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Join us for In-Studio, when our team gets together in the studios of KQED in San Francisco to talk about our recent episodes, the law in the news a...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2017
  • Length: 46:32
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: Fady Joudah, poet, Credit: Cybele Knowles
Fady Joudah describes a car ride through a national park and observes wildlife, both living and dead.

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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In this episode, we speak to people with experience with both homelessness and incarceration. Often, there is a cyclical relationship between these...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2017
  • Length: 29:50
Caption: Tyrone Williams, poet
Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.

Bought by KENW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Quraysh Ali Lansana, poet, Credit: Alan Tarin
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Kaveh Akbar, poet, Credit: Paige Lewis
Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol.

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
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
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Judge Michael John Ryan talks with his son, Michael Benjamin Ryan, about growing up in an abusive household, and how he found the strength to gradu...

Bought by Public Radio for All, WEZU, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 02:20
  • Purchases: 3
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Our focus for this episode returns to the impact of incarceration on families. First we have a discussion between our friend Lucy and one of her fe...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2017
  • Length: 28:10
Caption: Philip Jenks, poet
Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Added: Dec 19, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Hartmut Lau and Barbara Lau
A decorated veteran who served 24 years in the U.S. Army talks with his wife for the first time about his experiences during the Vietnam War.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2016
  • Length: 02:40
Caption: Jenn Stanley (left) and Peter Stanley (right)
A conservative father and his self-described liberal daughter try to put their political differences aside and listen to each other’s points of view.

Bought by Public Radio for All and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Dara Wier, poet, Credit: Julia Johnson
Dara Wier meditates on the mind’s need for security and sanctuary from a troubled world.

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  • Added: Nov 07, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Jasmine Pacheco (left) and Carmen Pacheco-Jones (right)
A mother talks to her daughter about what it was like to reconnect with her children after her years of drug and alcohol abuse tore their family ap...

Bought by West Virginia Public Broadcasting and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Oct 31, 2016
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 2
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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: 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