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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...
- Added: Apr 09, 2012
- Length: 28:57
- Purchases: 9
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 28:17
- Purchases: 1
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
Author Grif Stockley on a special edition of Tales from the South, where Southern writers bring their own true stories to life in front of a live a...
- Added: Jul 05, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Nigerian-American writer Teju Cole is our idea of a post-imperial global mind in motion. His celebrated first novel, "Open City," is about a solita...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: May 20, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This show features the work of younger poets whose first books were published as a result of winning the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, including Natasha...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 29:00
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.
- Added: Jul 13, 2009
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 3
The inner secrets of a comma, a writer, a teacher.
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:24
Dreams wrapped in curious packages
- Added: Nov 12, 2008
- Length: 03:34
Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...
- Added: Apr 06, 2005
- Length: 29:51
- Purchases: 2
