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Good Samaritan
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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The story behind the coinage of the common expression "good Samaritan."

  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:03
Best Laid Plans
From: Chrysti M. Smith
Series: Chrysti the Wordsmith
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A discussion of the origin of the expression "the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and KHSU


  • Added: Apr 15, 2005
  • Length: 02:02
  • Purchases: 2
Verlaine in French and English
From: Jennifer Cecil Moore
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Verlaine's poem "Colloque Sentimental" read in English and French.

Bought by WYSO


  • Added: Apr 12, 2005
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 1
Sor Juana Inez de la Cruz
From: Radio Arte
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If she were a lesbian, there wouldn't be anything wrong with that, right?

Bought by WGDR


  • Added: Apr 11, 2005
  • Length: 06:43
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Poet Michael S. Harper on the Poet's Art
From: Modern Language Association
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Michael S. Harper talks about what he teaches in his poetry classes and reads some his favorite poems.

Bought by WLIW, KUER, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 09:54
  • Purchases: 8
The Tale of Despereaux
From: Vermont Public
Series: Camel's Hump Radio
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He was a mouse deeply in love with a human princess named Pea, which presents some serious problems but makes for a great story!

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KTNA, and KUHB


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 28:17
  • Purchases: 5
Watching My Mother's Breath
From: Dale Short
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A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Apr 08, 2005
  • Length: 05:22
  • Purchases: 1
Quilting the Black-eyed Pea
From: With Good Reason
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Poets Nikki Giovanni and Lucinda Roy discuss their roles as African American poets in contemporary America and share personal visions of the "Middl...

Bought by KPVL and WCSU-FM


  • Added: Apr 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:51
  • Purchases: 2
LIVE at the Writers House: Writers who work at Penn
From: WXPN
Series: LIVE at the Writers House
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This edition of LIVE at the Writers House features poets and writers from the University of Pennsylvania community.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 59:01
What's the Word? Poetry in Performance
From: Modern Language Association
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From Homer to slam, the special appeal of poetry in performance.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 20
What's the Word? Chinese Women's Poetry
From: Modern Language Association
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A celebration of Chinese women poets.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WCPN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 30:03
  • Purchases: 11
Border Voices
From: Dan Epstein
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Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his work accompanied by saxophonist Charles McPherson at the Border Voices poetry fair in San Diego.

Bought by KZYX and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 29, 2005
  • Length: 27:59
  • Purchases: 2
The Poet and the Painter
From: Jackson Braider
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? Literature of the Holocaust
From: Modern Language Association
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Memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction about the Holocaust.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFSR and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
What's the Word? Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust
From: Modern Language Association
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Fiction and a memoir by child survivors.

Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBYS 88.3 FM, WXDU and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 8
1999 Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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ondaatje reads great poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Amselm Hollo - Big Shoes
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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New American Poet Anselm Hollo reads his anti-Nike poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Carl Rakosi - Satyricon
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Rakosi reads incisive political critique

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1986 William S. Burroughs - Dr. Benway
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Burroughs reads the provocative Dr. Benway bit

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
1985 Amiri Baraka - Why's Wise
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2

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