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Author and therapist Joyce Lynette Hocker discusses her memoir, "Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life's End." She also reads a short selection.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bonnie Bolling, the mother of four grown sons, has been the editor-in-chief of VERDAD magazine since 2006, and now, she and her husband divide the...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
David Shook responds to a poem by Pablo Neruda with his own poem set in present-day Middle East.
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
David Lau combines opera, theater, and avant garde art in a poem inspired by student protests.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa meditates on political exile and personal loss.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 6
Barbara Jane Reyes remembers and praises the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was swindled into becoming a drug mule.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
An emotional interview where Jennifer Finley talks about overcoming oppression through writing and coming back to herself following a divorce. She ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Correctional Institution. In prison, Robin found ...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Margaret Noodin sings a poem in Anishinaabemowin and discusses Native American languages and heritage.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHNS, KHSU, KALW, and KENW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
J. Michael Martinez writes of love and the body through the language of the natural world.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
