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Here's how a writer created the music magazine he wanted to read.

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


  • Added: Aug 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 5
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Some favorite poetry from this past season.

  • Added: Jun 27, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:22
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Poems and music about aging and lost youth.

  • Added: May 30, 2015
  • Length: 54:20
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A collection of "nostalgic" poetry and music.

  • Added: May 23, 2015
  • Length: 58:03
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Poems and music reflecting the poetry of baseball and golf.

  • Added: May 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:01:13
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Poetry reflecting various joyful experiences.

  • Added: May 01, 2015
  • Length: 01:00:45
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Poetry and music that incorporate numbers 1 through 5...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2015
  • Length: 58:15
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Poetry and music inspired by spring.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:06
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Poems and music exploring the experience of singing.

  • Added: Mar 14, 2015
  • Length: 54:21
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Poems about jazz artists (mostly).

  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 56:53
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Poetry and music about pleasurable escapes.

  • Added: Feb 21, 2015
  • Length: 53:14
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Poetry and music reflecting the almighty dollar.

  • Added: Feb 07, 2015
  • Length: 56:56
Caption: Will Rogers
This show examines the life and times of Will Rogers who said, "I never met a man I didn't like"

  • Added: Jan 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:38:06
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Poetry and music reflecting the new year.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2015
  • Length: 01:02:28
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Poems and music reflecting the particular energy of Sunday.

  • Added: Nov 15, 2014
  • Length: 50:44
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A full day reflected in poetry and music.

  • Added: Nov 08, 2014
  • Length: 01:01:57
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Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...

Bought by WART FM, WKAR, KMUN, and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Oct 16, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Poetry and Music, Credit: Donald Wendland
Poetry and music about moons, planets and gravity.

  • Added: Oct 04, 2014
  • Length: 56:48
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Poetry by Denise Levertov, Ina Coolbrith, Ofelia Zepeda, Christopher Marlowe and Gregory Djanikian. Music by Arvo part, Edgar S. Kelley, John Dow...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2014
  • Length: 57:56
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Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 3
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In 1999, The Band officially called it quits. In this hour long audio essay, Don McIver looks at the history of The Band to examine the nature of ...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2014
  • Length: 58:03
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Richard Powers is indulging us in a runaway riff on music, in a little room in the Boston Athenaeum, on the top of Beacon Hill, overlooking the Old...

Bought by WABE


  • Added: Apr 03, 2014
  • Length: 47:52
  • Purchases: 1
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The former host of NPR’s Talk of the Nation tells KVMR’s Brian Bahouth about reading poetry and other writing with Ensemble Galilei. A mix of word...

  • Added: Nov 21, 2013
  • Length: 09:13
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Holding on is part of what it is to be truly alive and to be in every moment, whatever it is. Holding on is part of being alive. And then there's...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 14, 2013
  • Length: 31:24
  • Purchases: 1
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Why do we expect ourselves to know things that we don't yet know? If we would truly trust the timing of our own evolution, then we'd stop expecting...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Aug 07, 2013
  • Length: 30:17
  • Purchases: 1