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Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (promo)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason promo
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: :30
Pulitzer100: Natasha Trethewey On Native Guard (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with Pulitzer Award-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey - Maya Angleou's global legacy - Highlights from Fu...

Bought by WCNY, WTJU, WMUU-LP, and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 4
Pulitzer100: Natasha Tretheway On Native Guard (half)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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A conversation with former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer Prize-winning Natasha Trethewey.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KRZA, KRDP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Dec 09, 2016
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 10
Oh Freedom! #2016.01 - Ashley Bryan
From: Susan Dickson-Smith
Series: Oh Freedom!
Caption: Ashley Bryan
Author and illustrator Ashley Bryan talks about his new book, “Freedom Over Me: Eleven Slaves, Their Lives and Dreams Brought to Life,” his experie...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Oct 05, 2016
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
Augsburg Professor Bill Green Talks About Book Degrees of Freedom: The Origin of Civil Rights in Minnesota 1865-1912
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In this Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with Augsburg College professor Bill Green as he ma...

  • Added: Sep 21, 2016
  • Length: 28:04
Meet The Twin Poets Laureate of Delaware!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills
Poets and social workers, Nnamdi Chukwuocha and Albert Mills' primary audience have been Wilmington’s under served children.

Bought by WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and WNJR


  • Added: Feb 19, 2016
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Playwright Claudia Rankine has us board the bus for the Bronx
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine discusses her play The Provenance of Beauty: A South Bronx Travelogue

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KPVL, WNJR, and KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 4
PPW - Marquee: We Free Singers Be
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop
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Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...

Bought by KUNM and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 54:35
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
Art & Language
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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MK Asante reveals the formula for efficacious writing and acknowledges the many languages of art. In this acknowledgment, Asante shares his effort...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
Art & Emancipation
From: New Visions, New Voices
Series: The Buck Series
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Drawing parallels to some of the historical resistance movements of African-Americans, MK Asante offers five requisites for art. He maintains that...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 20, 2014
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 24: Reginald Dwayne Betts
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Prison Poetry Workshop
We sat with Reginald Dwayne Betts and listened as he shared his own story of incarceration and his ongoing process of becoming a writer and poet.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 12:41
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 23: The Poets of Cooper Street Correctional Facility
From: Narrative Arts
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Since 1996, the Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) has organized annual exhibits and led poetry workshop with inmates at Michigan's correctional f...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 11:25
PPW 22: Living in the D.: Shaun Moore-Bey
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Shaun Moore-Bey is a poet, activist, and regular on the Detroit spoken-word circuit. He is working to be a cultural force for his community.

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 06:21
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 21: Prison Creative Arts Project
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Prison Creative Arts Project
The Prison Creative Art Project (PCAP) brings together artist from inside and outside the prison walls of Michigan to create a vibrant arts communi...

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 12:30
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 20: Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Poet Cara Benson leads a powerful writing workshop at the Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility in Saratoga County, New York. We listen in as a group ...

Bought by WRGY and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 21:03
  • Purchases: 2
PPW 19: Patrick Mathieu
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Patrick Mathieu
Patrick Mathieu is a New York city based artist who majored in dance at City College of New York and had a successful career as a performer. Then, ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 09:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 18: Workshop with Judith Tannenbaum
From: Narrative Arts
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Judith has taught poetry in prisons across the United States and intensively at San Quentin and other California prisons through Arts-in-Correction...

  • Added: Feb 11, 2014
  • Length: 07:27
PPW 14: Lead Belly
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Lead Belly was born Huddie William Ledbetter near Mooringsport, Louisiana around 1889. We explore Lead Belly's life in and out of prison. Take a li...

Bought by WVIA, PRX Remix, WDNA, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 10:10
  • Purchases: 4
PPW 11: Broadside Press
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Broadside Press
Poet, publisher, editor, and founder of Broadside Press. Dudley Randall was born 14 January 1914 in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920 ...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 13:42
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 13: Workshop with Buzz Alexander
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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We asked poet Buzz Alexander of University of Michigan's Prison Creative Art Project to record a poetry workshop for us. Prison Poetry Workshop ha...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
PPW 11: Alabama Department of Youth Services
From: Narrative Arts
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We visited with youth at the Alabama Department of Youth Service in Mount Meigs, AL and met graduates of their program who have continued to write.

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:36
PPW 10: New Orleans
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Join the Prison Poetry Workshop as we travel to New Orleans and join a group of prison poets who are taking on Walt Whitman.

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 09: Workshop with Dwayne Betts
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
Caption: Dwayne Betts
We asked poet & writer Dwayne Betts to record a workshop for us. Take a listen. Prison Poetry Workshop has asked poets from across the country to r...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1