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US Poet Laureate Ada Limón
From: New Letters on the Air
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For National Poetry Month, we'll hear early work by our current U.S. Poet Laureate, Ada Limón. The author of six poetry books, including the 2022 c...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio) and KMUN


  • Added: Apr 17, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Christopher Bollen discusses "The Lost Americans"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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When the lifeless body of Eric Castle, a weapons technician for a major American defense contractor, is found under his hotel balcony, both his emp...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2023
  • Length: 31:01
2023-04-02 Why Poetry Matters
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio), KSKQ, KMUN and more


  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 8
2314: Why Poetry Matters, 4/4/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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Are poems valuable because they do something for us, or are they gloriously useless?

  • Added: Mar 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
Feminist Poets: Past American Voices
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
The Untold Story of Kenneth Watson and the 12 Faces of Sober
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU and KVSC alumni Kenneth Watson. Watso...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2023
  • Length: 29:47
2309: Montaigne and the Art of the Essay, 2/28/2023
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk: Weekly
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How did Michel de Montaigne (born February 28, 1533) invent a new way to do philosophy?

  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 54:00
2023-02-26 Montaigne and the Art of the Essay
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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If philosophy is a way of life, what kind of writing best helps us live it?

Bought by KMUN, KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KTSW 89.9, GCR (Global Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Feb 27, 2023
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 11
William Kotzwinkle discusses "Bloody Martini"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Award-winning and bestselling author William Kotzwinkle is back with the second in the darkly comedic Felonious Monk series featuring Tommy Martini...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2023
  • Length: 28:41
“The Future is Disabled”: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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“At the core of my work and life is the belief that disabled wisdom is the key to our survival and expansion,” shares Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasi...

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN and more


  • Added: Jan 11, 2023
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 7
In Good Faith - Dr. Jean P. Kelly & Danny Duncan Collum
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: In Good Faith
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Personal accounts on increased devotion after life experiences elicited change

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Dec 28, 2022
  • Length: 52:55
  • Purchases: 1
Las Cantigas de Santa Maria 2022, a Musical Biography of King Alfonso X
From: DEBRA BOLTON
Caption: King Alfonso X statue, Credit: web
Cantigas de Santa Maria, an exploration of songs and poems dedicated to the Virgin Mary and musical biography of King Alfonso X of 13th century Spa...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 12, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:52
  • Purchases: 1
Hunting the Moon
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
The Untold Story of Candace Cahill's Memoir Goodbye Again
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack talks with SCSU alumna and author Candace Cahill about...

  • Added: Nov 24, 2022
  • Length: 27:19
The Untold Story of Mississippi River Mayhem with Author and Historian Dean Klinkenberg
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dives into the Mississippi River and all its mayhem wi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
Desolation Peak
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
JUMPING AT SHADOWS
From: melodically challenged
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Out in the Cold
From: melodically challenged
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
On All Fours
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
National Writers Series: Fredrik Backman
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Doug Stanton talks with author Fredrik Backman

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNED Buffalo, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 4
The Cat's Out of the Bag!
From: melodically challenged
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Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” Welcome to anoth...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
How many ways can we ‘Spell Heaven’?
From: Out in the Bay - Queer Radio from San Francisco
Caption: Pacifica Municipal Pier, Credit: Toni Mirosevich
How do we find human connection? Being “in with the out crowd?" Author and poet Toni Mirosevich finds peers on the pier. She reads from her latest ...

Bought by WORT


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:50
  • Purchases: 1
Distance
From: melodically challenged
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Facetime!
From: melodically challenged
Series: WELCOME TO SPRING 2024!
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George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Kim Stanley Robinson: Writing the Future Story People Want
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Can a novel become a catalyst to help us address impending climate disaster? That’s one question posed by the legendary Kim Stanley Robinson, in hi...

Bought by KWMR, RadioFreePalmer, RadioStPete Florida, KMUN, KDNK and more


  • Added: Sep 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 6

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