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Funny how a crow caws and a roster crows. What’s this have to do with anything? Likely, nothing. Or mayhap it does. Join Tenaciously Tender tenali ...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2015
  • Length: 01:56:03
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Summer is here again. . . Let’s celebrate the commencement of the hot and sweaty season with a batch of lovely sun soaked tunes. Join Winding River...

  • Added: Jun 17, 2015
  • Length: 01:49:41
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The Art and Entertainment News That You Want To Know!!! Featuring the New Zealand band Ivy Blue, Author Martin Lastrapes, and Night Fall by New Yo...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 57:31
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Margaret Hasse is a Twin Cities consultant, working primarily in the arts and art education. She's published four books of poetry and has received ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:20
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Raw, young and heartfelt Brooklyn, NY up and coming act along with Big Top Chautauqua's Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KPIP-LP, KMSU, KALH, KPIP-LP, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Jun 08, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 10
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The Point Reyes Light, a weekly newspaper in West Marin, is known for a lot of things. It won a Pulitzer Prize, it’s done muckraking reporting on a...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Jun 05, 2015
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 1
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A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: May 26, 2015
  • Length: 05:55
  • Purchases: 5
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 1
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In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 16:05
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Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...

  • Added: Mar 09, 2015
  • Length: 12:51
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Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:06
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We hope you've never been in a store like this one! Chuckle with author Amanda Filipacchi, who writes with deceptive ease and here reads from her w...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:38
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:25
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All programs produced during spring semester, 2014.

  • Added: Dec 23, 2014
  • Length: 02:35:12
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Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Nov 27, 2014
  • Length: 14:11
  • Purchases: 1
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Ever wondered what the *tattoos* covering that woman's arm mean? Author Isaac Fitzgerald reads from his new book, Pen & Ink: Tattoos and The Storie...

  • Added: Nov 17, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
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Mike Finley recites a poem by Rich Broderick. Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
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Danny Klecko runs a bakery in Saint Paul. Many of his poems are written while he bakes for capitol city. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minn...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2014
  • Length: 18:38