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5th graders from DC's Watkins Elementary discuss - and sing about - Kwame Alexander's poetic story of brothers and basketball "The Crossover." LA L...
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 22:44
In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, th...
Bought by WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We remember the Nobel Prize-winning South African writer Nadine Gordimer, who passed away on July 13, 2014. In this 1994 interview with former NEW ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 09:21
- Purchases: 3
Judith Tannenbaum taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Cor...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 18:09
- Purchases: 1
For D.C. youths who get caught up in the adult system, prison isn’t just an experience, it’s a journey. Because it’s not a full-fledged state, the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:24
- Purchases: 1
Features a conversation with August Wilson scholar Jeannie Zeck about Wilson’s plays and the many influences on his work; the show also features pe...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 29:03
Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...
Bought by Room Tone Selects, KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:55
- Purchases: 5
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
Two men more or less allow themselves to become homeless in order to dedicate their time to writing poetry
Bought by Marfa Public Radio and Remix Radio
- Added: Sep 21, 2008
- Length: 29:09
- Purchases: 2
Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 44:47
- Purchases: 19
Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson Family of Flint, Michigan.
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 04, 2005
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
