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How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
The New Silence: a poem for the new climate
From: The National Audio Theatre Festivals
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By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...

Bought by KAAD-LP and KUNM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2020
  • Length: 27:13
  • Purchases: 2
The Afternoon We Spent With Alice Notley
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: Poet alicce Notley and composer/poet Jeff Gburek in front of Alice's bookcase in Paris., Credit: Marjorie Van Halteren
An intimate conversation with poet Alice Notley at her home in Paris. Produced by award-winning producer Marjorie Van Halteren.

  • Added: Apr 11, 2020
  • Length: 34:02
Mainlander
From: Patricia Petelin
Series: The Midrange
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I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2018
  • Length: 13:08
GPV28 Book Review - The Map and the Territory
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of The Map and the Territory by Michel Houellebecq.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2017
  • Length: 03:03
GPV07 Book Review - My Voice Will Go With You
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of My Voice Will Go With You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson by Milton Erickson and Sidney Rosen.

  • Added: Jan 12, 2017
  • Length: 02:17
For Lynda Pt. 4
From: Kendra Dobson
Series: Columbus Myth
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In a future world, we have lost the technology for video/film/picture or recorded image. It is against their religion to draw or be involved with ...

  • Added: Feb 24, 2016
  • Length: 09:32
A 'RadioActive' Showcase Of The Magic Of Writing
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
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Nothing is more powerful than the magic that comes from your mind, down your arm, through your fingertips, down your pen and onto the page. The Mar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2015
  • Length: 19:59
GUEST: Haushka (Volker Bertelmann) + REMIX: Sergey Suokas + Claudia Rankine
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D audio.

Bought by Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:30
  • Purchases: 1
Riddles from the Border Regions 2/22/14
From: Joan VanBuskirk
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A STEM OF HERB ....

  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
The Beat : Marsh Muirhead - "Thin Ice"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat : Bill Caldwell - "Dog Days"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Bill Caldwell is a nurse, a therapist, and a poet. Much of what he knows about poetry is related to classes at The Loft at the Minnesota Center for...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "On Juggler Lake"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildeagard, a University of Minnesota - Morris lecturer, looks deeply and metaphorically at a Blue Herring's stop in the poem "On Juggl...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
The Great America in Writing - Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin
From: Open Source
Caption: Jimmy Breslin in his Manhattan home.
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Moral Maps and Geographies of Conflict - Melani McAlister & Téa Obreht
From: Open Source
Caption: Melani McAlister's book jacket for Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and US Interests, 1945-2000
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Apr 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
John Irving Interview
From: Jane Lindholm
Caption: Jane Lindholm and John Irving, Credit: Sarah Ashworth
Vermont Public Radio's Jane Lindholm sits down for a wide-ranging interview with novelist John Irving at his home in Vermont. Short and long versio...

Bought by Northeast Indiana Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2010
  • Length: 46:43
  • Purchases: 1
The Peabody Sisters: an interview with biographer Megan Marshall on ThoughtCast
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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An interview with Megan Marshall, the biographer of The Peabody Sisters -- three women who helped found the Transcendentalist movement in the mid-1...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 35:58
  • Purchases: 1
Virgil's Georgics: ThoughtCast interviews the poet and translator David Ferry
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1
"The Hand of God"
From: Elizabeth Austen
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Poet Emily Warn reading her poem, "The Hand of God," with commentary by literary producer Elizabeth Austen.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 06:19
How Place Shapes Us
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
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From Hawaiia, a tropical canvas.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2008
  • Length: 03:58
The Pride
From: Matt Gajewski
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A young lion's hapless father aspires to be King of the Jungle.

  • Added: Oct 16, 2008
  • Length: 48:30
Show 5: Ballads, Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Fate in Dylan's Long Ballads

Bought by KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WMNF, KIDE Hoopa Tribal Radio 91.3fm and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
"Leo speeds up when he sees a yard sale."(B)
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Sometimes we look for secrets, sometimes the secrets find us.

  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 17:22
"He changed his mind..."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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Welcome to that place that stands between us and sleep.

Bought by KUT and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 08:26
  • Purchases: 2
"Pick up."
From: Joseph Dougherty
Series: Handwritten Theatre
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The light is flashing on your answering machine. Pick up.

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 03, 2008
  • Length: 10:54
  • Purchases: 1