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On this episode, we talked about YouTube music influencer Andrew Huang's foray into the music book world, "Make Your Own Rules,' a book packed with...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2024
  • Length: 27:27
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU and KVSC alumni Kenneth Watson. Watso...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
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We continue Native American Heritage Month with Sherwin Bitsui, who reads from FLOOD SONG, his collection of poetry that won the American Book Awar...

Bought by KMUN, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Alexander Chee is a careful craftsman of language. As we came to find out, when we talked to him from Argot Studios in NYC, he is as measured, unas...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 10:05
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Marianne Williamson has written six New York Times best sellers, including The Age Of Miracles and A Return To Love. Known in some circles as Holly...

  • Added: Aug 08, 2016
  • Length: 07:56
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We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRPI, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
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We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 2
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Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 52:19
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Features selections from past issues of Quiddity which include poems read by Andrew Kozma, Kate Mohler, and Susana Lang.

  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 16:51
Caption: CD Wright
CD Wright discusses the evolution of langauge in her poetry collections. Sasha Pimentel reads a Poetic License highlighting the power of line brea...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
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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: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:59
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Shanthi Siva is originally from India, and now lives in Rochester Minnesota with her family. She has a Masters Degree in English Language and Liter...

  • Added: Aug 27, 2012
  • Length: 01:46
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Will Weaver retired from 24 years as a professor at Bemidji State University to write full time. He has published something like a dozen books, fi...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:12
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Tomas Q. Morin
Poet, Scholar and Artist Tomas Q. Morin talks about his life and career, and reads a few of his own works.

  • Added: Mar 17, 2010
  • Length: 10:59
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Virgil's Georgics: an interview with poet David Ferry, who recently translated Virgil's second great poem, The Georgics. We're joined by Virgil sch...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Sep 06, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 1