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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Waters (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, Ohm Radio , and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Waters (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

Bought by WTJU, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 12
The Waters (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 8
The Waters (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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We have a lot to do with what happens to rainwater from the time it hits the ground, to the time we drink it. And our small efforts can add up over...

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


  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 3
2021-02-19 Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMUU-LP, KSQD Santa Cruz, KGUA, Ohm Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 11
210219: Climate Narratives with Elizabeth Kolbert and Kim Stanley Robinson, 2/19/2021
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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In the past decade, narratives of a dystopian climate future have helped connect people with heroes in worlds decimated by climate disruption and i...

  • Added: Feb 18, 2021
  • Length: 58:58
At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside medit...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Human Planet
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This week on World Ocean Radio we review a new book by photographer George Steinmetz with essays by Andrew Revkin. "The Human Planet: Earth at the ...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 04:34
200515: Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis, 5/15/2020
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
2020-05-15 Storytelling Through the Climate Crisis
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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How do we confront the reality of a future that will be hauntingly different from today? Some authors are using fiction to create relatable narrati...

Bought by WUTC, WJCT, KICI Iowa City, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WMUU-LP and more


  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 8
Poet Staceyann Chin, poet, griot
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Stacyann Chin about her long awaited anthology, Crossfire, and her relationship to a cannon d...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
Primal Surprise
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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Let’s go rambling with Ambrose Bierce on this new episode of Desert Oracle Radio. We shall get a few travel tips, too, in case we want to stop off ...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone - 424
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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In this interview Traute Parrie, Mary Manning, and Aaron Teasedale discuss "Voices of Yellowstone's Capstone: A Narrative Atlas of the Absaroka-Bea...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Jeremy Pataky - 418
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Alaskan poet, editor, and publisher Jeremy Pataky shares work from his debut collection of poetry, Overwinter, as well as new work.

Bought by KTOO, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Raven Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 6
At the Fishhouses: 2019
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Each year during the holidays, longtime World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses", a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. This is a perenni...

  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 04:38
'Dark Sky Memories' from Grand Portage
From: WTIP
Series: Arts and Culture
Caption: Northern Lights in Cook County, Credit: Travis Novitsky
Shelley McIntire is a longtime resident of Cook County and a member of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. She describes herself as ...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2019
  • Length: 09:56
191213: Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells, 12/13/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
2019-12-13 Rewind: Jonathan Safran Foer and David Wallace-Wells
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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A look back at conversations with two writers confronting the climate challenge in 2019. In "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming," David-Wa...

Bought by WJCT, MPR News Stations, WMUU-LP, KUNM, WFHB and more


  • Added: Dec 12, 2019
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 10
National Writers Series: Garth Stein
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Two
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Author Garth Stein talks with Sarah Bearup-Neal.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
191004: Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather, 10/4/2019
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
19-10-04 Jonathan Safran Foer: We Are the Weather
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Is clinging to habits and cravings destroying our future? An outspoken critic of factory farming and animal-centric diets, Jonathan Safran Foer wri...

Bought by WJCT, WFHB, WMUU-LP, KBBI Alaska, KSQD Santa Cruz and more


  • Added: Oct 03, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 7
'Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...

  • Added: Sep 11, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Dispatch #306 - Gun Island
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
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Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.

  • Added: Sep 10, 2019
  • Length: 06:00
California Poet Laureate Dana Gioia
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Photo by Star Black released into the Public Domain
We continue our series on State Poets Laureate with the most recent California State Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia. In this archive interview, the Cali...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00