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On the Frontlines
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Library workers often risk their livelihoods when they speak out against censorship, spurring community members to pick up the fight for intellectu...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Dec 13, 2023
  • Length: 25:35
  • Purchases: 1
Battle of the Classics
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
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Banning of so-called “classics” grabs public attention, but books like To Kill a Mockingbird and 1984 don't need your defense. It's the more recent...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2023
  • Length: 19:25
Linda Sarsour: We Can’t Afford To be Bystanders During Covid-19
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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A pandemic is no place to be a bystander, says Muslim American activist Linda Sarsour. In this episode, Laura interviews Sarsour about her recently...

Bought by KDNK and RadioFreePalmer


  • Added: Apr 29, 2020
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - SM Hulse - 425
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Novelist SM Hulse discusses her latest book, Eden Mine. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Sophia Shalmiyev - 443
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her lyric, immigrant memoir "Mother Winter." She also reads a short passage.

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


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Molly Caro May - 315
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Molly Caro May discusses her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood.

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


  • Added: Feb 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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
The Write Question - Deb Zoe Laufer - 300
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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New York playwright Deb Zoe Laufer discusses her work, Informed Consent, a play based on a court case between an indigenous tribe and the Arizona S...

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


  • Added: Nov 07, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
PN 16-15 "What Do You Call" by Cornelius Eady
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Cornelius Eady, poet, Credit: Lynda Koolish
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.

Bought by KVNO, KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Beat: Gary Lee Joyner - "In Her Dark Ear"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist,teacher and poet from the Twin Cities. He describes the map of his activities as an archipelago of isl...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:32
Novus Ordo Seclorum
From: Rob MacClanahan
Series: The Time Traveler
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Progressive events in California and America threaten liberty, sovereignty and the Constitution...

  • Added: Sep 02, 2015
  • Length: 02:50:47
The Beat: Louise Fouquerel-Skoe - "Untitled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Louise Fouquerel-Skoe is a middler schooler in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. She loves art, loves creativity in...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: :50
The Beat: Addie Dauner - "Untitled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:25
The Beat: Jesse Dermody- "The Statuette (In the Alcove)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:01
Chelsea Cain discusses "One Kick"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Chelsea Snow Cain is an American novelist and columnist.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2014
  • Length: 23:51
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Trickles of Faith"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
The Beat: Susan Carol Hauser - "April"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 02:35
The Beat: Ryan Vine "Rule 2"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
A Conversation with Novelist, Manil Suri
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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The City of Devi, an apocalyptic sex comedy and love story, is the third book in Manil Suri’s trilogy centered on Mumbai. [26:08]

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 19, 2014
  • Length: 26:07
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day in Poetry and Stories Narrated by Roy Trumbull
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A program of poems by Carl Sandburg on the mortality of things, civilizations, and men. A Native American story, and the tale of the last buffalos

Bought by KMUN and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Sonja Kosler - "Resting Place"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sonya Kosler is a poet who lives in Dent, Minnesota. She belongs to the Lakes Area Story Guild, the National Storytelling Network, and the Northlan...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Broadband"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Broadband." The Beat i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
Culturology: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "First Year" by J. O. Salls
“First Year” is a 2011 novel by retired teacher, J.O. Salls. It’s the story of 23 year old English teacher, Robert Baker. The story takes us throug...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 11:23
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Guys Like That"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Guys Like That." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:10
A Conversation with Luis Alberto Urrea
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Author Luis Alberto Urrea talks about the inspiration for and writing of his novel Into the Beautiful North, which takes place from Sinaloa, Mexico...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 25:54
  • Purchases: 1