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Leslie Sainz: A New Voice in Contemporary Poetry
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Leslie Sainz, Credit: Hillary Dubie
Poet and 2021 NEA Literature Fellow Leslie Sainz discusses her creative process and how, as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, she uses poetry to na...

Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WRGY, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Meet Huascar Medina--the Poet Laureate of Kansas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Huascar Medina, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
We're celebrating poetry in this week's podcast. The first Latino and non-academic Poet Laureate of Kansas (and National Council on the Arts member...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
Saluting Zora Neale Hurston and her biographer the late Valerie Boyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Valerie Boyd, Credit: Courtesy: Valerie Boyd
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Speak the Speech, Credit: Kate Saylor
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Afternoon We Spent With Alice Notley
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
Caption: Poet alicce Notley and composer/poet Jeff Gburek in front of Alice's bookcase in Paris., Credit: Marjorie Van Halteren
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
Actor Jeffrey Wright and his work with veterans.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: We Are Not Done Yet, Credit: HBO
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates storytelling with Kiran Singh Sirah
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kiran Singh Sirah
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.

Bought by KZUM and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates novelist Jennifer Haigh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with author Emily St. John Mandel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:28
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with Junot Diaz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Junot Diaz, Credit: Nina Subin
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.

  • Added: Oct 12, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
The National Endowment for the Arts speaks with poet Kim Roberts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kim Roberts
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 04, 2017
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates poetry with Thomas Dooley
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Thomas Dooley
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Cool Gaze of Madame Realism
From: The Organist
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In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:55
Michael Berry and the art of translation
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Yu Hua and Michael Berry Beijing August 2010 , Credit: courtesy of Michael Berry
Michael Berry reflects on the art of translating Yu Hua’s influential novel and new Big Read title To Live into English

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KPIP-LP, WRIR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Aug 23, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Poet Jan Beatty gives voice to the working class
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty's poetry is unsentimental and clear-eyed about blue-collar work and the people who do it.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Apr 15, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Irish Novelist Belinda McKeon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Belinda McKeon , Credit: Will Chancellor
Novelist Belinda McKeon: Writing 21st century Ireland

Bought by KBRP Community Radio, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Mar 17, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Novelist Rebecca Makkai: Writing, Art, and Families
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Author Rebecca Makkai, Credit: Philippe Matsas
From beautifully-crafted short fiction to page-turning gothic novels, Rebecca Makkai puts art at the heart of her work.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WNJR, WABE, KPIP-LP, and KPVL


  • Added: Jul 21, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
Poet Dan Vera translates the immigrant experience
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: May 05, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Poet Taylor Mali:poetry on stage and page
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WNJR


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Dinaw Mengestu talks about his latest book, All Our Names
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
In All Our Names Dinaw Mengestu explores unlikely love in the midst of conflict.

Bought by KPIP-LP and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 09, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Numberlys
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: William Joyce
Creative author, illustrator and filmmaker William Joyce is an Academy Award Winner, Emmy Award Winner and his illustrations have appeared on numer...

  • Added: Jun 20, 2014
  • Length: 16:44
Soul Enrichment
From: Jessica Speer
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Liz Mason is the manager of Quimby's bookstore in Chicago and self-publishes a zine called Caboose. In this brief interview, she discusses her expe...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:35
The Art Forger
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: B.A. Shapiro
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 20:24