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'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...
- Added: Aug 14, 2023
- Length: 09:06
Book bans and challenges have been on the rise in the past few years. When BPL launched a free eCard to give out-of-state teens access to our eBook...
- Added: Jun 13, 2022
- Length: 25:25
Kelly Link combines the ordinary and the magical—with flair.
- Added: Oct 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Nothing is more powerful than the magic that comes from your mind, down your arm, through your fingertips, down your pen and onto the page. The Mar...
- Added: Dec 24, 2015
- Length: 19:59
What does it take to be a spy? We ask a real FBI agent and talk to writer Anthony Horowitz about his James Bond Jr.: Alex Rider in "Stormbreaker."
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 19:02
Four-time National Poetry Slam champion Taylor Mali connects stage and page.
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 3
For the first RadioActive podcast of summer 2013, new hosts Isaac Noren and Carlos Nieto bring you stories about gender and gender stereotypes.
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 13:07
When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...
Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 07:54
- Purchases: 2
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...
Bought by KCBX
- Added: Aug 20, 2013
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 1
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...
Bought by WJSU, KMXT, and NPR Illinois
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 3
This week it's stories about best laid plans, and how those plans go amiss. Stories by Wayne Ball, Peter O'Connell, and Mark Isbell. All stories ar...
- Added: Dec 25, 2012
- Length: :00
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 14:42
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...
- Added: Feb 08, 2012
- Length: 21:06
Poet Slayton Goodman, 17, is a junior at Kenwood Academy and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Epic Sound representing his hi...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:23
His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:26
Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:04
This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:08
An interview with Professor Robert Wood on straight edge---why he studies it, his book on it, and some of the complexities and details of the culture.
- Added: Sep 13, 2007
- Length: 11:27
- Purchases: 2
Rafe Esquith says America's public education system has failed kids, and that is why he can't. He teaches Shakespeare to fifth graders at one of th...
- Added: Jul 23, 2007
- Length: 54:00
Narration with vox pop interviews of kids and adults about the last Harry Potter book.
Bought by WXLV-FM and The PRX Podcast
- Added: Jul 19, 2007
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 2
- Added: Jul 17, 2007
- Length: 06:17
- Purchases: 1
An Interview With Christopher Gutierrez, Straight Edge Writer and Spoken Word Artist
Bought by KUNM, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WXLV-FM
- Added: May 18, 2007
- Length: 10:50
- Purchases: 3
There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...
- Added: Mar 22, 2007
- Length: 02:26
