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Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Shane McCrae imagines the life of the adopted son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Roberto Tejada guides through an underworld of surveillance.
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Eric Amling remembers the death of a beloved celebrity and considers a world saturated in pharmaceuticals.
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
The practice of hunting wild birds with trained birds — for fun — is called falconry. Though it came into its own almost 1,000 years ago in England...
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 31:40
- Purchases: 1
Monica McClure imagines a prophet in the forest who collects the lives of men.
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Pérez portrays a person on a train fleeing from a past life.
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
For the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Joshua Clover offers to read poetry at the White House.
Bought by KENW, KHSU, KRZA, KMUD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Yusef Komunyakaa remembers a swimming hole frequented as a child.
- Added: Dec 30, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Rachel Galvin contemplates the politics of complicity.
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
John Yau meditates on mortality and the remembrance of the dead.
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Andrew Joron mediates on the cycle of the moon in language that shifts and slips in meaning.
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Idra Novey imagines the thoughts of a man pregnant with a panda bear.
- Added: Nov 28, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.
- Added: Nov 21, 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
Dara Wier meditates on the mind’s need for security and sanctuary from a troubled world.
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Louis the German divides the Rhine and the doomed space shuttle Challenger is used by the Department of Defense on its last successful (classified)...
- Added: Sep 20, 2016
- Length: 02:20:46
John Berendt, recorded at HEAR/NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, discusses his best-selling MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD A...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
