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Poems and music exploring the experience of singing.
- Added: Mar 14, 2015
- Length: 54:21
Poems about jazz artists (mostly).
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 56:53
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...
- Added: Jan 30, 2015
- Length: 01:24
Award-winning nature writer Gary Ferguson talks about and reads from his memoir 'The Carry Home: Lessons from the American Wilderness.'
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Jan 05, 2015
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 3
Poetry and music reflecting the new year.
- Added: Jan 03, 2015
- Length: 01:02:28
In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?
- Added: Dec 24, 2014
- Length: 29:40
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...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 01, 2014
- Length: 04:17
The writer that so many other writers are talking about is the Indian-born New Yorker, Akhil Sharma. His novel is “Family Life,” a faithful recount...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Apr 23, 2014
- Length: 27:46
- Purchases: 1
Vanka is a tiny tale that has the feel of Dickens, about a 9-year-old orphan in Moscow, pining for his grandpa in the village, his only vestige of ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 26:29
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:12
What is the human hunger Pope Francis has confirmed – not just Catholic or churchy — all across the world?
- Added: Mar 25, 2014
- Length: 58:37
Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
A National Poetry Month celebration featuring original works of poetry read by the authors—includes Jonathan Veach’s “Songsmithing,” Donelle Dreese...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 18:24
- Purchases: 1
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:30
Will Schwalbe wrote the best-selling book, "The End of Your Life Book Club," a memoir of reading with his mother during the last two years of her l...
- Added: Feb 11, 2013
- Length: 21:20
"It’s easier to deal with a woman who is compliant and sweet and sunny and nice and non-confrontational."
Interview by Jason Feifer // NYC hotel i...
Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KFAI Minneapolis, and PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 06:46
- Purchases: 4
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...
- Added: Sep 12, 2012
- Length: 02:16
Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 01:57:35
Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]
- Added: Mar 09, 2012
- Length: 30:12
- Purchases: 2
Guests include: Filmmaker Todd Haynes, Author Anne Lamott and musical guest Sophe Lux.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Apr 28, 2011
- Length: 58:57
- Purchases: 1
Heidi Holtan talks with Kao Kalia Yang about her memoir that is not just a self examination. She examines the history of the Hmong people both in ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 24, 2011
- Length: 15:35
- Purchases: 1
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
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
Jane Hirshfield acknowledges a kind of human physics in her poem, “For What Binds Us.”
- Added: Aug 24, 2009
- Length: 05:53
