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Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
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This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...

Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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In 1993, a family was found murdered in their home. A Maryland police spokesperson described the homicide investigation as the most “exhaustive and...

Bought by HowSound


  • Added: Mar 12, 2018
  • Length: 25:03
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Philip Schaefer discusses his award-winning collection of poems, Bad Summon. He also reads a selection of poems.

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


  • Added: Mar 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 08, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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165 Halloweens on, we still call on Edgar Allan Poe when we want a disturbing kind of classic — all of the horror with none of the guilt. His most ...

Bought by WLPR , KTSW 89.9, KPIP-LP, WCQS, WABE and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 58:35
  • Purchases: 6
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Writer and Latino activist Luis J. Rodriguez was born in El Paso and grew up in East L.A. We went to talk Luis Rodriguez simply because he, and hi...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 22, 2014
  • Length: 11:03
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode we talk about a lesser known tale, The Armless Maiden. How does she get her arms chopped off you ask? Maybe her dad does it to save...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2013
  • Length: 19:56
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Home and Other Places we Left is a short story about a reluctant savior and the weight of imposed responsibility.

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 04:57
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The Pawn chronicles a meth addict’s transformative journey to the river and back.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 21:33
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Dings is a specially adapted short story about a terrifying end of life car ride.

  • Added: Apr 27, 2012
  • Length: 12:20