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An Interview with Author David “Letterman” Knoderer
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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Why does a young man abandon everything to head out on the highway? Where will it take him? Using the road metaphor, the author reveals the discove...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2023
  • Length: 10:15
The Challenge
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Student activists in York, Pennsylvania organized a silent protest when hundreds of books were banned from their classrooms, paving the way for las...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 28:10
Beloved Blues
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....

  • Added: Nov 30, 2023
  • Length: 23:18
Let's Hear from Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown reads and discusses his work, his creative process, and Black queer poetry’s capacity to expand concepts of love

Bought by WMPG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM and more


  • Added: Jun 13, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
The Untold Story of Kenneth Watson and the 12 Faces of Sober
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU and KVSC alumni Kenneth Watson. Watso...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
EE 23-09: Writing a novel is easy as pie (if only pie were easy), 2/24/2023
From: WFIU
Series: Earth Eats
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The creators of How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies talk with Earth Eats about their book.

  • Added: Feb 23, 2023
  • Length: 54:02
In the Beginning
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Tony Kushner
Pulitzer Prize winners Tony Kushner, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, as well as Sherman Alexie, Naomi Shihab Nye, and the late August Wilson share some...

Bought by WDCB and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Saluting Zora Neale Hurston and her biographer the late Valerie Boyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Valerie Boyd, Credit: Courtesy: Valerie Boyd
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
At the Fishhouses: A Holiday Episode
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to World Ocean Radio listeners. In this episode, host Peter Neill reads "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 t...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2021
  • Length: 04:40
Minnesota's New Poet Laureate: Gwen Westerman
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Gwen Westerman is a writer, poet and artist. She teaches literature and writing at Minnesota State University Mankato. And she’s a member of the Si...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:28
The Big Ponder #20: Adventure
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: The Big Ponder – A Transatlantic Podcast
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Have you ever thought about dropping everything to pursue your passion? Susanne Papawassiliu profiles Mike Powers who left his life in Florida behi...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 30, 2021
  • Length: 28:48
  • Purchases: 1
Missouri Poets Laureate
From: New Letters on the Air
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Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from current and past Missouri Poets Laureate: Walter Bargen, th...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Aug 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
581: Reading While Young / 582: Up All Night, 5/1/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Reading While Young" - Having trouble reading? Maybe the answer is a younger read. We'll celebrate the new season of our "Bookmarks" mic...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:01
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
2112: Avengers: A Conversation with Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely, 3/25/2021
From: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
Series: Austin Film Festival's On Story®
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On this week’s On Story we’ll hear from Avengers: Infinity War and End Game writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The two will discuss th...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 53:58
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Speak the Speech, Credit: Kate Saylor
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside medit...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgathering Day
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music reflecting on the Thanksgiving holiday.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
International Latino Book Award-winning Poet Xánath Caraza: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with Xanath Caraza, a multi-International Latino Book Award winner. In part one of this interview, she t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Mistakes: Writing Wrongs
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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If you’ve ever tried to work creatively, this one is for you – in this episode of the FEHLER podcast, our producer Bilal Qureshi sits down with fou...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Sep 10, 2020
  • Length: 25:09
  • Purchases: 1
That's It!
From: New Letters on the Air
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THAT'S IT!--A special program looking back on the career of longtime NEW LETTERS editor Robert Stewart. In this public reading, Albert Goldbarth, J...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
The Write Question - Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone - 424
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In this interview Traute Parrie, Mary Manning, and Aaron Teasedale discuss "Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the Absaroka-Bea...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Laura Munson - 442
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Best-selling author Laura Munson discusses her novel, Willa's Grove. She also reads short passages.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WSGE, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6