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Wendell Affield was forbidden to go into the chickenhouse. Once his mother passed away, he was able to enter. What he discovered was a treasure t...
- Added: Apr 30, 2018
- Length: 54:06
Michael McGriff talks about his artistic process and reads from two collections of poetry. He also discuses his translation of the Swedish Nobel Pr...
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KWMR, and KSJD
- Added: Aug 07, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Kevin Canty discusses his novel, 'The Underworld,' along with the nature of the human experience and Canty's own creative process. He also reads fr...
Bought by KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Aug 03, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Anthony Swann has been many things. A chef on a travel train, owner and operator of a jazz infused coffee shop, an art enthusiast, an avid world t...
- Added: Mar 03, 2017
- Length: 07:19
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
Donna Salli's first novel, A Notion of Pelicans, delves into the lives of five women as they each recall a memorable day in October many years ago.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Sep 23, 2016
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
A conversation with horror, sci-fi author Roy C. Booth.
- Added: Aug 11, 2016
- Length: 12:56
In today’s installment of the Untold Stories of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with local musician Teague ...
- Added: Oct 23, 2015
- Length: 29:44
Prisoners aren’t known for being emotional. But a program at a Maine jail has inmates sharing personal poems with each other.
Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: May 27, 2015
- Length: 05:43
- Purchases: 1
Arts and Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack continues with Part 2 of KVSC’s 36th Annual Trivia Weekend, Game of Trivia: A Quest for Futile Fac...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 04, 2015
- Length: 32:03
- Purchases: 1
An exploration of Brazil's diverse culture, complex past, artistic traditions, and modern aspirations.
- Added: Oct 18, 2014
- Length: 29:02
In the comic classic, MERE MORTALS by David Ives, a construction worker reveals he is secretly, actually the Lindbergh baby. Turns out his pals hav...
Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: 53:00
- Purchases: 9
Vanka is a tiny tale that has the feel of Dickens, about a 9-year-old orphan in Moscow, pining for his grandpa in the village, his only vestige of ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 26:29
We travel to Indianapolis, IN to explore the story of literary great Etheridge Knight, who published his first book, the soulful 1968 masterpiece ...
- Added: Jan 27, 2014
- Length: 54:09
- Purchases: 3
A National Poetry Month celebration featuring original works of poetry read by the authors—includes Jonathan Veach’s “Songsmithing,” Donelle Dreese...
Bought by KSFR
- Added: Mar 28, 2013
- Length: 18:24
- Purchases: 1
Mathew Dickman talks about Mayakovsky's Revolver and language driven poetry. He reads "Gas Station" out of the same collection.
Sasha Pimentel sha...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:30
Arthur Sze and hosts discuss the Santa Fe and Chihuahuan desert and how vastness comes through in the pace of poems.
Sze reads the Poem of the Wee...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 29:01
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...
- Added: Feb 27, 2013
- Length: 14:30
Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, talks about her unique upbringing, moving to New York with no money, and whether social media he...
- Added: Feb 17, 2013
- Length: 47:08
Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:08
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: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:32
Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 01:54
Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.
The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 01:44
Dean Bakopoulos discusses his first novel about fathers and sons in middle America's working class. [30:40]
Bought by WNJR, KPIP-LP, and Marfa Public Radio
- Added: Jun 29, 2012
- Length: 30:40
- Purchases: 3
