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Fady Joudah describes a car ride through a national park and observes wildlife, both living and dead.
- Added: Apr 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Shane McCrae imagines the life of the adopted son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
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
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 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
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
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
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
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
Lillian Yvonne Bertram meditates on conflicted romantic feelings during a summer spent in Maine.
- Added: Oct 03, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
With nearly a decade between his first short story collection, DROWN and his Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Jun...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 01:21
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
Minnesota author Cheryl Strayed joins Heidi Holtan to discuss her honest and raw new book.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 24, 2012
- Length: 26:27
- Purchases: 1
Travel offers new experiences; some more pleasant than others. Dottie Lou Norwood shares an unusual nightly ritual, Brittany Edwardes escapes schoo...
- Added: Apr 25, 2011
- Length: 29:00
Marissa Sellers wrote this poem during her trip to Rwanda in 2006.
- Added: Jun 19, 2007
- Length: 01:04
