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Today's show features an essay on the cultural impact of Harry Potter.
Bought by PRX to iTunes and WXLV-FM
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 08:30
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:36
Clutter: it pursues us, fills our drawers, hides our keys.
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:18
Memories of War, Dreams of Peace
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:39
David recalls a beloved children's book with a message.
- Added: Aug 18, 2008
- Length: 03:47
- Added: Jun 29, 2008
- Length: 02:50
His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:26
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:08
Reaction to controversy at a Texas high school over teaching of "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn".
- Added: Nov 30, 2007
- Length: 03:07
- Added: Nov 16, 2007
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
Canadian poet George Bowering believes human intellect is the closest thing we have to the divine.
- Added: Aug 22, 2007
- Length: 03:24
- Purchases: 3
Marissa Sellers wrote this poem during her trip to Rwanda in 2006.
- Added: Jun 19, 2007
- Length: 01:04
Commentator Melissa Hart considers what sort of payback a memoir by her father might contain.
- Added: Jun 07, 2007
- Length: 03:39
- Added: May 20, 2007
- Length: 06:55
There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:26
This documentary is about two men who, at mid-life, re-read Kerouac's book and get behind the wheel for a 4000 mile road trip of reflection and di...
Bought by WUSM, WGBH Radio Boston, WVPE, KZYX, WKSU and more
- Added: Feb 07, 2007
- Length: 57:05
- Purchases: 7
Some people prefer clarity and closure but Father Richard Rohr finds belief and comfort in mystery.
- Added: Feb 01, 2007
- Length: 03:33
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 30, 2006
- Length: 09:47
- Purchases: 1
Novelist Aldous Huxley talks about self-knowledge and the power of change.
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- Added: Jun 22, 2006
- Length: 04:31
- Purchases: 4
- Added: Jun 21, 2006
- Length: 04:21
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 20, 2006
- Length: 04:30
- Purchases: 2
From Huck Finn, Iranian-born writer and teacher Azar Nafisi learns to believe in the power of empathy.
- Added: Jun 12, 2006
- Length: 04:39
- Added: Apr 11, 2005
- Length: 06:43
- Purchases: 1
This edition of LIVE at the Writers House features poets and writers from the University of Pennsylvania community.
- Added: Apr 01, 2005
- Length: 59:01
