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Tonight we are talking about hidden things: secret societies, international conspiracies. Joining us by telephone from New York is the author Colin...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Jul 07, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin digs for clues with a detective, a journalist, and a man who believes he’s dead in the audio edition of Hal...

Bought by Harford Community Radio, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Dr. Synnika's Topical Poem of the Week is a weekly show that uses poetry to explore the social, political, and racial conditions in America. Each e...

  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 03:30
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Kansas native Ben Lerner penned three collections of poetry before turning to fiction. While at the Kansas City Public Library, Lerner reads from h...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In this interview, Russell Rowland discusses his 2019 novel, "Cold Country," which had just been optioned for film. He also reads a few short passa...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Prairie Public, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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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
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Robin O'Day, Elke Govertsen, and Julie Janj discuss their contributions to the anthology, "We Leave the Flowers Where They Are: True Stories of Mon...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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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
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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
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "Pick Your Poison" - A weapon? A medicine? A murder mystery plot? Take your pick. HOUR TWO: "Sentimentality For Silicon" - When does a ...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Multi-award-winning poet and MacArthur fellow, Terrance Hayes, reads from his fifth book, HOW TO BE DRAWN, winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Bjorn Dihle discusses his book, "Haunted Inside Passage: Ghosts, Legends, and Mysteries of Southeast Alaska." He also reads two short passages.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KTOO, and KWMR


  • Added: Jun 12, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: David Skrbina, The Jesus Hoax
Dr. David Skrbina makes the case that Christianity started as a hoax by Paul.

Bought by WETS


  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 54:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: David Shook, poet
David Shook responds to a poem by Pablo Neruda with his own poem set in present-day Middle East.

Bought by KUER, KENW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 25, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Marie Buck describes relaxing activities many people like to do, and one rather unpleasant one.

Bought by KENW and KALW


  • Added: Dec 27, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Chernobyl--Liquidators
Cynthia Wolfe joins us to discuss her “Platinum” ranked audio program “Nuclear Nightingales” which consists of readings from the oral history Voice...

  • Added: Aug 04, 2017
  • Length: 57:43
Caption: Melissa Broder, poet, Credit: Lord Byron
Melissa Broder writes about self-realization and survival.

Bought by KALW and KENW


  • Added: May 31, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Yusef Komunyakaa, poet
Yusef Komunyakaa remembers a swimming hole frequented as a child.

Bought by KALW, KENW, KHSU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 30, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Idra Novey, poet, Credit: Donata Zannoti
Idra Novey imagines the thoughts of a man pregnant with a panda bear.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Nov 28, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: David Trinidad, poet, Credit: Alyssa Lynee
David Trinidad describes a movie set for a cop film set in 1970s San Francisco.

Bought by KALW, WOUB, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 29, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Farnoosh Fathi, poet
Farnoosh Fathi reads a poem on the occasion of poet John Ashbery’s 87th birthday.

Bought by KVNO, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Sep 09, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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"Recalculating" is Charles Bernstein's first new book of poetry since his daughter, Emma Bee Bernstein, died in December of 2008, and is in large m...

  • Added: May 31, 2016
  • Length: 57:19
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We’re told intelligent machines and big data will free us from work, educate our children, transform our environment, and even make religion more u...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2016
  • Length: 58:34
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What do acting, literature and philosophy have in common with branding, fascism and incarceration? How can the humanities confront the problem of t...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 58:22