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Revisiting Ecopoet Camille T. Dungy
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Camille T Dungy, Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Ecopoet and two-time NEA Literature Fellow Camille T Dungy discusses how history and race complicates nature writing

Bought by KECG, WSLR, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Apr 19, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Poet Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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National Poetry Month continues with this "Classic" program featuring our current U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón (lee-moan). In this 2020 reading at ...

Bought by WNMU-FM and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 136: Michael Lewis on What Makes Some People Irreplaceable , 4/16/2023
From: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
Series: Kelly Corrigan Wonders
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What makes someone impossible to forget?

  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 59:08
An Hour of Storytelling - Easter Stories from Dolores Hydock and Rev. Robert B. Jones & The Shiny
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A terrific story from Alabama storyteller Dolores Hydock plus a musical treatment from the wonderful Detroit musician Reverend Robert B Jones. All ...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KSJE, KKRN, and WVPE


  • Added: Apr 13, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 4
The Apple Seed - Classic Myths
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, the mythologies of cultures from all over the world can help teach us about what people have been thinking of, wha...

Bought by Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WYAP, KTXK, KCNP, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7
Writing Through (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KHEN-LP, KCHW, and WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 5
Writing Through (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WFHB, KVSC, WRMU, Harford Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 8
Writing Through (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WTJU, WMUU-LP, WRST-FM Oshkosh, KXCV and more


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 7
Writing Through (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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What do the mythological Chimera and motherhood have in common?

Bought by KXCV and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2023
  • Length: :30
  • Purchases: 2
The Apple Seed - The Nightingale
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, how do you think your life would be if you got everything you wished for? You'll hear an old folk tale about a sto...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, KKRN, KSJE and more


  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 52:49
  • Purchases: 7
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 31:01
The IdeaSphere
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
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Author Anne Riley is not about to be stereotyped. Although she is a successful fiction writer, she has branched out into science, philosophy and dr...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
2023-04-02 Why Poetry Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2314: Why Poetry Matters, 4/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
The Apple Seed - Fire Fire Pants on Liar
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode of the show, a silly story from the great West Virginia tall tale teller, Bil Lepp. It's a story called Fire! Fire! Pants on Li...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, and WVPE


  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Filmspotting 913 (03/24/23): Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
From: WBEZ
Series: Filmspotting (weekly series)
Caption: Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies
The new book from film writer Kristen Lopez asks, “But Have You Read The Book?” Kristen joins Adam and Josh for a conversation about books they hav...

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  • Added: Mar 24, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 12
The Apple Seed - Blonde Beautiful and Bubbly
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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On the next episode, sibling relationships can be among the most important we have, but they don't come without sibling rivalry or jealously. We're...

Bought by KCNP, KTXK, KKRN, KSJE, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 6
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
A Personal History of Modern Ireland with Fintan O’Toole
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
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We talk with Fintan O’Toole about his scathing — and tender — personal history of modern Ireland, We Don’t Know Ourselves. Then we hear Seamus Hean...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:01
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
The Untold Story of Kenneth Watson and the 12 Faces of Sober
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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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
Life Without Boundaries (hour/no bb or bed)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KHEN-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Royalton Community Radio, KCHW and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 52:00
  • Purchases: 6
Life Without Boundaries (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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19th and 20th century poet, Alice Meynell–a.k.a. “the penciling mama”--described motherhood as “life without boundaries.”

Bought by Kansas Public Radio, KMUN, WRMU, WFHB, KVSC and more


  • Added: Mar 03, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10

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