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Caption: Shane McCrae, poet
Shane McCrae imagines the life of the adopted son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Philip Jenks, poet
Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

Bought by KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 24, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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: Roberto Tejada, poet, Credit: Hillsman Jackson
Roberto Tejada guides through an underworld of surveillance.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Feb 13, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Eric Amling. poet
Eric Amling remembers the death of a beloved celebrity and considers a world saturated in pharmaceuticals.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: Feb 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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: Garrett Caples, Credit: Suzanne Kleid
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jan 23, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Joshua Clover, poet, Credit: C. Dingler
For the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Joshua Clover offers to read poetry at the White House.

Bought by KENW, KHSU, KRZA, KMUD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
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: John Yau, poet, Credit: Eve Aschheim
John Yau meditates on mortality and the remembrance of the dead.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Patricia Spears Jones, poet, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 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
Caption: Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, poet
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.

Bought by KALW, WOUB, and KENW


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Sep 28, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Kelly Hutchinson
Two short plays by the master of the form, David Ives (Venus In Fur, All in the Timing). In David Ives’ ITS ALL GOOD, a Chicago native visits his h...

Bought by WHRV, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Oct 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 4
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With nearly a decade between his first short story collection, DROWN and his Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Jun...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 22, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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We begin National Poetry Month by remembering the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Philip Levine, who died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 87 at his...

Bought by KFCF FM and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Jonathan Ashely is a novelist living in Kentucky.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 17:29
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Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and th...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jun 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Trooper Henry Dixon
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: 06:49
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
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Jerry Stahl is a novelist, essayist, and screenwriter living in Los Angeles.

  • Added: Jul 12, 2010
  • Length: 31:22
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Tommy Chong interviews about his new book the I Chong: Meditations from the Joint on NORML's weekday Podcast. The book was written during Tommy's ...

  • Added: Sep 03, 2006
  • Length: 13:11