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The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
The Poet Within
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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This time on The Children’s Hour, New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp inspires us to find our poet within, putting our feelings, thoughts, stories...

Bought by WGTE Public Media, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), KMXT, Allegheny Mountain Radio, RadioFreePalmer and more


  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 9
3 Shades of Blue
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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In this episode, we talked about the new book "3 Shades of Blue," which discusses the careers of Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans, and th...

  • Added: Mar 30, 2024
  • Length: 26:57
Revisit Poets Tracy K. Smith and Melissa Range
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tracy K. Smith, Credit: Rachel Eliza Griffiths
This week, the podcast is divided into two parts with one subject—poetry. Part 1 is excerpts from my 2018 interview with poet Melissa Range while p...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 29, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
606: Scott Aukerman, Sarafina El-Badry Nance, and Family Worship Center., 3/29/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features writer and comedian Scott Aukerman, astrophysicist Sarafina El-Badry Nance, and music from Family Worship Center.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 59:01
04012024: The Poet Within, 4/1/2024
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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This time on The Children’s Hour, New Mexico Poet Laureate Lauren Camp inspires us to find our poet within, putting our feelings, thoughts, stories...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:00
Escher Sentences (And Other Nice Ways of Saying Nothing)
From: KMUW
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We'll look at phrases that seem at first glance to mean something, but are actually complete nonsense.

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Marie-Helene Bertino
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Novelist Marie-Helene Bertino discusses "Beautyland."

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., GCR (Global Community Radio), Yellowstone Public Radio, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
An Hour of Storytelling - Seeing and Being Seen and Traveling Stories
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Sheila Arnold, Paul Strickland, Laura Deal, Donna Washington, Adam Booth, and Simon Brooks.

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
MN Reads: "Native Love Jams" by Tashia Hart
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Tashia Hart talks about her new book "Native Love Jams", a nominee for the Minnesota Book Award

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 09:30
From Bingo to Bones!
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Charlotte Helgeson, Director of the Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks MN, shares an odd mix of events coming up very soon!

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 15:25
A Tale of Charles Dickens
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Charles Dickens - detective?

Bought by KMUN, KKRN, KCHW, Spokane Public Radio, KWMR and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2024
  • Length: 01:58:00
  • Purchases: 7
Shelf Discovery: Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin boards the train with a struggling mystery writer in the audio edition of Everyone on This Train Is a Suspe...

Bought by KKRN, WUTC, WCNY, RADIOLEX, and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
Dream-Inspired Poetry with Joan Gelfand
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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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
2024-03-24 Margaret Cavendish
From: Philosophy Talk
Series: Philosophy Talk
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What would it mean to believe in the radical equality of all things—humans, animals, trees, even rocks?

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


  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 53:59
  • Purchases: 4
EDM in America
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode, we talked about the book "The Underground is Massive," which charts the foundation and development of Electronic Dance Music (EDM)...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2024
  • Length: 28:30
605: Lindy West, Paul F. Tompkins, and Ural Thomas and the Pain, 3/22/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features writer and podcaster Lindy West, comedian Paul F. Tompkins, and music from soul group Ural Thomas and the Pain.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 58:59
An Hour of Storytelling - Persistence and If the Shoe Fits
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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Stories by Noa Baum and Shonaleigh, and Cinderella stories from around the world.

Bought by KSJE, KTXK, WVPE, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, and Angelica Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Constant Wonder - Shared Solitude: The Life-Changing Epiphanies of a Children's Writer
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: Constant Wonder
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Before he became an acclaimed children's writer, Douglas Wood often felt like a failure. A letter from a famous wilderness guru changed all that.

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 52:51
MN Reads: "Finding Family" by Laura Purdie Salas
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about the Minnesota Book Award Nominee "Finding Family: The Duckling Raised By Loons"

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 07:10
Return of the Confusables
From: KMUW
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We get back to one of our favorite topics: words that sound a lot like other words but that mean totally different things.

Bought by KECG and KRPS


  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
It's Good to "Tinker!"
From: KSRQ
Series: Community Voices
Caption: Campbell Public Library of East Grand Forks, MN
Floating while tinkering? Find out more on Campbell Corner!

  • Added: Mar 20, 2024
  • Length: 15:49
Shelf Discovery: Every Single Secret by Christina Dodd
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin follows a young woman as she comes face-to-face with her family’s worst enemy in Every Single Secret by Chr...

Bought by WUTC, RADIOLEX, WCNY, GCR (Global Community Radio), and RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Mar 18, 2024
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 5
604: Héctor Tobar, Jena Friedman, and Joseph, 3/15/2024
From: Live Wire! Radio
Series: Live Wire
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This episode features author Héctor Tobar, writer and comedian Jena Friedman, and music from indie folk trio Joseph.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
Islay Day 02
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: Postcards from The Wind
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A postcard from McArthur's Head Lighthouse on the remote Eastern shore of Islay, Scotland.

Bought by KTNA


  • Added: Mar 14, 2024
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 1

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