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As a backlash against LGBTQ rights escalates into an authoritarian crusade, acclaimed author and queer activist Taylor Brorby asks how we can still...
- Added: Aug 01, 2023
- Length: 28:30
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer Danielle Geller discusses her debut memoir, "Dog Flowers" - a story of returning to the Navajo reservation after her mother's death.
Bought by WETS, KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Jan 20, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Writer Victoria Chang discusses her new epistolary collection, "Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief."
Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jan 06, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
On this episode of Incoming we talk with Doug Bradley, Army veteran and author of We Gotta Get Outta This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War....
- Added: Jan 11, 2021
- Length: 58:01
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
A decades-long resident of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Randall Freisinger gives insight into the often wintery world of his surroundings and shares...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Oct 29, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
In this very special Story Saturday edition, Laura talks with award-winning author Kirin Khan, who began this time of sheltering in place in a fire...
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 48:44
Episode 2. Spoon talks about a dog rescue program that took place inside Lancaster State Prison. He talked to Common the rapper, Matthew visits a s...
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
First episode. Spoon talks about growing up in the desert, reads a poem about maggots and a pig, and Matthew visits his parents.
- Added: Apr 27, 2020
- Length: 20:00
We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Poetry about five particular musical instruments.
- Added: Sep 21, 2019
- Length: 58:00
In the second part of a conversation with poet and "MacArthur genius" Edward Hirsch, he discusses how the sudden death of his son inspired his awar...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Jun 26, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Michael Berenbaum as he comes to the St. Cl...
Bought by KWIT
- Added: Jun 10, 2019
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
Two stories of intimacy, shared through letters and interior monologues.
Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KUNM, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 21
Opiate addiction has become increasingly common in the commercial fishing industry. For one Massachusetts-born playwright, a brother’s death from a...
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 09:30
Author and therapist Joyce Lynette Hocker discusses her memoir, "Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life's End." She also reads a short selection.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bonnie Bolling, the mother of four grown sons, has been the editor-in-chief of VERDAD magazine since 2006, and now, she and her husband divide the...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:25
David Lau combines opera, theater, and avant garde art in a poem inspired by student protests.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry.
- Added: Aug 14, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
