she's legally denied acce...
- Added: May 31, 2004
- Length: 01:37
