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Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, not even Al Capone was more notorious than two well-educated and highly intelligent Jewi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2024
  • Length: 29:28
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'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
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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
Caption:  2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
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
Caption: Poetry Out Loud Participants, Credit: Patty Polasky
A documentary piece featuring citation and commentary from high school students from Fosston, Clearbrook-Gonvick, and Trek North High Schools durin...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 11:09
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The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 5