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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'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
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself....

  • Added: Oct 21, 2022
  • Length: 29:30
Author Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Dancing to the Lyrics won Dwayne Ratleff a Best Indie Book Award in the “LGBTQ Coming Of Age” category., Credit: Book cover art by Leann E. Johnson / L&J Graphics
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 4
Saluting Zora Neale Hurston and her biographer the late Valerie Boyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Valerie Boyd, Credit: Courtesy: Valerie Boyd
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
Bob Dylan-All Mixed Up
From: Peter Bochan
Series: All Mixed Up
Caption: Bob Dylan, Credit: 1961
Join us for a celebration of Bob Dylan's Birthday with Bob Fass, Big Joe Turner, Al Kooper, Les Crane, The Band, Richard Ashcroft, John Hammond, Em...

Bought by Prairie Public


  • Added: May 24, 2021
  • Length: 01:58:06
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Speak the Speech, Credit: Kate Saylor
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Written World
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Martin Puchner
Think about the many stories you’ve heard or read over the years. Some of those stories may have had a major impact on your life, or maybe even the...

Bought by KCBX and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 04, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
It's Very Indian to Watch AbFab
From: The Organist
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
  • Purchases: 1
GPV33 Book Review - A Curious Mind
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 A Curious Mind by Brian Grazer.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:43
TPV05 My Throwback - A Forgotten Civil Rights Hero
From: Gerald Jones
Series: GetPublished! Radio Book Review Featurettes
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
GetPublished! Radio co-host and sci-fi author Thomas Page gives us an oddball history lesson about how an angry Ike came off the golf course to kic...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:46
Uppity Women: Women's History Month Special
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Vicki Leon
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...

Bought by KVSC and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 02, 2016
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 2
A 'RadioActive' Showcase Of The Magic Of Writing
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Caption: PRX default Piece image
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
A Higher Call: Memorial Day Story
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Charlie Brown & Franz Stigler
On December 20, 1943, a severely damaged American bomber struggles in its flight over war-torn Germany. The 21-year-old pilot had his hands full wi...

Bought by KFCF FM, KPIK-LP, WHRV, WDCB, KVSC and more


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)
From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014
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100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU


  • Added: Apr 24, 2014
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 1
Saving Paradise (pledge drive edition)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Saving Paradise , Credit: Book cover
IdeaSphere … Saving Paradise: Author and environmental activist Mike Bond uses fiction to tell the real story of Hawaii’s fight against corporation...

Bought by KAWC / Border Radio - KOFA and KCBX


  • Added: Mar 21, 2014
  • Length: 20:41
  • Purchases: 2
What are you reading? (Asked to 4th Graders)
From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism
Caption: 4th Grader Book Lovers
With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 24, 2014
  • Length: 02:38
  • Purchases: 1
Colin Fischer
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: Colin Fischer, Credit: Jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:42
The Interfaith Alternative
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
Why I Really Like This Book
From: Kate Macdonald
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a weekly podcast for curious readers about forgotten books

  • Added: Aug 07, 2011
  • Length: 01:21:44
On The Margins of Music - Alan Lomax & Anthony Burgess
From: Open Source
Caption: Anthony Burgess by David Levine, from The New York Review of Books
First, we join biographer John Szwed in thanking the eccentric musical anthropologist Alan Lomax for his rare recordings of early twentieth century...

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


  • Added: Mar 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 5
Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Open Source
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
HUNGRY: Julia Child Presents "A Dickens Holiday Feast"
From: Leet and Litwin
Series: HUNGRY: The Literary Julia Child
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Julia says, "'A Christmas Carol' is a lovely story to read during the holidays, because it has a happy ending." The actor Peter Donat takes us to V...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNMU-FM, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., KMUD, KMUN and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 25:44
  • Purchases: 19
Natalie Goldberg - on ThoughtCast!
From: Jenny Attiyeh
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Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2