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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Arrangement In Gray and Black." The Beat is a daily reminder that...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 01:48
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman. In this essay A...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 02:58
- Purchases: 2
Excerpts from the oral histories collected by the Santa Fe Living Treasures' committee as part of its work honoring community elders.
- Added: Oct 01, 2012
- Length: 27:43
Audrey Helbling is a Faribault writer whose poems have been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, Poetic Strokes, and on roadside bil...
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Under Ernie’s Free Tree neighbors and passersby pick from the free pile, the last of Ernie Winger’s possessions—recycling, laughing, crying, rememb...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2012
- Length: 02:59
- Purchases: 1
Phil Donney talks with his aunt Abby Leibman about raising Phil and his sister, Laura, after their mother was murdered.
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 02:11
- Purchases: 3
René Foreman, who survived cancer of the esophagus, tells her daughter Michelle about speaking through an electrolarynx.
Bought by WEZU
- Added: Mar 12, 2012
- Length: 02:15
- Purchases: 1
In the latest installment of The Taxi Tapes, Sam recalls the unexpected consequences of a voyage to the strange environs of Avenue Z in Brooklyn, w...
- Added: Feb 22, 2012
- Length: 15:07
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 03:27
A newly married guy finds out his wife is pregnant while he’s at sea and just a few years later, to his surprise, becomes a stay-at-home dad.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 28, 2011
- Length: 25:01
- Purchases: 1
Song, poetry, and prose for our moms on Mother's Day.
- Added: Apr 26, 2011
- Length: 47:59
A mother unexpectedly breaks down and apologizes to her 34-year-old daughter for not being able to breastfeed her.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Apr 12, 2011
- Length: 14:24
- Purchases: 1
A mom who finds breastfeeding stressful discovers that a machine helps her feel closer to her son.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 08, 2011
- Length: 11:53
- Purchases: 1
A woman leaves her dream job to stay home with her baby, and then, out of boredom, starts sewing and unwittingly creates a new full-time job for he...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 02, 2011
- Length: 14:16
- Purchases: 1
A newborn turns blue, is rushed to the NICU, and his parents deal with going home while the baby remains in the hospital, hooked up to machines.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jan 25, 2011
- Length: 10:36
- Purchases: 1
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
Kristy is about to have her first child. She is nervous and excited, and wants to be the perfect parent.
- Added: Nov 08, 2010
- Length: 04:11
- Purchases: 2
A local sewing group is making a difference for women who are forced to start over...
- Added: Oct 18, 2010
- Length: 05:11
A brief reflection, upon the death of my grandmother, on the ways that food and death are inextricably linked in Southern culture.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: May 14, 2010
- Length: 04:20
- Purchases: 1
Our relationship with Mom this week on The Score with Edmund Stone.
- Added: May 05, 2010
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 2
We all have Mothers who like to call and chat, but sometimes you just have to let the answering machine take care of her.
- Added: Apr 19, 2010
- Length: 02:50
How the passage of time touches every life
- Added: Nov 17, 2009
- Length: 03:59
Preparing for a major moment in unusual circumstances.
- Added: Jun 22, 2009
- Length: 06:19
I did a music profile piece on my uncle and gave background information on his life and where his music comes from. I talked about why i like his m...
- Added: Jun 09, 2009
- Length: 05:03
Acclaimed writer Amy Tan believes in ghosts and the messages of joy, love and peace they bring her.
Bought by KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WEZU, KUER, KFOK-LPFM, WEZU and more
- Added: May 13, 2009
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 7
