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The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love
From: New Letters on the Air
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflectin...

Bought by KFCF FM, WNMU-FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUER and more


  • Added: Apr 27, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
Working-Class Poets
From: New Letters on the Air
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The rigors and joys of work are celebrated in this special anthology program entitled WORKING CLASS POETS. B.H. Fairchild, Susan Gubernat, Robert S...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), GCR (Global Community Radio), and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 07, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Josh Weiss discusses "Beat the Devils"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Josh Weiss is a novelist who lives in Philadelphia.

  • Added: Jun 01, 2022
  • Length: 26:48
National Writers Series: Diana Gabaldon
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series
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Diana Gabaldon talks about her "Outlander" series of books with Deb Leonard.

Bought by Michigan Radio and WKAR


  • Added: Dec 09, 2018
  • Length: 54:29
  • Purchases: 2
Afrofuturism: 3 Women you Need to Know
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
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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
The Write Question - Callan Wink - 450
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author & fishing guide Callan Wink discusses his collection of short stories, Dog Run Moon. He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
PN 17-03 "I Wanna Be Ur Lover (1979)" by Douglas Kearney
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Douglas Kearney, poet, Credit: Rafael Hernandez
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
Not your mother's Moby Dick: How one bookstore is putting an unexpected twist on the classics
From: KALW
Series: Crosscurrents
Caption: The assembled writers and creators behind Shipwreck, Credit: ALAN LEGGITT
When I first started working at The Booksmith, the local independent bookstore a couple blocks from my apartment, it was a lot like what I expected...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
Ep 52 - Roberta Grimes | Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
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Podcasting from The Old Oak Street Burial Ground in Grafton, MA, Piazza and I speak with author, Roberta Grimes, about her book “The Fun of Dying: ...

  • Added: Nov 04, 2014
  • Length: 52:54
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "How To Write A Poem, With Apologies to William Carlos Williams
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:02
Novelist Debra Brenegan
From: New Letters on the Air
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For the holiday weekend, we look back in history at Sara Payson Willis, a novelist, journalist, and feminist who wrote under the pseudonym "Fanny F...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Jul 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
006: Anne Swan and Reality TV
From: Emily Schultz
Series: Truth & Fiction
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Author and reality TV producer Anne Swan (The Real World, Real Housewives of Atlanta) talks about how reality TV is changing the way we write our n...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 48:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Finley - "Is There NASCAR In Heaven"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:54
The Beat: Todd Boss - "Dream In Perfect Color Though I Might"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan - "Love In the Ticket Booth"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
The Beat: Will Weaver - "The Tow Rope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Will Weaver grew up on a dairy farm in Minnesota. He's attended St. Cloud State, the University of Minnesota, and Stanford. He was a Professor of E...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2012
  • Length: 02:07
The Beat: Nathan Bergstedt - "Kim Kardasian Gets A Divorce"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:51
The Beat: Marsh Muirhead - "Jesus Is Coming"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:52
Grant Jerkins discusses "A Very Simple Crime'
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Grant Jerkins is a writer and bookseller in Georgia.

  • Added: Nov 24, 2010
  • Length: 29:40