PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature
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HOUR ONE: "Docupoetry" - Have you ever wished there was a different way to read – or hear - the news? For generations, through wars and political u...
- Added: Jan 12, 2024
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," dominated the global box office. This hour, a literary ta...
- Added: Oct 06, 2023
- Length: 01:59:00
HOUR ONE: "Astonishing African Futures" - The new Black Panther movie, "Wakanda Forever," is dominating the global box office. This hour, a litera...
- Added: Dec 09, 2022
- Length: 01:59:00
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
In light of the recent events regarding race in America, we revisit MacArthur Genius and Guggenheim Fellow, Claudia Rankine, who discusses her mo...
- Added: Jun 09, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Afrofuturism is a growing genre-movement that spans literature, art, music, and film. It provides radical alternatives to dominant Western narrativ...
Bought by WMMT, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KQED, KVNF, WRIR and more
- Added: Jun 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Kiki Petrosino imagines an escape from a fairy house.
- Added: Aug 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
In her collection of essays, author and publisher Janet Cheatham Bell emphasizes our mutual dependency. It’s about identifying and using the power ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...
Bought by WCSU-FM
- Added: Nov 16, 2011
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida, WSLR, WHFR, KUOW, KVNF and more
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
- Purchases: 16
