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Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year.
We're closing out the year, as we usually do, with in...
- Added: Dec 25, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
George Saunders, the renowned short story writer, talks about his debut novel, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO, winner of Britain's 2017 Man Booker Prize for ...
- Added: Jun 07, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 24, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Multi-award winning short story writer, Amina Gautier, shares excerpts from her 2018 PEN/Malamud Award-winning, THE LOSS OF ALL LOST THINGS, as par...
- Added: Feb 10, 2022
- Length: 29:00
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
It’s hard to go anywhere on Cape Cod these days and not see litter on the side of the road or on hiking trails. Local poet Ralph Bousquet has start...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jun 06, 2019
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
We travel to the Virginia tidewater region with poet Dave Smith, who grew up along that coast. Though he has lived and taught elsewhere, his many b...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
Guest editor of BEST AMERICAN POETRY 2017, Natasha Trethewey talks about her her first creative non-fiction book, BEYOND KATRINA: A MEDITATION ON T...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Sep 08, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poet Scott Lowery shares his poem "Shawn" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Sep 06, 2017
- Length: 06:05
Author Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker reads "The Colfax Crew” an essay from the PEN Prison Writing Contest by Tim Boland of Minnesota Correctiona...
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 10:55
We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham shares stories about some of his influences, including the late poets Richard Hugo, William Stafford and...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Jennifer Sporcich lives in Minneapolis with her two dogs and two parakeets. She received a BFA from the school of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: :51
...To her late Eritrean-American husband, Ficre -- a painter, chef, and loving father -- in Elizabeth Alexander's new memoir, The Light Of The Worl...
- Added: Nov 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three children's picture ...
- Added: Nov 12, 2015
- Length: 02:02
Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 01:12
As spring showers are truly bringing May flowers to St. Cloud, Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack brings us an Untold Stories of Cent...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: May 08, 2015
- Length: 26:06
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 01:22
- Purchases: 1
James Siems is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. He likes crosscountry skiing and soccer. He recently wrote a poem ins...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
We pay tribute to Pulitzer Prize winner Claudia Emerson, the former Virginia Poet Laureate (2008-10) who died December 4, 2014. Emerson deftly port...
- Added: Dec 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 57:06
Cheryl Strayed's memoir, WILD: FROM LOST TO FOUND ON THE PACIFIC CREST TRAIL, took over twenty years to write and has since been selected by Oprah'...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KQED, WNJR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WJCU
- Added: Dec 11, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
