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Live Wire! Radio - Episode 217 NEWSHOLE VERSION Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: NYTimes Best Selling Author Augusten Burroughs, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Author of the NYT best seller "Running with Scissors", AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS The Oregonians musical editor, RYAN WHITE Musical Guests, RADIATION CITY

Bought by KUT, KUOW, and KCPW Salt Lake City


  • Added: Jul 05, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 3
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 216
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Director of C.O.G., Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Director of C.O.G., a film based on the David Sedaris memoir, KYLE PATRICK ALVAREZ Poet and author of the recent Fall Ill Medicine, CARRI SEITSING...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR, Rhythm & News Service, and 90.5 WESA


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 216 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Director of C.O.G., Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Director of C.O.G., a film based on the David Sedaris memoir, KYLE PATRICK ALVAREZ Poet, and author of the recent Fall Ill Medicine, CARRI SEITSIN...

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: May 03, 2013
  • Length: 55:01
  • Purchases: 2
Husband and Wife Poets Terrance Hayes & Yona Harvey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Terrance Hayes and Yona Harvey
African-American poet and National Book Award-winning author of LIGHTHEAD, Terrance Hayes and his wife, Yona Harvey, author of the 2013 release, HE...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Apr 19, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
U.S. Poet Laureate, 2012-2013, Natasha Trethewey
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Natasha Trethewey
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...

Bought by KQED and WJCU


  • Added: Apr 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Poetry Month Celebration
From: NPR Illinois
Series: Quiddity
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
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 209
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Improvisational Comedian Reggie Watts, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
REGGIE WATTS - Improvisational comic/musician JESS WALTERS - Author JOSHUA JAMES - Singer/Songwriter TELEKINESIS - Seattle Indie Band

Bought by KALW, New Hampshire Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 7
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 208 NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: British Soul Singer Michael Kiwanuka, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
SYLVIE SIMMONS - Musical Journalist/Author MICHAEL KIWANUKA - British Soul Singer STACY BOLT - Essayist/Author

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 08, 2013
  • Length: 55:02
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat : Mike Forbes - "Coming Into Leaving"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:40
Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Interview with Mathew Dickman. Sunday, February 17th, 2013.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
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Mathew Dickman talks about Mayakovsky's Revolver and language driven poetry. He reads "Gas Station" out of the same collection. Sasha Pimentel sha...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Interview with Arthur Sze. Sunday, September 30, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Arthur Sze
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems. Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Interview with Mark Strand. November 11, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
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
Episode 001: Emily St. John Mandel
From: Emily Schultz
Series: Truth & Fiction
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Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, talks about her unique upbringing, moving to New York with no money, and whether social media he...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 47:08
Author Will Schwalbe on his NYT best-seller, "The End of Your Life Book Club"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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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
The Beat : Julie Gard - "Kalevala"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg - "Alternative Gifts"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:08
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Blue Trailings (Parker's Road Song)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann likes music, physical books, coffee houses and he lives with his cat, Samba, in Bemidji, Minnesota. Here, Swann presents his poem, "B...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 03:35
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 193 Encore - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Issa Rae, Creator of the web series "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Writer and Director of ParaNorman CHRIS BUTLER. Writer and web series director ISSA RAE. Musical Guests FINN RIGGINS.

Bought by KUT and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 18, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
  • Purchases: 2
Live Wire Radio - Episode 193 Encore
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Issa Rae, Creator of the web series "The Misadventures of an Awkward Black Girl", Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Writer and Director of ParaNorman CHRIS BUTLER. Writer and web series director ISSA RAE. Musical Guests FINN RIGGINS.

Bought by KUT, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KWMR, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 191 Encore - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Caption: Corin Tucker of Corin Tucker Band, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Acclaimed author ROB REID. Author CHELSEA CAIN. Musical guest JOE PUG. Sleater-Kinney alum's solo project, CORIN TUCKER BAND.

  • Added: Jan 11, 2013
  • Length: 54:59
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 204 - NEWSHOLE VERSION
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actor & Author Stephen Tobolowsky, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Stephen Tobolowsky - Actor & Author Paige Parker - Memoirist Luz Mendoza - Lead singer from Y La Bamba

Bought by KUOW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 54:58
  • Purchases: 1
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 204
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Actor & Author Stephen Tobolowsky, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
Stephen Tobolowsky - Actor & Author Paige Parker - Memoirist Luz Mendoza - Lead singer of Y La Bamba

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, KWMR, 90.5 WESA, and Rhythm & News Service


  • Added: Dec 21, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 5
Live Wire! Radio - Episode 203
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
Caption: Sexologist Cheryle Cohen Greene, Credit: Jennie Baker for Live Wire!
CHERYL COHEN GREENE - Sexologist & Author MATTHEW DICKMAN - Poet CHRISTINE MCKINLEY - Writer, Musician, Mechanical Engineer PURE BATHING CULTURE...

Bought by 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, 90.5 WESA, KWMR, Oregon Public Broadcasting, Rhythm & News Service and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 6
WorldCanvass Studio: Face to Face
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2012
  • Length: 56:10

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