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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Stacyann Chin about her long awaited anthology, Crossfire, and her relationship to a cannon d...
Bought by KDNK
- Added: May 13, 2020
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 1
Bois Forte Band Ojibwe Author, Linda LeGarde Grover shares her stories of the Lake Vermilion Boarding School.
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 05:11
Native Comedian Ron Kanutski is a very funny guy!
- Added: Apr 17, 2020
- Length: 04:51
Samantha Dwyer from Humanities Montana interviews acclaimed science journalist David Quammen about his book, "Spillover: Animal Infections and the ...
- Added: Apr 13, 2020
- Length: 23:00
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
New Letters on the Air features Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. This Cave Canem fellow shares...
- Added: Jan 20, 2020
- Length: 29:00
We feature literature and commentary about the December holiday season from our rich archives. The late Rabbi Gerald Kane discusses the origins of ...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest Jon Meacham.
- Added: Dec 03, 2019
- Length: 53:58
A member of the Navajo Nation, Bojan Louis is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and author of the 2018 American Book Award-winning poetry collection...
Bought by WMMT
- Added: Dec 02, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
SHORT DESCRIPTION: National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet Laura Kasischke explores topics from motherhood to beauty queens in her 2017 boo...
- Added: Oct 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...
- Added: Oct 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with part two of a former Kansas Poets Laureate reading, sponsored by the Kansas Area Watershed C...
- Added: Sep 11, 2019
- Length: 29:00
This week on the show: Alexander von Humboldt is still alive -
He was the most famous scientist in the world when he was alive. And then he was ...
Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Sep 04, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
During the Nazi regime, many German artists, scientists, and other intellectuals found refuge in Southern California. The authors Lion Feuchtwanger...
- Added: Aug 07, 2019
- Length: 34:48
Joaquín Zihuatanejo discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas. He also talks about his early life growing up without his father ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Listen to Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien at the Kansas City Public Library, as he discusses experiences that fueled his collection of short stories, T...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
In this presentation at the Kansas City Public Library, Scottish-born writer Margot Livesey talks about her evolution as a reader and writer, and s...
- Added: May 08, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Recorded in front of a live audience, WMRA and James Madison University present The John Grisham Writers Hour with special guest James McBride, a N...
Bought by WCVE
- Added: Feb 28, 2019
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 1
Michigan native Marcus Wicker reads from his 2011 National Poetry Series winning collection, MAYBE THE SADDEST THING, which was also a finalist for...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jan 30, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
