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Border Voices
From: Dan Epstein
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his work accompanied by saxophonist Charles McPherson at the Border Voices poetry fair in San Diego.

Bought by KZYX and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2005
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet and the Painter
From: Jackson Braider
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4
Transit Duchess
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Inner thoughts riding bus late at night in New York

  • Added: Mar 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
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A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4
Barry, Bob & Me
From: Brian Beatty
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An aspiring writer discovers that inspiration and imitation aren't the same thing.

  • Added: Feb 20, 2005
  • Length: 04:00
National Poetry Month Commentary
From: Brian Beatty
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A humorous look at the rhyming, if not cruelest, month.

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WKMS, and Public Interactive


  • Added: Feb 15, 2005
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 3
Sounds in a Cowboy's Head
From: Claes Andreasson
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Cowboy Poetry in Elko, Nevada

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Nov 18, 2004
  • Length: 10:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Changing (and Ghoulish) Faces of Halloween
From: Jackson Braider
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How Halloween has -- and hasn't -- changed over the years.

Bought by WTJU, KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo. and more


  • Added: Oct 28, 2004
  • Length: 06:30
  • Purchases: 9
SubwayLand
From: WFUV
Series: Subculture Series
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New York Times columnist Randy Kennedy finds his writing muse underground

Bought by KALW and PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 24, 2004
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
Elsewhere
From: Hillary Frank
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Hillary Frank talks to Lois Lowry about her novel THE GIVER -- and finds out why the author's visit to Hillary's hometown makes a group of Russian ...

Bought by PRX Remix, The Story, Remix Radio, and WYSO


  • Added: Aug 18, 2004
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 4
What is Poetry?
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Wandering Jew stories
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Sandburg on poetry

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZYX, WART FM, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KUER and more


  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 18
Laughing without an Accent
From: Holly Kernan
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Iranian born Firoozeh Dumas' Audio Diary of a first time author

Bought by KUOW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WFUV, WYSO, and PRX Administrator


  • Added: Sep 06, 2003
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 5

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