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- Added: May 24, 2019
- Length: 58:58
A lawyer-turned-poet and twice a finalist for the National Book Award, Monica Youn reveals why she felt the need to leave the legal field for creat...
- Added: May 23, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Added: Apr 06, 2019
- Length: 58:25
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Concepts and choices we make as a new year begins.
- Added: Jan 05, 2019
- Length: 01:00:00
Poetry and music reflecting the end of one year and the start of another.
Bought by WVIA, Raven Radio, and KMSU
- Added: Dec 29, 2018
- Length: 57:57
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Dec 22, 2018
- Length: 01:00:13
- Added: Nov 24, 2018
- Length: 01:00:55
- Added: Oct 20, 2018
- Length: 57:35
The mystique of the violin explored in poetry and music.
- Added: Oct 06, 2018
- Length: 01:06:24
Droll offerings of poetic verse; dedicated to the memory of a good friend of the program.
- Added: Sep 15, 2018
- Length: 01:00:01
- Added: Sep 08, 2018
- Length: 54:47
- Added: Sep 01, 2018
- Length: 55:25
- Purchases: 1
We travel to the Virginia tidewater region with poet Dave Smith, who grew up along that coast. Though he has lived and taught elsewhere, his many b...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 18, 2018
- Length: 58:42
The experience of performing music is examined by poetry and musical references.
- Added: Mar 17, 2018
- Length: 56:26
We continue Women's History Month with Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill. Considered one of the country's leading poets writing all in Irish, she’s won numerous ...
Bought by WDCB and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Mar 15, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Feb 10, 2018
- Length: 53:56
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU
- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Michael McGriff talks about his artistic process and reads from two collections of poetry. He also discuses his translation of the Swedish Nobel Pr...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KSJD
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Antonya Nelson is the author of eleven books of fiction. She talks about her most recent books: the novel BOUND which covers growing up in Wichita,...
- Added: Jul 19, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poems and music suited to the mystery and beauty of the night.
- Added: Jun 09, 2017
- Length: 56:34
Excerpts from Rachel Cohen's essay "Lost Cities" and segments of poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy examine the allure of one's home ...
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 53:20
Poetry and music about paintings and painters.
- Added: Mar 10, 2017
- Length: 55:19
