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Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...
- Added: Nov 08, 2023
- Length: 19:25
Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...
- Added: Mar 07, 2022
- Length: 14:21
Reading as discussed with Former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, Prof. Dr. Susan Newman and Clay Sherod. Recorded on July 2, 2002.
- Added: Mar 29, 2021
- Length: 24:52
Claire Compton, Taylor White, and Nicole Gomez from the Free Verse Project: Voices from Montana's Juvenile Detention Centers speak about their work.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 06, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
While bilingual schools for spoken languages are becoming more popular in America, fewer children are attending bilingual schools for signed langua...
- Added: Mar 28, 2019
- Length: 14:18
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
An English teacher at Martin Middle School shares her stories of breaking the rules and finding her inspiration.
- Added: May 30, 2018
- Length: 02:40
Journalist and writer Sam Quiñones wrote a book titled, Dreamland:The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic, which details how this epidemic spre...
- Added: Aug 04, 2016
- Length: 14:00
Congressman Brad Ashford reads from Rainbow Rowell's unlikely romance "Eleanor & Park". Kids from the Book Worm Girls book club discuss the book.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 21:03
Love Harry Potter? You'll love the tale of a different sort of wizard school.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 20:19
What IS the Book Club for Kids podcast? Host Kitty Felde explains.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 05:05
Students from DC's Jefferson Academy middle school discuss this modern classic gothic romance with host Kitty Felde.
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 20:03
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Berryman's Hands." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...
- Added: Sep 09, 2013
- Length: 02:03
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: May 13, 2013
- Length: 03:06
- Purchases: 2
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Dec 05, 2012
- Length: 56:10
The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...
Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:49
- Purchases: 5
Poet Slayton Goodman, 17, is a junior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing his hi...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:23
Liberal arts colleges are known for their small class sizes, individual attention, and atmosphere meant to inspire intellectual curiosity in its st...
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 08:46
Ask people why they write and you'll hear many reasons. Here are some I hadn't expected.
- Added: Feb 03, 2010
- Length: 03:00
- Added: Jan 28, 2010
- Length: 10:22
Rafe Esquith says America's public education system has failed kids, and that is why he can't. He teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at one of th...
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 54:00
There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:26
Interviews and orations by the New York City poetry scene's newest and youngest voices.
Bought by KRUA
- Added: Mar 15, 2006
- Length: 03:11
- Purchases: 1
