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Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Roberto Tejada guides through an underworld of surveillance.
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Eric Amling remembers the death of a beloved celebrity and considers a world saturated in pharmaceuticals.
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Monica McClure imagines a prophet in the forest who collects the lives of men.
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Pérez portrays a person on a train fleeing from a past life.
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
For the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Joshua Clover offers to read poetry at the White House.
Bought by KENW, KHSU, KRZA, KMUD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Yusef Komunyakaa remembers a swimming hole frequented as a child.
- Added: Dec 30, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Rachel Galvin contemplates the politics of complicity.
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
John Yau meditates on mortality and the remembrance of the dead.
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Andrew Joron mediates on the cycle of the moon in language that shifts and slips in meaning.
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Margaret Noodin sings a poem in Anishinaabemowin and discusses Native American languages and heritage.
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KHNS, KHSU, KALW, and KENW
- Added: Nov 16, 2016
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 5
Dara Wier meditates on the mind’s need for security and sanctuary from a troubled world.
- Added: Nov 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
"The Road Back to Sweetgrass" is the One Community, One Book selection for Cook County this fall. Author and UMD American Indian studies professor ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2016
- Length: 10:49
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
J. Michael Martinez writes of love and the body through the language of the natural world.
- Added: Oct 07, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
We talk about National Poetry Month with Nathan Bergstedt of the Uncommon Loons and the Grand Rapids Players. Nathan is a writer, poet, and teacher...
- Added: Apr 22, 2016
- Length: 14:23
When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
Vicki Hendricks is a Florida writer and the author five noirs, MIAMI PURITY, IGUANA LOVE, VOLUNTARY MADNESS, SKY BLUES, CRUEL POETRY, and a collect...
- Added: Feb 23, 2015
- Length: 13:20
We begin the celebration of Women's History Month with a tribute to Maxine Kumin, who died on February 6, 2014 at the age of 88. A former Consultan...
Bought by KRZA, KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KQED
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Lillian Faderman's writes a "reconstructed memoir" about her mother's life as an immigrant factory worker and single mother during the Great Depres...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Feb 18, 2014
- Length: 27:52
- Purchases: 1
Emily Brisse's place based work has appeared in publications like Orion, The Writer's Chronicle, and Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. She teaches ...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 01:42
Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally k...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 01:53
Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 02:16
Marsh Muirhead, a writer, dentist, flight instructor, and much else besides, lives near Bemidji, MN on the banks of the Mississippi with his dog, S...
- Added: Feb 16, 2014
- Length: 02:47
