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Caption: Alli Warren, poet, Credit: Andrew Kenower
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.

Bought by KSKA, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 18, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Heidi Holtan speaks with novelist and poet Rachel L. Coyne about her new book "The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake." Rachel's book has recently ...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Mar 28, 2016
  • Length: 12:55
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Music and Poetry, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry and music reflecting on the new year.

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jan 02, 2016
  • Length: 42:09
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poetry & Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry and music about giving and receiving gifts.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:40
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“The Falling Man”, Esquire’s most-read story of all time, is discussed by host David Brancaccio (APM's Marketplace Morning Report) and Esquire Writ...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation


  • Added: Oct 05, 2015
  • Length: 34:07
  • Purchases: 3
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Poems about waltzing, literally and figuratively.

  • Added: Jun 14, 2015
  • Length: 57:52
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Featuring writers from the 2014 Pygmalion Literary Fest LitCrawl, recorded live at The Esquire Lounge in Chapaign, IL. Readers in this episode incl...

  • Added: Nov 05, 2014
  • Length: 20:07
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Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...

Bought by KUNM and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Snap Judgment
When we are disparaged, ridiculed, attacked our natural response is a flight to safety to family, to friends, to tribe. But what if there's nowhere...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
Caption: San Quentin
We traveled to San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison, to learn about the lasting tradition of arts and spoken word in this well know...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Etheridge Knight
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...

Bought by WWNO, WLPR , and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Jan 27, 2014
  • Length: 54:09
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Dr Kate Macdonald, Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Gent, Belgium
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...

  • Added: Nov 01, 2012
  • Length: 54:00
Caption: Tai Shan, Credit: Mark Blasco
Songwriter Tai Shan talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Written and performed for the mo...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:00
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Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, KRZA, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 17, 2011
  • Length: 29:03
  • Purchases: 5
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Actor Ed Harris reads from one of his favorite novels, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath---an epic story about the Great Depression told through...

Bought by KMUN, KQED, KRZA, KUCB, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:44
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Edna O'Brien
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2010
  • Length: 26:52
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Duluth journalist Wendy K. Webb her debut creepy novel "The Tale of Halcyon Crane," ("creepy" in a good way)

  • Added: Apr 05, 2010
  • Length: 18:15
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida ( edited language version ) ----- for unedited explicit language version go to ---...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KAAD-LP, WCBE, KMXT, KUNM and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 31
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Takes place August 1964 as Keroauc is packing to move to Florida (EXPLICIT language version) --- for edited language version and promos go to --- h...

Bought by WVPE


  • Added: Apr 01, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Olivia Seward, 2007 Poetry Out Loud Washington State Champion and national finalist, recites "When I Was Fair and Young," by Queen Elizabeth I.

Bought by WKMS


  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:29
  • Purchases: 1
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Editor Joshua Clark and writers from the acclaimed new anthology, LOUISIANA IN WORDS, read short excerpts and discuss this novel approach to descri...

  • Added: Jul 28, 2007
  • Length: 10:14
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The beloved classic novel of a horse?s long and varied life in Victorian England.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Dec 07, 2005
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
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Twelve-year old Summer’s only support is her Great Uncle Ob and he’s lost his will to live. But don’t give up hope – help’s on the way.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Oct 19, 2005
  • Length: 28:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Willy's plan is to win the National Dogsled Race and use the cash prize to save the family farm - but first he'll have to beat Stone Fox, who's nev...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: May 04, 2005
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 1