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Poem for Today, March 4 2005
From: Gordon McDougall
Series: Poem for Today
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Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya and Elizabeth Smart

  • Added: Mar 10, 2006
  • Length: 04:30
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
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Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

Bought by KFCF FM, 90.5 WSNC, KWMR, WJSU, KZYX and more


  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? Petrarch and Love Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A look at how many contemporary ideas about love come from the love sonnets of fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

Bought by KVSC, WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
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A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4
THE FAMILY UNDER THE BRIDGE
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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A Parisian hobo finds himself sharing his home under the bridge with three children. But can he make their Christmas wish come true...?

Bought by KZYX, WSKG, KZYX, and KRPS


  • Added: Dec 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 4
Interstate
From: Barrett Wolf
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Narrative by Biker/Poet J. Barrett Wolf

  • Added: Nov 21, 2005
  • Length: 01:27
North
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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Alvin has been on a short leash his whole life, and at twelve he’s sick of it. So when he’s assigned a report on his hero - Matthew Henson, the Afr...

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Nov 18, 2005
  • Length: 28:28
  • Purchases: 1
"The Woodpecker"
From: KCUR
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Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT


  • Added: Oct 30, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 3
History's Greatest Love Affairs: Abelard and Heloise
From: Ed Kliman
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The timeless love story of Abelard and Heloise, complete with period music.

Bought by KZUM and Public Interactive


  • Added: Sep 12, 2005
  • Length: 20:49
  • Purchases: 2
Daisy & the Doll/Alec's Primer
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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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
What's the Word? Poetry in Performance
From: Modern Language Association
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From Homer to slam, the special appeal of poetry in performance.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 20
1976 Allen Ginsberg - End Vietnam War
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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great pro peace performance by Ginsberg

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
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A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55
Queeriosity
From: outLoud Radio at Youth Radio
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Amazing young poets explore attraction and identity through the spoken word.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, WGDR, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 11
9/11 Rewrite: Memoir in a Time of Violence
From: Laura Jackson
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"What does it mean to fashion a self in the midst of a violent world"?

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 20, 2004
  • Length: 14:30
  • Purchases: 1

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