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Tyrone Williams imagines a motorist’s confrontation with the police in a strip mall parking lot.
- Added: Mar 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Quraysh Ali Lansana recalls a compromised night on the U.S./Mexico border.
- Added: Mar 20, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Kaveh Akbar describes a nascent sexuality emerging in a life troubled by alcohol.
- Added: Mar 09, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Shane McCrae imagines the life of the adopted son of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
- Added: Mar 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Philip Jenks considers the word “dust,” from Biblical language to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
- Added: Feb 24, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Hannah Brooks-Motl reflects on the course of a life and its future
- Added: Feb 17, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Roberto Tejada guides through an underworld of surveillance.
- Added: Feb 13, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Eric Amling remembers the death of a beloved celebrity and considers a world saturated in pharmaceuticals.
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Michael Meuers has worked in public relations for the Red Lake Band of Ojibwe for 20+ years. His friendship with native elder Larry Stillday taugh...
- Added: Feb 03, 2017
- Length: 10:03
Monica McClure imagines a prophet in the forest who collects the lives of men.
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Chris Dombrowski talks with Sarah Aronson about 'Body of Water: A Sage, A Seeker, and the World's Most Alluring Fish,' which is part memoir, part r...
Bought by KWMR, KGLT, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more
- Added: Jan 30, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Garrett Caples pays tribute to poet Bill Berkson, a personal friend and a central figure in American poetry since the 1960s.
- Added: Jan 23, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Emily Pérez portrays a person on a train fleeing from a past life.
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
For the 2017 Presidential Inauguration, Joshua Clover offers to read poetry at the White House.
Bought by KENW, KHSU, KRZA, KMUD, New Hampshire Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 7
Author and game designer Kent Davis talks about books one and two in his 'A Riddle In Ruby' YA series.
Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more
- Added: Jan 06, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Yusef Komunyakaa remembers a swimming hole frequented as a child.
- Added: Dec 30, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Rachel Galvin contemplates the politics of complicity.
- Added: Dec 21, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
John Yau meditates on mortality and the remembrance of the dead.
- Added: Dec 19, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Andrew Joron mediates on the cycle of the moon in language that shifts and slips in meaning.
- Added: Dec 12, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Allen Morris Jones talks about and reads from his novel 'A Bloom of Bones'
Bought by KGLT, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Dec 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Beatrice Ojakangas is the author of 29 cookbooks and recognized in the James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame. Her new memoir, "Homemade," is about grow...
- Added: Dec 06, 2016
- Length: 18:13
Impressions of the onset of winter and snow, with music by Frederic Chopin.
- Added: Dec 03, 2016
- Length: 56:51
Pete Fromm, author of 'Indian Creek Chronicles,' talks about and reads two short passages from his second memoir, 'The Names of the Stars: A Life i...
Bought by KWMR, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KGLT, KCMJ Community Radio, KSJD and more
- Added: Nov 29, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
