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Randall Horton thinks about the ways we trap ourselves and others in boxes.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Vi Khi Nao’s poem inhabits the scene of a painting composed in 1998.
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
This episode features a conversation with Peter Heller about his sophomore novel, Celine. He also reads short selections from the book.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Feb 15, 2018
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 3
This week Colloquial explores Harley Warrick's Mail Pouch Tobacco, The Night Sky this Week, This Week's History Lesson and a reading from John Bur...
- Added: Jan 11, 2018
- Length: 11:14
Sueyeun Juliette Lee mediates on loss and its aftermath.
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Hoa Nguyen considers the objects of jokes and humor.
- Added: Oct 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Ocean Vuong remembers Tamir Rice, the 12-year old boy killed by police in Cleveland, OH in 2014.
- Added: Sep 12, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Five previously undiscovered Kurt Vonnegut short stories have been discovered in Indiana University's Lilly Library.
- Added: Sep 11, 2017
- Length: 07:04
Many of our listeners were moved by Monday's solar eclipse. We heard from Tom Salwasser who wrote about his experience in Remer Eclipse Story and ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2017
- Length: 10:41
From: New Letters on the Air
In the other half of this conversation with Dave Smith, the author of more than 20 books of poetry, essays, memoir and fiction, he talks about the ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 24, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Here's Gerald's audio book review of A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler.
- Added: Mar 05, 2017
- Length: 03:07
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
RadioWest and Plan-B Theatre Company bring you O. Henry's classic Christmas story "The Gift of the Magi." Originally published in 1905 and adapted ...
Bought by WUTC
- Added: Dec 09, 2016
- Length: 14:28
- Purchases: 1
A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WUTC, KRCB 104.9, KVMR, KMSU and more
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 21
In this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries, Haley meets with Drew Coomer, a poet, author, musician, and creator of The Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten R...
- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 05:59
Kathleen Finneran talks about the writing process of her memoir, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story, and the memories that inspired it.
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 13:44
Children's author Maurice Sendak was a big collector of Disney paraphenalia
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: :59
J. California Cooper loved playing with paper dolls--even as an adult.
- Added: Feb 08, 2016
- Length: 01:00
At the close of each year, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This poem was chosen not only for its ...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
On this episode of Art Beat we sit down with local author Catherine Alexander. We visit with Catherine about her novel, Frenchie, which tells the s...
- Added: Dec 17, 2015
- Length: 37:51
Sharon Chmielarz's poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines nationwide. She's also published travel memoirs and three childrens picture b...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 01:36
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat".
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 01:27
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 ...
- Added: Nov 25, 2015
- Length: 02:07
