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Caption: Black Sheep Poetry
On this episode of The Live Feed, we visit with Ben Strand, the founder of Black Sheep Poetry. Ben writes slam poetry and hosts an open mic session...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Jul 07, 2017
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Made up of three sisters, Natalie Closner Schepman and Allison and Meegan Closner, the Portland, Oregon based band Jospeh has gathered momentum qu...

  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: :45
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Made up of three sisters, Natalie Closner Schepman and Allison and Meegan Closner, the Portland, Oregon based band Jospeh has gathered momentum qu...

Bought by KGLT and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 16, 2017
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Sean and Sam Hurley on Welch Mountain., Credit: Sean Hurley
This is a parenting story and a story about time. I've been hiking with my son Sam since he was born. In this story, I contrast recordings I made...

  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: Fred Davie (left) and Robert Sanchez (right)
A social worker who now helps others who are making the transition from prison talks with his mentor about their first meeting inside Sing Sing pri...

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


  • Added: Dec 05, 2016
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Poetry & Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Impressions of the onset of winter and snow, with music by Frederic Chopin.

  • Added: Dec 03, 2016
  • Length: 56:51
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Host Joan Kjaer interviews Howard Kerr, 2016 recipient of the University of Iowa International Impact Award, about his national and international c...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 25:03
Caption: Saboor Sahely and Jessica Sahely
The owner of a Logan, Utah, restaurant tells his daughter about lessons he learned growing up in Afghanistan, and how they inspire him today.

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


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 02:05
  • Purchases: 4
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A mother tells her daughter about growing up in California in the late 1960s, and the lesson learned after her mother gave her beloved bed away.

Bought by KZYX, WGUC/ WVXU, WEZU, and KRZA


  • Added: Nov 29, 2016
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Vaughn Allex and Denise Allex
A former airline employee discusses the aftereffects of knowing he checked two 9/11 hijackers onto the plane that was flown into the Pentagon.

Bought by WVBI-LP


  • Added: Sep 15, 2016
  • Length: 02:43
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Carlos Walton (left) and Jim Saint Germain (right)
Jim Saint Germain and his former middle school dean discuss pivotal moments in their relationship and lessons Jim learned from his mentor.

Bought by WMUU-LP, WEZU, and WRIR


  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 02:45
  • Purchases: 3
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Haneen Ah-Mare is a poet whose family came to New Mexico from Iraq in 2008 when she was 11. Haneen will be sharing her poem, To the Sun, which she ...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 25, 2016
  • Length: 09:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the natural world, in her...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2015
  • Length: :52
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Alex Stolis has been a janitor, a counselor, a waiter, a bartender, a housekeeper, a salesman, a cook, a criminal, and has been, and a never was. T...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:02
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Zena, from Oakland, is a singer songwriter, visual artist, storyteller – and one of the few women masters of the kora – a West African harp – taugh...

  • Added: Sep 18, 2015
  • Length: 06:21
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Radio Curious discusses racial discrimination and cultural gender norms with Josanna Kiggins, a young black woman living in the small, predominantl...

  • Added: Mar 17, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
Caption: Claudette Colvin.
What makes a hero? Why do we remember some stories and not others? Consider Claudette Colvin. She was a 15-year-old girl in the segregated city of...

Bought by KUNM, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA, PRX Remix, and Troy Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 05, 2015
  • Length: 09:19
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: RadioActive's Kamna Shastri and her cousin Ananya Shankar in Seattle, Credit: Jenny Asarnow
A 13-year-old girl in Chennai, India, had always wanted to visit the United States. But when she does, her idealized view of America is tested by t...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 05:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 18, 2014
  • Length: 01:37
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Roger Alvarez (L) and his former teacher Antero Garcia (R).
Antero Garcia (R) talks to his former student Roger Alvarez (L) who dropped out...

Bought by WEZU, KERA, KMUD, and WTJU


  • Added: Jul 25, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 4
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The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 23, 2014
  • Length: 27:46
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: AIDS Skeletons, Credit: Bob Smith
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 08:22
Caption: Curtis Billie from N'MPower
N’MPower participant and Program Manager, Curtis Billie, interviews Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez, a potter from the San Ildefonso Pueblo, in a community ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 06:32
Caption: Diana Moya Lujan's piece at the Museum of International Folk Art
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Sharon Wirtz, left, talks to Marquell Hicks, right, in front of a panel from the NM AIDS Memorial Quilt, Credit: Katy Gross
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2014
  • Length: 10:00