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Meet The Twin Poets Laureate of Delaware!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Cultural Critic Rashod Ollison on music and memories
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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In his memoir Soul Serenade, Rashod Ollison describes how music was a lifeline during a difficult upbringing.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2016
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Sheer Good Fortune (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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An interview with, and tribute to, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Also: The Civil Rights Movement and television. Plus: the singer Odetta.

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, KISA Digital Studios, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWIT and more


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
Sheer Good Fortune: Celebrating Toni Morrison
From: With Good Reason
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KAAD-LP, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 21, 2016
  • Length: 53:52
  • Purchases: 9
Zora Neale Hurston and the Blues
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
Wild Blessings (Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...

Bought by WCNY, KOWS, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Tayari Jones: Writing the Story
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tayari Jones, Credit: Courtesy of Algonquin Press
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.

Bought by WABE and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
First Novel to TV Series: Author Jason Mott and “The Returned"
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Jason’s first novel was inspired by a dream in which his late mother visited him. He goes on to describe his day job while he was writing the book ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Feb 19, 2015
  • Length: 09:55
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Tim Seibles: In Conversation
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
From Split This Rock in Spring of 2014, Quiddity sits down with poet Tim Seibles

  • Added: Dec 09, 2014
  • Length: 18:13
2011 National Book Award Winner Jesmyn Ward finds the past is often present in rural Mississippi.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Jesmyn Ward, Credit: Tony Cook
In her memoir Men We Reaped, Jesmyn Ward attempts to understand the links in the untimely deaths of her brother and four friends.

Bought by WABE, KPIP-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Oct 23, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 3
Boy, Snow, Bird
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.

Bought by KPIP-LP and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 18, 2014
  • Length: 07:21
  • Purchases: 2
America the Beautiful (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Marian Anderson Sings at Lincoln Memorial: 1939 # 3, Credit: Smithsonian Institution
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S. history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public hostility. Also, s...

Bought by WILL, WCNY, WTJU, and KMXT


  • Added: Jun 21, 2014
  • Length: 53:55
  • Purchases: 4
A Conversation with Dinaw Mengestu
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Dinaw Mengestu, Credit: Michael Lionstar
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Filmmaker, Pratibha Parmar
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Pratibha Parmar discusses making the recent documentary about an iconic American writer, Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth, which can be seen on the Am...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WABE, and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 3
Fresh Talk: Khadijah Queen
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Khadijah Queen
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:03
1619: The Making of America
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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1619 was the year the first Africans arrived on the North American continent. There were at least 20 of them and they came as slaves from Angola. B...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
A Conversation with Poet, Rita Dove
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]

Bought by KPIP-LP and WABE


  • Added: Feb 29, 2012
  • Length: 30:45
  • Purchases: 2
Director Lee Daniels on his film PRECIOUS
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Director Lee Daniels talks to Andrea Chase about making the film, PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE

  • Added: Nov 01, 2009
  • Length: 11:35
Furious Flower
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Clifton on the cover of 'Wild Blessings'
Poet Lucille Clifton is widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanhood, and spirituality.

Bought by WRNC-LP, KVSC, and CKMO


  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 3
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2