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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...
- Added: May 30, 2023
- Length: 53:50
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself....
- Added: Oct 21, 2022
- Length: 29:30
Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 29:10
- Purchases: 4
FAVORITES features excerpts from shows of the past decade with Nikki Giovanni, Marcus Wicker, Thomas Keneally, Ellen Bass, Daniel Woodrell and Alex...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Jul 28, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This 5 minute program is on of 76 in this series. We explore more of the fables of a great renaissance man...Bartolomeo Scala through spoken word a...
- Added: May 14, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
The Verse Like Water program started by Central Lakes College instructor Jeff Johnson has been bringing world class American poets to the Brainerd ...
- Added: Mar 29, 2017
- Length: 07:36
The largest attempted slave escape on U.S. soil happened in SouthWest Washington, DC. That's the tale in "Passenger on the Pearl." Young readers d...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 39:45
In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 1
My Dad never wanted to be a hero. Survival was the only option.
- Added: Mar 26, 2014
- Length: 11:01
Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 01:54
Farhia Omar is a Minneapolis based artist who was born in Somalia. When she isn't writing poetry and stories she's designing jewelry. The Beat is...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 01:30
Judith Tannenbaum taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Cor...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 18:09
- Purchases: 1
For D.C. youths who get caught up in the adult system, prison isn’t just an experience, it’s a journey. Because it’s not a full-fledged state, the ...
Bought by KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:24
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of "Culture Clique" we examine small business culture in Winona, with Chris Livingston - Owner of The Book Shelf - located at 162 W...
- Added: Jan 03, 2013
- Length: 40:08
- Purchases: 2
Marks was a British code maker in World War II. While still in his early twenties, in charge of wireless communication codes to espionage agents an...
- Added: Jan 04, 2012
- Length: 04:00
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
Poetry is an art form in itself and today we have a local authority on it. Ken McCullough is Winona's Poet Laureate. Throughout Ken's career he ha...
- Added: Mar 04, 2011
- Length: 24:29
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...
Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Apr 02, 2010
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Crossing the Border: a story or two
- Added: Nov 13, 2008
- Length: 03:49
A Muslim, a Christian and a Jew shed light on love, faith and understanding.
- Added: Jan 17, 2008
- Length: 24:34
Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.
- Added: Jan 08, 2006
- Length: 44:47
- Purchases: 19
A Parisian hobo finds himself sharing his home under the bridge with three children. But can he make their Christmas wish come true...?
- Added: Dec 22, 2005
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 4
