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"I see Trees Standing in Deep Water" From The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Environmental Whistleblower with Kyla Bennett
From: Doug Wood
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PEER's Kyla Bennet talks about her whistleblowing experience at EPA and how it changed her life.

  • Added: Aug 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:23
Sonnet for Looking for China
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook
From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :59
Meltdown! with Eric Epstein
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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How a stuck valve almost destroyed the State of Pennsylvania

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  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 1
Love Really Counts: Greta Thunberg's Plea for Climate Change Action
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Maybe sometime in the night when the wind blows..., Credit: Susan Cook
Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:17
In the Department of Poetic Justice: You Don't Know This But Your Civil Rights Are Violated
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:43
Killing The Red Pines in Charlotte: The Private Time Line of Environmental Contamination
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
The Two and 1/2 Minute Conspiracy Theory: The Best Conspiracies Are Those In Which Co-conspirators Didn't Sign Up, Weren't Asked, Don't Know They're Part of It
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry:In the First Place, Why Would A Corporation Let a Veteran Legislator/Franchiser have Huge Debt?
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: I'll Scratch Your Back Later..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:15
Credibility in African-American Blues Musician: Who's Believed, Who is Not
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: I'd have Sonny Boy Williamson testify and sing 'Bye Bye Bird', Credit: youtube.com/watch?v=YSdwhnsV4Go
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:34
Sonnet for the US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neither Forcefed for Foie-Gras Production Nor Plucked of Their Feathers and Down During Their Lifetime
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
In the Department of Poetic Justice (The song and dance genre): All I Want Is My Debt Deferred
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Contaminating Maine for Corporate Favors, Credit: Susan Cook
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
Sonnet for the First Fish, Best Fish
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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Sonnets are a way to find optimism in difficult times. This is a sonnet that acknowledges that the first fish is the best fish and can provide f...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2013
  • Length: :51
  • Purchases: 2
Getting the News
From: The humble Farmer
Caption: Morning Rolled Oats, Credit: Janice Lang
With the demise of stores, post offices and garages, where do rural people now congregate to exchange the news?

  • Added: Jan 17, 2009
  • Length: 01:47