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Maxim Loskutoff discusses his collection of short stories about the "hidden West" in "Come West and See." He also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
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In 2006, Robin Robertson's collection, SWITHERING, won the prestigious Forward Poetry Prize for best book. Now selections from that and his other f...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Aug 29, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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This audio anthology features readings by six poets, including a few who are part of the book co-edited by Cherokee writers Diane Glancy and Linda ...

Bought by WMUU-LP, KRZA, and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Rolling Stone book publisher Alan Rinzler at home in Berkeley., Credit: Marcos Nájera
The men in Zeta’s life. From family to friends to former lovers? You never know—some say Zeta was a constant chameleon in life, love, and the law. ...

  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 16:59
From: KQAL
Series: Art Beat
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200 years ago, she created one of the most famous monsters of all time, Frankenstein. On this episode of Art Beat we take you to Frankenfest, where...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Apr 19, 2018
  • Length: 25:56
  • Purchases: 1
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HOUR ONE: "Even Stranger Things" - Paranormal psychic spy hunters? It was a real U.S. Army project. Join us for an hour of even stranger things. ...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Poetry and music which takes refuge in imagination and mindfulness.

  • Added: Sep 09, 2017
  • Length: 55:17
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Poet and visual artist Bianca Stone talks about her various projects, from her first full length book SOMEONE ELSE'S WEDDING VOWS to her 2016 illus...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:55
Caption: GetPublished! Radio Host Gerald Everett Jones, Credit: La Puerta Productions
Here's Gerald's audio book review of Unpronounceable by Susan diRende.

  • Added: Mar 06, 2017
  • Length: 04:51
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Poetry and music which explores anger and frustration.

  • Added: Feb 04, 2017
  • Length: 01:00:40
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“A Time for Heroes” As the children prepare to fight the coming of the white rabbit, and the community struggles with how to protect our sons and ...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 31:54
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Poetry & Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry and music about our two heavenly friends.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 56:38
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“Down the Rabbit Hole” This happened in early October just a few weeks ago in a small coastal town. A boy named Fox, age ten, went missing from hi...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 30:40
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If you have been listening to the news since the highly contagious, Draco Incendia Trychophyton or “Dragonscale” began to spread, you know what kin...

  • Added: Jan 14, 2017
  • Length: 21:26
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Radio Curious revisits a conversation with Emily Dickinson about her life and times. She speaks to us from the person of actress Wendy Norris.

  • Added: Jul 19, 2016
  • Length: 29:01
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Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.

  • Added: Jun 22, 2016
  • Length: 06:17
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As part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we hear from Jonathan Stalling, the first westerner chosen as Beijing University's Poet-in-Reside...

Bought by KQED and XRAY.fm


  • Added: May 18, 2016
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
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Would you like to step into a painting? You can in Jacqueline West's book "The Shadows." It was the choice of the Girlfriends Book Club of Baltimor...

  • Added: May 10, 2016
  • Length: 17:35
Caption: "Dreaming of Lions: My Life in the Wild Places"
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing other creatures and other cultures, from the African savannah to her own backyard. You may...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2016
  • Length: 20:31
Caption: Poetry & Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry about the blues reflected by blues music.

  • Added: Feb 27, 2016
  • Length: 55:57
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A collection of random poems, with some allusions to teachers.

Bought by Royalton Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 13, 2016
  • Length: 01:00:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Swapping places with your identical twin little sister wasn't intended for life, but.... Author Ann Morgan reads from her new novel, Besides Myself...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: 01:40
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In this archive program, Ben Lerner, who was recently named a 2015 MacArthur "Genius" Fellow, discusses his first two books, THE LICHTENBERG FIGURE...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Jan 27, 2016
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Brian Laidlaw is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program in poetry. He lives in the Twin Cities, and teaches songwriting at McNally S...

  • Added: Dec 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:17