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Andrew Zawacki meditates on the difficulty of writing a personal poem after the birth of his daughter.
- Added: Jun 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Hayan Charara considers how the world would be different today if certain historically significant events had not taken place in the late 1990s.
- Added: May 25, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s.
Bought by KALW, KHSU, KENW, and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: May 18, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Joyelle McSweeney thinks about various forms of infection and contagion facing the human
race.
- Added: May 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son.
- Added: May 03, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Timothy Yu meditates on perceptions of race, on television and in social media.
- Added: Apr 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship.
- Added: Apr 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
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
Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film.
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
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
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
