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Be A Man
From: Aaron Sanders
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personal essay on manliness

  • Added: Mar 13, 2006
  • Length: 03:19
The Lumberyard: A Radio Magazine of Poetry, Prose, & Music 1:11
From: Aaron Sanders
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poems by Naomi Ayala, Amanda Cagle, Jacob Overdurff, Taylor Mali, Chris Anderson, Pit Pinegar, Annarose Fitzgerald, Aaron Mushengyezi, and Jennifer...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 13, 2006
  • Length: 29:07
  • Purchases: 1
Poem for Today, March 17 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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Poems about betrayal in love by John updike and Sir Thomas Wyatt

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:00
Book Review: Zebulon Pike's Journals
From: KRCC-FM
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Book review of Zeb Pike's travel diary

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 05:05
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

Bought by WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 10
Writing medicine
From: Susan Johnston
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Physician and author Vincent Lam talks with Susan Johnston about his first short story collection, "Bloodletting and Miraculous Cures"

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 14:50
A Chilling Tale
From: Susan Johnston
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Author and Publisher Juris Jurjevics discusses "The Trudeau Vector"

  • Added: Feb 17, 2006
  • Length: 19:39
Poetry for Peace (Peace Talks Radio Series)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Poets from across the country offer up their words on the subject of "peace" at a special reading held at the 2005 National Poetry Slam Chapionship...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Jan 18, 2006
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
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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
How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades
From: KCUR
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Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 06:11
  • Purchases: 2
A Character Vault in Bangkok
From: Susan Johnston
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Christopher G. Moore redraws the line between fact and fiction

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 15:37
Until the Pen Runs out of Ink
From: Susan Johnston
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Kevin Matthews' short social commentary, with a tongue-in-cheek look at spoken word

  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 02:09
Twilight's Breaking Dawn
From: Jacob C. Norman
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Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

  • Added: Sep 17, 2005
  • Length: 09:48
History's Greatest Love Affairs: Abelard and Heloise
From: Ed Kliman
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The timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise, complete with period music.

Bought by KZUM and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2
Bloomsday on Broadway XXIV - Leopold's Women Bloom
From: Symphony Space
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The 24th Annual Reading from James Joyce’s Ulysses and Joyce's other works and letters. Featuring Stephen Colbert and Terry Donnelly.

Bought by WNMU-FM and AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio


  • Added: Jun 28, 2005
  • Length: 03:56:43
  • Purchases: 2
Poetry on Death Row - voices from inside
From: Arndt Peltner
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The voices from Death Row Inmates

Bought by XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 3
Natural History of Everything
From: Merle Kessler
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A look at a trend

  • Added: May 11, 2005
  • Length: 01:48
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Border Voices
From: Dan Epstein
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his work accompanied by saxophonist Charles McPherson at the Border Voices poetry fair in San Diego.

Bought by KZYX and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2005
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet and the Painter
From: Jackson Braider
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1975 Philip Whalen - Statement on Poetry
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Whalen reads poem on consciousness and poetry

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
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A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1

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