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Conversations: Jenny Qi
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with cancer biologist and poet Jenny Qi, about her poetry collection Focal Point, which examines science, disease, lo...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 29, 2022
  • Length: 32:59
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Victoria Chang
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Victoria Chang talks about approaching poetry from the business world, and the influence of her Taiwanese immigrant parents on her work. She ...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
La Burquenita & Women's History Month
From: Generation Justice Admin
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This week, Generation Justice proudly features seventeen-year-old poet, Sarita Sol Gonzalez, also known as “La Burquenita '' a Chicana, and feminst...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2022
  • Length: 30:25
The Write Question - Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Coast Salish author Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe discusses her brand new memoir, "Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of a Coast Salish Punk."

Bought by WETS, KNCT FM, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations: Ross Douthat
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat about his book The Deep Places, which chronicles his harrowing experience with chronic Lyme...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2022
  • Length: 50:44
Part Four: Shapeshifting
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Seals that can turn into women, men who transform into wolves… Stories about shape-shifting are among the oldest in the world. What are they trying...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WFAE, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Three: When Mountains Are Gods
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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Science tells us mountains are giant piles of rock, formed millions of years ago. But that's not all they are. This hour, we'll remember a time whe...

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 6
Part Two: Plants As Persons
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: Kinship With The More-Than-Human World
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If plants are intelligent beings, how should we relate to them? Do they have a place in our moral universe? Should they have rights?

Bought by KAZU Seaside, Calif., KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUHF, KSPB Pebble Beach, WHRV and more


  • Added: Mar 10, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 6
The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace
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Ghosts from the past stalk Europe again today in the wake of Russian tanks and missiles. To find a path forward, we might need to look back.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WHFR, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WLPR , KUNM and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 8
Conversations: Emily Maloney
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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Emily speaks with Emily Maloney about her new collection of essays, Cost of Living, which explores the American healthcare system and what it’s lik...

Bought by KWMR


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 33:59
  • Purchases: 1
669: The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace / 670: Jazz Migrations, 3/5/2022
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...

  • Added: Mar 04, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:59
So Now What? A Conversation with author Laura Munson
From: Lisa Lucca
Series: Live True with Lisa Lucca
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Lisa Lucca talks with NYT bestselling author, Laura Munson about life, creativity, and her book, Willa's Grove, which asks the timely question: So ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 55:00
Anthology: A Night of Storytelling, at No Name Bar. Part Two
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 52:17
Anthology: A Night of Storytelling, at No Name Bar. Part One
From: KQAL
Series: Culture Clique
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Today on Culture Clique we stopped by No Name Bar for a night of storytelling. The event was inspired by the popular podcast The Moth. Several diff...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2022
  • Length: 47:52
Poet and NAACP Image Award Winner Patricia Smith: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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For Black History Month, we'll hear from Patricia Smith, the author of eight poetry books and the 2021 winner of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize for li...

Bought by WDCB


  • Added: Feb 24, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Retired MN Bookseller Gary Goodman Reflects on 40 Years of Books
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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After almost 40 years in the used and rare book trade, Gary Goodman closed shop at St. Croix Antiquarian Books in Stillwater MN, and he’s just wri...

  • Added: Feb 19, 2022
  • Length: 12:52
More with Georgia Author Philip Lee Williams
From: New Letters on the Air
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Author of the 2022 book EDEN'S LAST HORIZON: POEMS FOR THE EARTH, Georgia nature writer and poet Philip Lee Williams discusses his earlier poetry b...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Native Guard
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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A Pulitzer Prize-winner for Black History Month.

Bought by KFCF FM, Spokane Public Radio, WPCA-LP, KMUN, KUOW and more


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 18
The Write Question - Jennifer Huang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Taiwanese-American poet Jennifer Huang discusses her debut collection, "Return Flight."

Bought by WETS, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 16, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Crafting Spaces: Josina Manu Maltzman on Carpentry and Writing
From: KFAI Minneapolis
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: Josina Manu Maltzman, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Josina Manu Maltzman
How can a profession in the building trades lend itself to the craft of writing? And what does building a house have to do with social justice orga...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2022
  • Length: 05:53
The Write Question - Danielle Geller
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Danielle Geller discusses her debut memoir, "Dog Flowers" - a story of returning to the Navajo reservation after her mother's death.

Bought by WETS, KVNF, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Jan 20, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Victoria Chang
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Victoria Chang discusses her new epistolary collection, "Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief."

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


  • Added: Jan 06, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Robin McLean
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Robin McLean talks about her new book, "Pity the Beast."

Bought by WETS, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
A Young Woman Risks Everything to Serve as a WWI Doctor in Lecia Cornwall's New Novel
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Lecia Cornwall is the acclaimed Canadian author of 15 historical romance novels. Her newest story is a WWI-set historical fiction about a female do...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2021
  • Length: 08:06
Ruth Ozeki's New Novel is Poignant and Inventive
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Ruth Ozeki is a novelist, filmmaker, and Zen Buddhist priest . She’s the award-winning author of three novels and her latest one is The Book of Fo...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 11:41

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