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Last week, I introduced you to Kate Schapira, a writer who’s been listening to people’s climate anxieties since 2014. She sets up a booth in public...
Bought by KMXT, KICI Iowa City, and WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Jun 06, 2020
- Length: 56:34
- Purchases: 1
An intimate conversation with poet Alice Notley at her home in Paris. Produced by award-winning producer Marjorie Van Halteren.
- Added: Apr 11, 2020
- Length: 34:02
Award-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander talks movingly about her memoir
"The Light of the World" about her husband's sudden death at age 50.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 29:00
Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 53:46
This is a series of quotations from women who were passionate about their politics, power and immortality. They sought justice, equality, knowledge...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 2
In 2009 Shaun Usher began a blog to showcase correspondence that he felt deserved a wider audience. The blog quickly became popular and widely shar...
- Added: Jun 20, 2014
- Length: 13:31
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
The smell of a book can like that of a lover - musky and old with experience, brand new, immature and innocent. Or, knowledgeable and hard-covered....
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio
- Added: Nov 09, 2012
- Length: 06:31
- Purchases: 1
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 14, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 26:52
Deb Dunn’s second love, after her husband, was teaching marine biology. But about five years ago, she had to give it up.
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 05:30
Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
Erin Malone’s poem “Suspect” explores how one new mother feels about her body, leading literary producer Elizabeth Austen to consider some assumpti...
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 05:21
Poet Erin Malone reads “Hush,” a poem sparked by watching her son discover the power of naming what he sees. The poem prompts KUOW’s literary produ...
- Added: Aug 17, 2009
- Length: 06:13
If you take a bus ride this holiday season, it's probably just to get where you need to go. But when Kath Weston travels on buses, it's usually pa...
- Added: Dec 03, 2008
- Length: 03:45
- Added: Apr 19, 2008
- Length: 08:16
- Purchases: 1
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
- Added: May 20, 2007
- Length: 06:55
- Added: Mar 02, 2007
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Mar 02, 2007
- Length: 29:02
- Purchases: 1
A cold, rainy, winter night in Los Angeles and a friend comes over late to see you. There's something she needs to talk about. You give her a gla...
Bought by KUNM
- Added: Jan 12, 2007
- Length: 16:37
- Purchases: 1
Imagine yourself in a bar, the sort of old fashioned place with dark wood and red leather booths and the ghosts of a million cigarettes. You order...
Bought by KUNM and PRX Administrator
- Added: Jul 13, 2006
- Length: 18:17
- Purchases: 2
93-year-old Clive Haswell is a poet who spent his youth riding the rails and playing poker
Bought by WDET Detroit Public Radio
- Added: Apr 28, 2006
- Length: 05:33
- Purchases: 1
