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Episode 1 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates

From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates

Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...

Bought by WETS, WCPN, WFHB, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio and more

Added: Mar 02, 2006
Length: 01:04:02
Purchases: 13

A Poem Lovely as a Tree

From: Sarah Elzas

An exploration of Joyce Kilmer's most famous poem

Bought by KZYX, XRAY.fm, KUT, Prairie Public, KUFM - Montana Public Radio and more

Added: Jan 22, 2006
Length: 04:34
Purchases: 9

Joyce Kilmer and Trees

From: Sarah Elzas

A profile of Joyce Kilmer, author of Trees

Bought by WABE, KTNA, and WFIU

Added: Jan 22, 2006
Length: 04:27
Purchases: 3

Poetry for Peace (Peace Talks Radio Series)

From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes

Poets from across the country offer up their words on the subject of "peace" at a special reading held at the 2005 National Poetry Slam Chapionship...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Jan 18, 2006
Length: 29:00
Purchases: 1

How To Destroy A Book

From: Peter Crimmins

A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio

Added: Dec 29, 2005
Length: 05:33
Purchases: 4

RN Documentary: Imagination is the Instrument of Compassion

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Of the many books which have appeared in new genre which has been called ?post-9/11 fiction? one of the most striking is Jonathan Safran Foer?s ?Ex...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.

Added: Nov 30, 2005
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 1

Testing the Alarms

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

Post 9/11 fear divides communities.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston

Added: Nov 14, 2005
Length: 29:30
Purchases: 1

How Mulien Saves His Mother from Hades

From: KCUR

Taiwanese story that is the basis for Ghost Month in Buddhist Culture.

Bought by KZYX and PRX Administrator

Added: Oct 30, 2005
Length: 06:11
Purchases: 2

"The Woodpecker"

From: KCUR

Muskogee Creek Indian story called "The Woodpecker."

Bought by PRX Remix, KZYX, and KSUT

Added: Oct 30, 2005
Length: 03:12
Purchases: 3

La Llorona

From: KCUR

The Story of La Llarona

Bought by KZYX, KDNK, WXLV-FM, and PRX Administrator

Added: Oct 30, 2005
Length: 05:38
Purchases: 4

RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries

A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

Bought by KUER, KUT, KZYX, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Marfa Public Radio and more

Added: Oct 18, 2005
Length: 27:30
Purchases: 11

Cotopaxi Jewish Colony

From: KRCC-FM

A look at a community of Jewish immigrants

Added: Oct 07, 2005
Length: 07:30

Twilight's Breaking Dawn

From: Jacob C. Norman

Poetry by Jacob C. Norman set to music.

Added: Sep 17, 2005
Length: 09:48

Slam: Literary Fad or Movement

From: Don McIver

In the 80's Marc Smith invented the Poetry Slam, which has swept the country and created a spoken word revolution.

Bought by KRZA, Marfa Public Radio, KUT-HD, KUHB, WEKU and more

Added: Aug 29, 2005
Length: 58:54
Purchases: 7

Natural History of Everything

From: Merle Kessler

A look at a trend

Added: May 11, 2005
Length: 01:48

Jan On Jack

From: Marjorie Van Halteren

Jan Kerouac delivering her own poem to Jack over his own poem 30 years previously.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, and KGLT

Added: Apr 21, 2005
Length: 06:34
Purchases: 3

Verlaine in French and English

From: Jennifer Cecil Moore

Verlaine's poem "Colloque Sentimental" read in English and French.

Bought by WYSO

Added: Apr 12, 2005
Length: 02:40
Purchases: 1

Watching My Mother's Breath

From: Dale Short

A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life

Bought by KZYX

Added: Apr 08, 2005
Length: 05:22
Purchases: 1

Border Voices

From: Dan Epstein

Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti reads his work accompanied by saxophonist Charles McPherson at the Border Voices poetry fair in San Diego.

Bought by KZYX and WZBC

Added: Mar 29, 2005
Length: 27:59
Purchases: 2

The Poet and the Painter

From: Jackson Braider

The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC

Added: Mar 27, 2005
Length: 05:20
Purchases: 4

Transit Duchess

From: Marjorie Van Halteren

Inner thoughts riding bus late at night in New York

Added: Mar 19, 2005
Length: 02:10

Lapsarian Hummingbirds

From: Dale Short

A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WYSO

Added: Mar 16, 2005
Length: 04:18
Purchases: 2

RN Documentary: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?

From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry

Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR