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We continue our month-long series that features current State Poets Laureate with Alberto Ríos, named Arizona's inaugural Poet Laureate in 2013. In...
- Added: Aug 14, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Joaquín Zihuatanejo discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas. He also talks about his early life growing up without his father ...
- Added: Jun 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
From: New Letters on the Air
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Med...
- Added: Sep 26, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Carmen Giménez Smith reads a poem in response to a photograph by the 1970s East Los Angeles art collective Asco.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
The National Book Award winner talks about author Julia Alvarez, Oscar Wao, and the wonder of reading.
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 24:59
National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with a look at Puerto Rico’s culture and stories through the eyes of the late Judith Ortiz Cofer. In the...
Bought by New England Public Media
- Added: Oct 12, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...
Bought by RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Sep 20, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia -- Violent TV turning viewers o...
Bought by WNMU-FM
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: :29
- Purchases: 1
Learning lessons on immigration in one of the nation's largest detention centers -- Tracking poachers in Appalachia -- Violent TV turning viewers o...
Bought by WCNY, WCWP, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 9
Francisco Aragón describes a threatening incident against a college student after the 2016 election.
- Added: Jul 25, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Juan Delgado describes a dangerous journey by a series of freight trains that migrants from Central America use to reach the U.S. border.
- Added: Jun 26, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Javier Zamora describes his journey as a young migrant crossing the desert into the U.S.
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Carmen Giménez Smith talks poetry, politics, and feminism, and reads from 'Milk and Filth.'
Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KSJD and more
- Added: Oct 24, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 8
As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 28:59
-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...
- Added: Sep 15, 2016
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 2
Considered one of the greatest Argentinian poets of the first half of the 20th century, Alfonsina Storni, along with Frida Kahlo and Virginia Woolf...
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 59:42
Book Club for Kids goes to LA for a discussion of Roald Dahl's first book for kids "James and the Giant Peach." Public radio legend Cash Peters is ...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 21:34
With nearly a decade between his first short story collection, DROWN and his Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Jun...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
The new poet laureate of the United States and two-time National Endowment for the Arts fellow calls for everyone’s heart to speak out.
Bought by KPIP-LP, KFCF FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WLPR , KPVL and more
- Added: Sep 21, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 7
In his recent book, Speaking Wiri Wiri, poet Dan Vera brings light and often laughter to the immigrant experience.
- Added: May 05, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
Brando Skyhorse had a childhood no one could make up. His memoir allowed him to create order from the chaos.
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 29:29
- Purchases: 3
A tribute to Eduardo Galeano , he passed on April 13, 2015, this interview originally aired Sep 2009 but still relevant today.
Eduardo Hughes Gale...
- Added: Apr 16, 2015
- Length: 27:57
Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
