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Celebrating the Month of our founder Cesar Chavez through his own words and with the people who were closer to him.
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 01:01
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...
Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more
- Added: Jan 31, 2019
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 11
Two stories of intimacy, shared through letters and interior monologues.
Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KUNM, WCPN, Spokane Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 16, 2019
- Length: 01:57:59
- Purchases: 21
A vivid portrait of a brilliant, troubled author.
- Added: Jan 15, 2019
- Length: 01:57:58
- Purchases: 13
Opiate addiction has become increasingly common in the commercial fishing industry. For one Massachusetts-born playwright, a brother’s death from a...
- Added: Dec 04, 2018
- Length: 09:30
Is Orlando bloom a good kisser? Is speaking in Elvish really that nerdy? Meet the teenagers who wished they could replace middle school with middl...
- Added: Oct 07, 2018
- Length: 36:13
This audio anthology features readings by six poets, including a few who are part of the book co-edited by Cherokee writers Diane Glancy and Linda ...
- Added: Aug 23, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Poet Susan Aizenberg discusses the use of fiction within poetry, admitting that she draws from real life, but notes that there is a distinction bet...
- Added: Jul 18, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Author and therapist Joyce Lynette Hocker discusses her memoir, "Trail to Tincup: Love Stories at Life's End." She also reads a short selection.
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
What if you have a story that's really complicated, and you have 546 tapes to listen to, and you get obsessed and don't know where to stop? All of ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KFAI Minneapolis, WRVO Public Media, KUT, WYSO and more
- Added: Jun 06, 2018
- Length: 57:59
- Purchases: 11
Bonnie Bolling, the mother of four grown sons, has been the editor-in-chief of VERDAD magazine since 2006, and now, she and her husband divide the...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our celebration of Women's History Month continues with Rachel Hall, whose own family’s history of strong women and wartime papers and photos insp...
- Added: Mar 29, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Vi Khi Nao’s poem inhabits the scene of a painting composed in 1998.
- Added: Mar 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
The voices of Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, Mirella Freni, Anna Netrebko, Kathleen Ferrier, Luciano Pavarotti, Roland Villazon paired with thought...
- Added: Feb 24, 2018
- Length: 58:48
Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017.
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:25
David Shook responds to a poem by Pablo Neruda with his own poem set in present-day Middle East.
- Added: Jan 25, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
David Lau combines opera, theater, and avant garde art in a poem inspired by student protests.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa meditates on political exile and personal loss.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 6
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
Mark Sullivan details the story of real life forgotten war hero, Pino Lella and draws parallels with his own life. He also reads a short segment fr...
Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: Oct 25, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Barbara Jane Reyes remembers and praises the life of Mary Jane Veloso, a Filipina domestic worker who was swindled into becoming a drug mule.
- Added: Oct 10, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2