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Poems and music exploring the experience of singing.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2015
  • Length: 54:21
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Poems about jazz artists (mostly).

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 56:53
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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
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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
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Poetry and music reflecting the new year.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:28
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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
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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
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I'm sorry for hurting you.

  • Added: May 01, 2014
  • Length: 04:17
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...

Bought by WABE, XRAY.fm, and WJCU


  • Added: Feb 06, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal
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
Caption: Mark Strand
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
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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
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"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
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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
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:35
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Laura Lippman talks about crime fiction, journalism and the social novel. [30:30]

Bought by KPIP-LP and KVSC


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 30:12
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Todd Haynes, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
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
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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
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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
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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
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Jane Hirshfield acknowledges a kind of human physics in her poem, “For What Binds Us.”

  • Added: Aug 24, 2009
  • Length: 05:53