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Episode #2 takes listeners on several poetry journeys: to Africa with James Baldwin and on an interplanetary rocket-poem trip with Allen Ginsberg a...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, KFCF FM, KUPR low power FM, WNMU-FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more
- Added: Apr 17, 2014
- Length: 21:26
- Purchases: 17
Episode #1 explores how poetry enables people to channel the voices of others and features excerpts from Studs Terkel’s interviews with Elma Stucke...
Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUPR low power FM and more
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 15:00
- Purchases: 20
In December at Schoolcraft Learning Community near Bemidji student teacher Anna Brown worked with Sara Breeze's 6th and 8th grade classes writing p...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:26
In December at Schoolcraft Learning Community near Bemidji student teacher Anna Brown worked with Sara Breeze's 6th and 8th grade classes writing p...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 01:46
Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...
- Added: Feb 15, 2014
- Length: 02:10
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "The Assumption." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota ...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:09
The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 03:45
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:12
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:24
oyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Death Incorporated". You'll hear a reference to Emily Dickenson's...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 02:07
Professor Daniel Shea shares the story of Pearl Curran, who, beginning in 1913, used a Ouija board to transcribe novels, plays, essays, and poetry ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 13:35
- Purchases: 1
Under longtime director J. Edgar Hoover, for decades FBI agents obsessively read - and even imitated - African-American writing. Dr. William J. Max...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 30, 2013
- Length: 11:04
- Purchases: 1
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Kristen Egan walks us through a creepy utopian novel from 1915, and explains why environmentalism and eugenics went hand in hand in the early 20th ...
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Radio Newark, PRX Remix, and KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Oct 07, 2013
- Length: 06:50
- Purchases: 4
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Sep 07, 2013
- Length: 01:38
Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...
- Added: Jun 22, 2013
- Length: 28:02
Natasha Trethewey is currently serving as both the Poet Laureate of the United States and of her home state of Mississippi. Trethewey discusses he...
- Added: Apr 03, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Mystery writer Laura Lippman talks about the terrifying brilliance of Edgar Allan Poe and his classic short story, "The Fall of the House of Usher"...
Bought by KPIP-LP, KMXT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Oct 26, 2012
- Length: 29:32
- Purchases: 3
Mary Finch on books.
- Added: Sep 06, 2012
- Length: 02:56
Songwriter Sean Storts discusses writing songs inspired by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' graphic novel Watchmen. Written and performed for the mon...
- Added: May 09, 2012
- Length: 05:00
A new chapter in the Godfather will be published later this year. The author speaks with us about the experience, what's in store for the Corleone...
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
Reality and illusion are often hard to sort out; especially when someone from India is adept at infusing others with illusions.
- Added: Mar 02, 2012
- Length: 15:21
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Rita Dove talks about her writing with a focus on her most recent book of poems, Sonata Mullatica. [30:44]
- Added: Feb 29, 2012
- Length: 30:45
- Purchases: 2
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 21:06
Not commonly known, John Wilkes Booth had been part of a long-standing conspiracy to kidnap Lincoln before he shot the president in Ford's Theater.
- Added: Sep 12, 2011
- Length: 28:59
