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Alan Pelaez Lopez shares their forthcoming work, Intergalactic Travels: poems from a fugitive alien. They also read several pieces.
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Oct 03, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We continue our month-long series that features current State Poets Laureate with Alberto Ríos, named Arizona's inaugural Poet Laureate in 2013. In...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Joaquín Zihuatanejo discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas. He also talks about his early life growing up without his father ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In the end, we wrap up our series at the beginning. Host Marcos Nájera reports on what he’s learned about Oscar Zeta Acosta. And the contributions ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 17:24
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 16:59
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Juan Delgado describes a dangerous journey by a series of freight trains that migrants from Central America use to reach the U.S. border.
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 2
Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 21:34
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.
Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 7
In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
An exploration of Brazil's diverse culture, complex past, artistic traditions, and modern aspirations.
- Added: Oct 18, 2014
- Length: 29:02
Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:31
Known for his book THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and his American Book Award-winning memoir, NOBODY'S SON, Luis Al...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: May 10, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Fiction writer Lorraine Lopez was a 2010 finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award, with her collection HOMICIDE SURVIVORS PICNIC AND OTHER STORIES. She...
- Added: Jan 12, 2012
- Length: 29:00
He went from illiterate street kid, to world renowned poet. But it was in prison that Jimmy Santiago Baca connected with his Native American and C...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Nov 09, 2011
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Alberto Rios, who grew up in a mixed family on the Arizona-Mexico border, recounts his experiences living between languages and cultures in his mem...
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 28:56
Explores issues of national and cultural identity central to Puerto Rican literature
Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New England Public Media, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHNS and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2008
- Length: 29:45
- Purchases: 7
- Added: Oct 30, 2005
- Length: 05:38
- Purchases: 4
