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On this episode, we talked about "Earlier," the new memoir by music journalist and musician Sasha Frere-Jones. We listened to some of his music, too.
- Added: Jun 01, 2024
- Length: 29:26
Heid Erdrich is Minneapolis' first poet laureate for the year 2024. She is Ojibwe, an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain band.
- Added: May 31, 2024
- Length: 05:08
Historian and writer Betsy Gaines Quammen discusses "True West: Myth and Mending on the Far Side of America."
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.
- Added: May 30, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
On this episode, we talked about the new book "Lit-Rock," a collection of essays that explore the many ways that literature and pop/rock music have...
- Added: May 25, 2024
- Length: 27:28
On this episode, we talked about the book "The Free Musics" by Jack Wright," one of America's foundational free improvisation artists who is still ...
- Added: May 18, 2024
- Length: 28:29
A public domain reading of Wordsworth's "I wandered lonely as a cloud" set to public domain jazz. The result was surprisingly good.
- Added: May 13, 2024
- Length: 03:52
On this episode, we talked about a new installment of the 33 1/3 Genre series that explores the short-lived but influential German musical style Ne...
- Added: May 11, 2024
- Length: 28:25
Author and dancer Georgia Finnegan talks about her new book "Grace & Grit: A History of Ballet in Minnesota"
- Added: May 09, 2024
- Length: 08:08
Poet and 2021 NEA Literature Fellow Leslie Sainz discusses her creative process and how, as the daughter of Cuban immigrants, she uses poetry to na...
Bought by KMUN, WMPG, WRGY, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WXAV 88.3FM Chicago and more
- Added: Apr 23, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 7
Artist and writer Tessa Hulls discusses her graphic memoir, "Feeding Ghosts."
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Apr 11, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.
Bought by KICI Iowa City
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: :49
- Purchases: 1
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.
- Added: Apr 01, 2024
- Length: :51
Why are dream-inspired poems so powerful? We speak today with award-winning poet, author of multiple books, and committed activist, the dynamic Joa...
- Added: Mar 25, 2024
- Length: 54:58
Michael Finkel discusses “The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession.”
Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio
- Added: Mar 14, 2024
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal number 7 – Affordable and Clean Energy.
- Added: Mar 08, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
World traveler, author, and photographer Autumn Carolynn talks about her new book "Traveling in Wonder"
- Added: Mar 07, 2024
- Length: 07:24
Welcome to this week’s melodically challenged. We continue our series on the U. N. Sustainable Development Goals with an hour dedicated to Goal nu...
- Added: Mar 06, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
On this episode, we talked about a recent book that gathers all of David Bowie's interviews with BBC television and radio into one handy and very r...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Mar 02, 2024
- Length: 27:45
- Purchases: 1
On this episode, we traveled back in time to early 20th. C. Italy, where the Futurists were dropping manifestos and proposing exciting new ideas th...
Bought by Raven Radio
- Added: Feb 24, 2024
- Length: 28:27
- Purchases: 1
In 1939 at the New York World’s Fair, television was introduced to the public for the first time. We’ve been hooked ever since! Welcome to this wee...
- Added: Feb 22, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
According to the Keep America Beautiful website, Americans generate 251.3 million tons of garbage per year and since 1960, the amount of waste gene...
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 01:00:06
Author Brenda J. Child talks about the new book (and new art exhibit) "Dreaming Our Futures"
- Added: Feb 08, 2024
- Length: 08:34
This is the first of five episode charting the life, career and influence of filmmaker Whit Stillman during the rise of a new American auteur movem...
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 54:00
Photographer Travis Novitsky talks about his new book "Spirits Dancing"
- Added: Jan 25, 2024
- Length: 07:14
Sukumar Ray is sometimes called the Edward Lear of Bengal. Abol Tabol his book of nonsense rhymes was part of my growing up. And I dare say every B...
Bought by WTJU
- Added: Jan 23, 2024
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
