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Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCNY, Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Reading and Writing Ourselves (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WTJU, WMUU-LP, KEDT, WNED Buffalo and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 9
Reading and Writing Ourselves (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by KYUK, WMMT, Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WJCU and more


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 12
Reading and Writing Ourselves (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2017, many Americans watched in horror as violent images from the Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville started spreading.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Sep 02, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
'Funeral Diva' poet Pamela Sneed: "We can heal"
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNJR


  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Celebrate Juneteenth with novelist Kaitlyn Greenidge
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kaitlyn Greenidge, Credit: Syreeta McFadden
A Conversation with Kaitlyn Greenidge whose historical novel Libertie explores the possibilities and limitations for 19th century Black women.

Bought by WMPG and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Jun 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Meet 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Jericho Brown
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jericho Brown, Credit: Brian Cornelius
Jericho Brown talks about writing his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection The Tradition

Bought by WMPG


  • Added: Jun 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:38
  • Purchases: 1
Meet poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Credit: Emma Pratte
Poet and playwright Darrel Alejandro Holnes explores immigration and belonging through poetry and theater.

Bought by WORT, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: May 03, 2021
  • Length: 28:42
  • Purchases: 3
Meet environmental poet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Award-winning writer and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T. Dungy discusses her work as an ecopoet.

Bought by WSLR, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Hanif Abdurraquib
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet and culture critic Hanif Abdurraquib discusses his new book, "A Little Devil in America: Notes in Praise of Black Performance."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, Spokane Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

Bought by KHEN-LP, KEDT, WCNY, Ohm Radio , Royalton Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 7
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

Bought by WXDU, Kansas Public Radio, WJCU, WJCT, KRDP and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 9
Furious Flower: A Celebration of the Greats of African American Poetry (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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In 2019, the most notable poets of our time gathered in the nation’s capital to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Furious Flower Poetry Center,...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNED Buffalo, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 08, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
Black Women Writers in History
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues as we go to the archives to revisit Black Women Writers in History, a program that examines important African-Ameri...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, High Plains Public Radio, WRKF, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 28
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Past American Voice of Playwright August Wilson
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The National Endowment for the Arts presents writer Danielle Evans
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Danielle Evans , Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Author Danielle Evans discusses her recent short-story collection "The Office of Historical Corrections."

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2021
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

Bought by KWMR and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
Former poet laureate of the United States Tracy K. Smith in wide-ranging conversation about poetry, history, and memory.

Bought by WMPG and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 12, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Top of Mind - Anti-Racism for Young People, Patenting a Wildflower
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Top of Mind with Julie Rose
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Topic 1 and 2 - Acclaimed Book About Race in America “Remixed” for Young People, Topic 3 - Plant Hunter Looking to Patent a Newly-Discovered Wildfl...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida and KOWS


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 51:42
  • Purchases: 2
Music That Mends (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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David Coogan is the editor of “Writing Our Way Out” written by former jail inmates, exploring the conditions, traps and turning points on their pat...

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and WNED Buffalo


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
Music That Mends (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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David Coogan is the editor of “Writing Our Way Out” written by former jail inmates, exploring the conditions, traps and turning points on their pat...

Bought by Ohm Radio , WTJU, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KEDT, WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 10
Music That Mends (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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David Coogan is the editor of “Writing Our Way Out” written by former jail inmates, exploring the conditions, traps and turning points on their pat...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WJCT, KMUN, and KHNS


  • Added: Dec 24, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5