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Talkin' Trash
From: melodically challenged
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According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
MN Reads: "Gunflint Falling" by Cary J. Griffith
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Cary J. Griffith talks about his new book "Gunflint Falling: Blowdown in the Boundary Waters"

  • Added: Feb 01, 2024
  • Length: 10:13
The Write Question - Josh Slotnick, Part One
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poet, farmer, and Missoula, Montana, county commissioner Josh Slotnick discusses his second collection of poetry, "If Only." This is part one of a ...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
MN Reads: "Impermanence" by Sue Leaf
From: WDSE
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Author Sue Leaf talks about her new book "Impermanence"

  • Added: Jan 18, 2024
  • Length: 08:20
An End-of-Year Reading of "At the Fishhouses"
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem, a perennial favorite, was chosen n...

  • Added: Dec 27, 2023
  • Length: 04:40
The Write Question - Emily Riddle
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Nehiyaw (Cree) poet Emily Riddle discusses her award-winning debut poetry collection, "The Big Melt."

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
857: Cultivating Wonder / 858: The World Is A Laboratory, 12/23/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Cultivating Wonder" - Maybe there’s something missing in your life you can’t quite explain. It might be that you need to re-discover you...

  • Added: Dec 22, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
MN Reads: "Northern Sights" by Tove Conway
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tove Conway talks about her new book "Northern Sights"

  • Added: Dec 21, 2023
  • Length: 07:26
Christmas at Sea
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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This holiday season on World Ocean Radio we return with a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson writte...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:03
08-18: Erosion and Evolution: Our Undoing is Our Becoming, 12/27/2023
From: Bioneers
Series: Bioneers - Revolution From the Heart of Nature
Caption: Terry Tempest Williams
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry ...

  • Added: Dec 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
John Nichols: Writing the Southwest
From: David Dunaway
Caption: John Nichols, Credit: Taos Writers' Conference
The writer John Nichols first achieved national fame at age 24 with 'The Sterile Cuckoo', but went on to a second act when he moved to Taos, New Me...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2023
  • Length: 27:14
MN Reads: "A Wild Path" by Douglas Wood
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Douglas Wood talks about his latest work "A Wild Path"

  • Added: Dec 07, 2023
  • Length: 09:04
The Write Question - Navied Mahdavian
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Cartoonist Navied Mahdavian discusses his graphic memoir, "This Country: Searching for Home in (Very) Rural America."

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
849: Shapeshifting / 850: Reading While Young, 11/25/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Shapeshifting" - Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
Dissonant Landscapes: Music of Iceland
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "Dissonant Landscapes," which explores how Icelandic musicians are often discussed in relationship to the...

  • Added: Nov 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:30
845: Whose Land Is It? / 846: Writing The Climate Change Story, 11/11/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Whose Land Is It?" - Owning land is a big part of the American dream. But there’s a problem with that: That land is often stolen. So who...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:01
Constant Wonder - Book of Delights
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Poet Ross Gay on the small, sweet delights of life's daily walk with no fireworks or fanfare.

Bought by WLRH and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 52:54
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Maya Jewell Zeller
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Spokane, Washington-based poet Maya Jewell Zeller discusses "out takes/ glove box," her New American Poetry Prize-winning collection.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 02, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
A New Kind of Hero's Journey, Dream-Inspired Creativity with Author Donna Glee Williams
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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We all know that dreams can galvanize your creativity. Today we meet an author who has published three dream-inspired fantasy novels which seek to ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2023
  • Length: 53:20
The Write Question - Robin Wall Kimmerer
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Robin Wall Kimmerer reflects on the ten years that her best-selling book of essays, "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge a...

Bought by WFHB, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
MN Reads "Clouded Waters" by Dianna Hunter
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Dianna Hunter talks about her first novel "Clouded Waters"

  • Added: Oct 05, 2023
  • Length: 10:03
829: Rethinking David Foster Wallace / 830: When Mountains Are Gods, 9/16/2023
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "Rethinking David Foster Wallace" - David Foster Wallace was one of the most brilliant writers of his generation. But 15 years after his ...

  • Added: Sep 15, 2023
  • Length: 01:59:00
2023-09-01 Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One
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Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

Bought by Maine Public Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WMUU-LP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WVTF and more


  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 13
230901: Fairytales and Fear: Stories Of Our Future , 9/1/2023
From: Climate One
Series: Climate One- Weekly Feed
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Stories are the way we remember, the way we share knowledge, the way we play out possible outcomes. Climate fiction imagines dark or bright futures...

  • Added: Aug 31, 2023
  • Length: 58:58