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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 26:51
While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...
- Added: Oct 10, 2019
- Length: 31:19
We continue our series on State Poets Laureate with the most recent California State Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia. In this archive interview, the Cali...
- Added: Aug 28, 2019
- Length: 29:00
On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...
- Added: Jul 30, 2019
- Length: 44:44
Poet Barry Brent shares his poem "Woman with a Mango" on this segment of Wordish.
- Added: Jan 14, 2019
- Length: 02:20
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Dec 11, 2018
- Length: 30:10
- Purchases: 1
For Labor Day weekend, listen to Robert Stewart, the St. Louis born writer and editor of NEW LETTERS magazine, as he talks about his creative proce...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 31, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack visits the Great River Regional L...
- Added: Jul 12, 2018
- Length: 29:02
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.
- Added: Jun 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In the first half of this conversation with writer Keegan Jennings Goodman reads an excerpt of his most recent book. Edited by Alex Kime.
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 22:19
Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town
- Added: May 03, 2018
- Length: 28:18
Melissa Range's poetry collection Scriptorium illuminates her Appalachian Roots
- Added: Apr 13, 2018
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 2
Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.
- Added: Mar 23, 2018
- Length: 29:28
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
Music fuses with literature this Thursday at the Grand Rapids Area Library when Minnesota Book Award Winners Melanie Hoffert, Margi Preus, and Matt...
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 14:25
Ian Rankin is best known for two characters: Inspector John Rebus, the protagonist of now 21 mystery novels, and the city of Edinburgh, whose dark ...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 10:30
Author, outspoken vegetarian, social media abstainer and writing teacher Jonathan Safran Foer is author of three novels: Everything Is Illuminated,...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 08:09
Michael Cunningham is best known as the author of The Hours, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, which imagines a fateful day in the life of V...
- Added: Aug 10, 2017
- Length: 11:04
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
On Friday, June 9, the Great River Shakespeare Festival and the Winona Public Library held a Storytelling Showcase. To prep for the showcase, Great...
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 38:53
Kim Roberts brings a poet’s eye to The Scientific Method
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 04, 2017
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Dooley's collection of poetry Trespass shines a light in dark places.
- Added: Apr 27, 2017
- Length: 28:00
- Purchases: 2
From: Colleen Patrick-Goudreau
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
Series: Animalogy \ Revealing the Animals in Our Everyday Words and Phrases
English is a remarkable language. It's an incredibly flexible, rich, diverse, beautifully fluid language that’s been influenced by many other langu...
- Added: Jan 25, 2017
- Length: 21:12
In a slim, lucid and compulsively readable book, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville’s classic Moby-Dick.
- Added: Nov 30, 2016
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 2
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Oct 05, 2016
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 1
