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Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
Drawing History (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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-Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Ame...

Bought by WJCT, WSGE, Harford Community Radio, Kansas Public Radio, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 10
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by Georgia Public Broadcasting and WNSB


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, WUGA (part of GPB), Georgia Public Broadcasting, WNSB, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
BHM Special: Natasha Trethewey on Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: Black History Month specials
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WNSB, KRZA, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 3
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Pulitzer100: Natasha Tretheway On Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
PPW 23: The Poets of Cooper Street Correctional Facility
From: Narrative Arts
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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
PPW 22: Living in the D.: Shaun Moore-Bey
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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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.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 21: Prison Creative Arts Project
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Prison Creative Arts Project
The Prison Creative Art Project (PCAP) brings together artist from inside and outside the prison walls of Michigan to create a vibrant arts communi...

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 19: Patrick Mathieu
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Patrick Mathieu
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
PPW 18: Workshop with Judith Tannenbaum
From: Narrative Arts
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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
PPW 11: Broadside Press
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Broadside Press
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
PPW 13: Workshop with Buzz Alexander
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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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
PPW 10: New Orleans
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Join the Prison Poetry Workshop as we travel to New Orleans and join a group of prison poets who are taking on Walt Whitman.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 05: Patrick Young Story
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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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
PPW - Alabama: Black Birds Singing
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
Caption: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project , Credit: The Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project
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
Affrilachian Poets
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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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...

Bought by WJCT, WMMT, KUER, KRZA, XRAY.fm and more


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 9
A Conversation with Kevin Young
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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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