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Leslie Sainz: A New Voice in Contemporary Poetry
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Leslie Sainz, Credit: Hillary Dubie
Poet and 2021 NEA Literature Fellow Leslie Sainz discusses her creative process and how, as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, she uses poetry to na...

Bought by WRGY, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, and KECG


  • Added: Apr 23, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Tessa Hulls
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Artist and writer Tessa Hulls discusses her graphic memoir, "Feeding Ghosts."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 11, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
Dream-Inspired Poetry with Joan Gelfand
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Why are dream-inspired poems so powerful? We speak today with award-winning poet, author of multiple books, and committed activist, the dynamic Joa...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:58
The Write Question - Michael Finkel
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Michael Finkel discusses “The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession.”

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Clean Energy U.N. SDG #7
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.

  • Added: Mar 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
MN Reads: "Traveling in Wonder" by Autumn Carolynn
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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World traveler, author, and photographer Autumn Carolynn talks about her new book "Traveling in Wonder"

  • Added: Mar 07, 2024
  • Length: 07:24
UNITED NATIONS GOAL #5 GENDER EQUALITY
From: melodically challenged
Series: Saving the Planet: The United Nations Sustainability Goals
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Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
David Bowie
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Mar 02, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Art of Noise: Influence of Futurism on Music
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Feb 24, 2024
  • Length: 28:27
  • Purchases: 1
Watching TV on the Radio
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
Talkin' Trash
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 01:00:06
MN Reads: "Dreaming Our Futures" with Brenda J. Child
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Brenda J. Child talks about the new book (and new art exhibit) "Dreaming Our Futures"

  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 08:34
Whit Stillman, Episode 1: I'm Not Entirely Joking
From: KIOS-FM Omaha Public Radio
Series: The Entertainment
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This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:00
MN Reads: "Spirits Dancing" with Photographer Travis Novitsky
From: WDSE
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Photographer Travis Novitsky talks about his new book "Spirits Dancing"

  • Added: Jan 25, 2024
  • Length: 07:14
100 Years of Nonsense
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: A building in the Hatibagan neighborhood in North Kolkata, Credit: Sandip Roy
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...

Bought by WTJU


  • Added: Jan 23, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
  • Purchases: 1
The B-52s
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about "The Story of the B-52s: Neon Side of Town," the first critical biography of "the world's greatest party band," wh...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 27:45
  • Purchases: 1
Campbell Is Cooking!
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Robyn Benda of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN has the latest "ingredients" to make make a healthy "soup" for the mind this win...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2024
  • Length: 09:40
Meet Huascar Medina--the Poet Laureate of Kansas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Huascar Medina, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
We're celebrating poetry in this week's podcast. The first Latino and non-academic Poet Laureate of Kansas (and National Council on the Arts member...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Dream Sharing and Empathy
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Does dream sharing increase empathy and insight? Today meet two English professors who say, "Yes it does!" The Science and Art of Dreaming is their...

  • Added: Dec 04, 2023
  • Length: 53:01
High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the new book "High Bias: The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape," which explores the many ways that the humble...

Bought by Raven Radio


  • Added: Dec 02, 2023
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
Re-Sisters
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about Cosey Fanni Tutti's new book Re-Sisters, which intertwines her own life and work with that of electronic music pio...

Bought by Raven Radio and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Nov 18, 2023
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 2
What's Buzzing at Campbell?
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Campbell Library (East Grand Forks, MN) news on tap! Everything from glass etching to birds! Director Charlotte Helgeson has the spicy details!

  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 14:46
Pat Metheny
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about "Beneath Missouri Skies," a biography of jazz guitarist Pat Metheny's early years growing up in Lee's Summit, Miss...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2023
  • Length: 28:31

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