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The final episode of this series. Spoon and Matthew perform an excerpt from a play by Spoon. Spoon and his brother Abe talk about their dad, Matthe...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
Spoon talks about his love for Star Trek and the day his TV was taken from him. Matthew visits a Star Trek fan club.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 12:41
- Purchases: 2
Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 11:25
Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 06:21
- Purchases: 2
Poet Cara Benson leads a powerful writing workshop at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Saratoga County, New York. We listen in as a group ...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 21:03
- Purchases: 2
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 09:00
- Purchases: 1
Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...
- Added: Feb 11, 2014
- Length: 07:27
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 13:42
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us.
Prison Poetry Workshop ha...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:00
- 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
We visited with youth at the Alabama Department of Youth Service in Mount Meigs, AL and met graduates of their program who have continued to write.
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 07:36
Our time with Free Minds Book Club and Writing Workshop was powerful! D.C. youth who are shipped into the Federal prison system had little contact ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 19:20
- Purchases: 1
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
We met dozens of poets behind bars in our nation's prisons and we sat with formerly incarcerated people like Native New Orleanian, Patrick Young, w...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:16
- Purchases: 1
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 10:26
- Purchases: 1
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
We take to the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana to ask folks about their connection to the criminal justice system. In the state of Louisiana, ...
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 50:03
- Purchases: 2
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
A poet famous for writing about the civil rights movement and for epitomizing black arts movement feminism, Sonia Sanchez passed through Attica’s g...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:52
- Purchases: 1
Michigan has always been home to a number of bustling American enterprises, including the prison industry. Each year, the state's correctional faci...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:27
- Purchases: 2
