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Pulitzer prize-winning poet Rita Dove.
- Added: May 28, 2024
- Length: 24:10
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...
- Added: Aug 25, 2016
- Length: 27:08
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...
- Added: Aug 18, 2016
- Length: 25:45
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 26:15
Lester Blackiston was a pirate . . .
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 24:46
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 26:09
A look at that DIY mainstay, known as the zine, through the lens of a long-running publication called Factsheet Five.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 02, 2013
- Length: 07:18
- Purchases: 1
Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 05:30
As a maintenance man at The Waynflete School and a working writer, Michael Macklin?s world is filled with sawdust, kids, and poetry.
Bought by HowSound
- Added: May 23, 2007
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 1
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2005
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 4
A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.
- Added: Aug 20, 2004
- Length: 29:55