PRX - Pieces for Topic: Literature

Can't find it? Try Advanced Search
View by:

472 results


The Beat: Todd Boss "It Isn't All Fiddles"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
Piece image
Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 03:19
The Beat: MN Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen "Death Incorporated"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
Piece image
oyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Death Incorporated". You'll hear a reference to Emily Dickenson's...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh "Variations on O'Keefe's Pelvis"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
Piece image
Erin Lynn Marsh is a Bemidji, Minnesota poet. She's published her poetry in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine and Paper Darts. She's a gradua...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
The Beat: Ben Westlie "Sometimes When I'm Alone"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
Piece image
Ben Westlie graduated from Bemidji State University in 2006 with a BFA in creative and professional writing. He's published three chapbooks of poe...

  • Added: Feb 14, 2014
  • Length: 02:18
Amiri Baraka: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...

  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
An Interview with Charlie Price
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Piece image
YA author Charlie Price talks about and reads from his novel DEAD GIRL MOON. He also shares information about his teaching career, which included w...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KSJD


  • Added: Jan 23, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Tom Kizzia on "Pilgrim's Wilderness: A True Story of Faith & Madness on the Alaska Frontier"
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
Piece image
WTIP's Buck Benson spoke recently with Tom Kizzia, Anchorage Daily News reporter and author of "Pilgrim's Wilderness." Billed as "Into the Wild mee...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2013
  • Length: 21:44
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown On Shakespeare - "Proof of Bill's Translatability."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
Piece image
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2013
  • Length: 03:00
Legendary poet Gary Snyder
From: New Letters on the Air
Piece image
Winner of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets, Gary Snyder discusses the changing worlds of ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Aug 21, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
If You Could Be Mine
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Sara Farizan
A new novel by Sara Fraizan explores the issues of gender orientation. But, what sets this work apart from its predecessors is that it’s written fo...

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Aug 20, 2013
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1
006: Anne Swan and Reality TV
From: Emily Schultz
Series: Truth & Fiction
Piece image
Author and reality TV producer Anne Swan (The Real World, Real Housewives of Atlanta) talks about how reality TV is changing the way we write our n...

Bought by XRAY.fm


  • Added: Jul 09, 2013
  • Length: 48:10
  • Purchases: 1
Subversive Grace (With Music by Brian Vander Ark)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
This episode looks at the difference between conditional and unconditional compassion, and the relationship between compassion and healthy boundari...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 23, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Memorial Day in Poetry and Stories Narrated by Roy Trumbull
From: Roy Trumbull
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A program of poems by Carl Sandburg on the mortality of things, civilizations, and men. A Native American story, and the tale of the last buffalos

Bought by KMUN and KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 02, 2013
  • Length: 27:24
  • Purchases: 2
IBRT Season 2, Episode 7: 'Harry'
From: Icebox Radio Theater
Series: The Icebox Radio Theater
Piece image
The say Sunday at 11am is the most segregated hour in America. But one of the nice things about this land of freedom to worship is that there seem...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:00:02
Interview with Philip Levine. Sunday, March 5, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Philip Levine
Philip Levine talks about his relationship to New York City as well as Detroit's Diego Rivera murals and their impact on his youth and poetry. He...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:01
Interview with Luis Alberto Urrea. Sunday, March 25th, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
Interview with Mark Strand. November 11, 2012.
From: Words On A Wire
Series: Words On A Wire (Best Of)
Caption: Mark Strand
Mark Strand encourages a return to writing long-hand; he unveils his writing and revision processes. He reads "The Poems of the Spanish Poet" from ...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:30
Living Simply In A Complex World (with Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
Folk roots singer songwriter Joshua Davis joins Soulseeds Radio for an inspiring episode in which host Ian Lawton suggests listeners simply live th...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 28:23
  • Purchases: 1
Putting Fear In Perspective (with Seth Glier)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
Ian Lawton's theme in this episode of Soulseeds Radio explores putting fear in perspective. As Emerson said, "Do the thing you fear and the death o...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 1
Casting Your Whole Vote (With Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
Soulseeds Radio host Ian Lawton explores casting your whole vote -- not just voting once every four years, but letting your whole life, all your wo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:27
  • Purchases: 1
You've Gotta Have Faith (with Josh Rose)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
Ian Lawton looks at many sides of Faith -- taking power where you can control things in your life, surrendering where you can't control things in y...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 1
Soulseeds Radio: Living Hope (with Channing and Quinn)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
Piece image
Welcome to Soulseeds Radio with host Ian Lawton -- talking today about hope which is not just an idea, not just a philosophy, but something that's ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 16, 2013
  • Length: 28:40
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Silhouette of a Sparrow" by Molly Beth Griffin
Dan Sinykin gives us a succinct, clear, and intriguing synopsis of Molly Beth Griffin's coming of age novel.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 03:33
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Y" a book of poems by Leslie Adrienne Miller
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Y" by Leslie Adrienne Miller
Leslie Adrienne Miller is author of six collections of poetry including "Y," "The Resurrection Trade" and "Eat Quite Everything You See" from Grayw...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 05:14
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Mike Finley - "Is There NASCAR In Heaven"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
Piece image
Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:54

Narrow the results by Topics

Narrow the results by Formats

Narrow the results by Tones