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Why does a young man abandon everything to head out on the highway? Where will it take him? Using the road metaphor, the author reveals the discove...
- Added: Dec 31, 2023
- Length: 10:15
Erosion and evolution. Shadow and light. Death and rebirth. These are some of the strands that the acclaimed author, naturalist and activist Terry ...
- Added: Dec 18, 2023
- Length: 28:30
George M. Johnson talks about their debut Young Adult memoir All Boys Aren't Blue, the support of their family, their love of Toni Morrison, and th...
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 15:31
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee and bass-baritone Eric Owens in concert at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The preshow "Continuing In Their Footst...
- Added: Jan 24, 2020
- Length: 03:12:17
A periodic podcast featuring performances of short stories that hint us toward living together better as humans and as humans with nature. This epi...
- Added: Aug 10, 2019
- Length: 20:46
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...
Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 11
Mark Sullivan details the story of real life forgotten war hero, Pino Lella and draws parallels with his own life. He also reads a short segment fr...
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Yolanda Wisher wonders about the type of heart the Tin Woman might long to have.
- Added: Dec 05, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat".
- Added: Dec 30, 2015
- Length: 01:50
Poetry and music about moons, planets and gravity.
- Added: Oct 04, 2014
- Length: 56:48
Ryley McGinnis was shy and hadn't thought much about performance poetry when she entered Mackensie Malkemes' English class at Carrboro High School,...
- Added: May 02, 2014
- Length: 04:00
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all others ...
- Added: Dec 27, 2013
- Length: 05:09
Each year during the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen above all oth...
- Added: Dec 18, 2012
- Length: 05:10
These are original stories told by a badly crippled 13 year old girl to her friends and neighbors.
- Added: Mar 06, 2012
- Length: 01:03:10
Featuring commentary by actor Robert Duvall, playwright Horton Foote, NEA Jazz Master David Baker, and Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, among ot...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Prairie Public, KMUN, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Aug 12, 2011
- Length: 29:17
- Purchases: 19
Author Amy Tan talks about her first novel, The Joy Luck Club, her relationship with her mother, and the art of writing.
- Added: Jul 26, 2011
- Length: 27:50
Sonia Sanchez broke literary ground during the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s.
Bought by KENW, KISA Digital Studios, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 18, 2011
- Length: 02:30
- Purchases: 3
Camel's Hump Radio presents two stories from the Vermont Folklife Center Children's Book Series, based on the family history of the Turner family f...
Bought by KTNA
- Added: May 03, 2005
- Length: 28:40
- Purchases: 1
