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On this segment of Wordish Jennifer Derrick shares her essay "Dressing Room".
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 02:01
Poet Serenity Schoonover shares her poem "Simple, Sacred".
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 02:50
Poet Brett Elizabeth Jenkins shares her poem "A Man in an Illinois Toll Booth Called Me a Beautiful Woman as I Was Driving Away".
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 01:52
Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Joyce Sutphen shares her poem "Defying Gravity" about the experience between a parent and a child.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 01:43
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Micheal Goldberg takes a look at Russia through music, poems and essays.
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 59:12
Celebrating the continental American solar eclipse with Michael Goldberg.
- Added: Aug 24, 2017
- Length: 58:20
Robert Jevne shares "In Totality (or not)" on this segment of Wordish.
- Added: Aug 23, 2017
- Length: 03:23
On this segment Michael Goldberg gives us animal stories; a wolf, a donkey, a dog, animals teaching us something on how to stay human.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
- Purchases: 3
In her essay, "Chataqua", Lisa Joy Hesse plumbs the depths of deer, deer and more deer as well as our continuing fascination with them.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:21
Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen recites her poem "Carrying Water".
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:14
In her poem "Chicken Without a Cause" Linda Back McKay brings us a surreal account of a transformation.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:20
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
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- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Excerpts from Rachel Cohen's essay "Lost Cities" and segments of poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy examine the allure of one's home ...
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 53:20
This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 53:46
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:11
When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
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- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR.
But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
- Added: Dec 24, 2016
- Length: 04:39
