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An emotional interview where Jennifer Finley talks about overcoming oppression through writing and coming back to herself following a divorce. She ...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, KWMR, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- 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
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
We’ll feature four modern masterpieces for string quartet by Walter Mays, John Adams, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Corigliano on this episode of What...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s “Platero y Yo” for guitar and narrator (based on text by Nobel Prize ...
Bought by Ohm Radio , KXIQ , KTXK, WICR, Interlochen Public Radio and more
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 40
When Sinead Morrissey won the 2013 T.S. Eliot Poetry Prize for her fifth book, PARALLAX, her work was then published in the U.S. pulling from all f...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Affliction by Russell Banks.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 03:42
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
In November of 1988, Robin Woods was sentenced to sixteen years in the notoriously harsh Maryland Correctional Institution. In prison, Robin found ...
Bought by WFAE
- Added: Jan 14, 2017
- Length: 27:37
- Purchases: 1
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
Christmas poetry and music ranging from introspective to light.
- Added: Dec 24, 2016
- Length: 51:55
- Purchases: 4
When you have nothing, where do you turn for warmth and comfort? Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Match Girl" strikes a match and in the brief...
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 09:24
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Nov 19, 2016
- Length: 57:24
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
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
As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- 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
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 58:47
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 11, 2016
- Length: 56:52
Viktor Frankl’s book 'Man’s Search for Meaning' is part memoir, part manifesto and part discourse on human psychology. Written in 1946, after Vikto...
- Added: Jun 09, 2016
- Length: 50:26
