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The Things They Carry: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen
From: Jake Warga
Series: The Things They Carry: U.S. Soldiers in Afghanistan
Caption: Staff Sergeant Christen Cohen, Credit: Jake Warga
Part of a series that asks U.S. soldiers serving in Afghanistan what they have to carry around with them every day—from the physical to the emotion...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KZYX, XRAY.fm, KKWE Niijii Radio, KHNS and more


  • Added: Feb 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:34
  • Purchases: 13
Episode 15: Jayne Freeman - Bobby Pickles' Podcast
From: Bobby Pickles
Series: Bobby Pickles' Podcast
Caption: Jayne Freeman
Bobby speaks with Jayne Freeman, a Childbirth Educator certified through the CEA/MNY (Childbirth Education Association of Metropolitan New York). J...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2013
  • Length: 01:28:13
Culturology: "Prairie Silence" - Author Melanie Hoffert talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Prairie Silence" by Melanie Hoffert
Minnesota author Melanie Hoffert's new book deals with the persistent ties one raised in a rural community may feel years later, even after their l...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:11
  • Purchases: 2
Year of the Women?
From: Voices of Our World
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Today on Voices of Our World we speak with two women who may provide some insight into whether or not the effects of the so-called “year of the wom...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KVSC, and KVSC


  • Added: Jan 10, 2013
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 3
Culturology: "Gown" an essay from Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KHSU


  • Added: Jan 07, 2013
  • Length: 05:52
  • Purchases: 2
NEA Jazz Moments wirth Lorraine Gordon
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Jazz Masters Moments
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Three short "Moments" featuring 2013 NEA Jazz Master, LORRAINE GORDON. Narrated by Mark Ruffin of The Real Jazz channel on Sirius-XM, we learn abou...

Bought by WKSU, Harford Community Radio, WRTI, KCSM, KJZX-Austin and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 12
Quiche in the Woods
From: Cassie Wagler
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This is the true story of a woman who went hiking in the woods . . . and really, never came out.

  • Added: Dec 29, 2012
  • Length: 03:46
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Grandma Walked Wide"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "A Return"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:56
The Beat: Mike Finley - "Old Girlfriends"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

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  • Added: Nov 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Athena Kildegaard - "Untitled Love Poem"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Poet Athena Kildegaard lives in "prairie pothole country," her term for Morris, Minnesota where she is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. A...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Genesis Gardens
From: Jenna Creech
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An intern from Genesis Gardens talks about her time working on farms and her current activity working on a farm with the homeless.

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
The Beat: Anne Dunn - A poem in honor of Paul Wellstone
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller, writer, and poet. Following Paul Wellstone's death she wrote this poem to honor his legacy.

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
The Beat: Amy Clark - "Plains"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Amy Clark is a native Iowan and recent transplant to Northern Minnesota. She is a poet, essayist, university instructor, and sometimes producer fo...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
Centerstage Minnesota: Sasha Mercedes has a conversation with Charlie Pulkrabek
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Centerstage Minnesota
Caption: Sasha Mercedes, Credit: Rachel Schroeder
Sasha Mercedes is a talented singer/songwriter that grew up in northern Minnesota, and currently makes her home in Minneapolis. Her story is very i...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 30, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume." The Beat is a daily remind...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
Melissa's Diary, Part 2: Raising Issaiah
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries
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This is Melissa’s second audio diary. Her son Issaiah is now one-year-old. “I’m a really selfish person…I want to be treated as the baby. I want t...

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  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 12:37
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: "Trip In Dad's Truck" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman. In this essay A...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:58
  • Purchases: 2
The Beat: Ann Neidringhaus - "Horrendous Certainty"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Culturology: "All My Elders Are Gone: Fabulous Crone" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" by Judith Kitchen
Judith Kitchen is the author of numerous books of fiction and nonfiction. Here Dan Sinkyn reviews "Half In Shade: Family, Photography, and Fate" a ...

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  • Added: Oct 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Culturology: Dan Sinykin reviews "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" by Brenda J. Child
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" by Brenda J. Child
Brenda J. Child's latest book "Holding Our World Together: Ojibwe Women and the Survival of the Community" examines the vital role women have playe...

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  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Irena Sendler, May 12, 2008
From: Jonathan Thomas Stratman
Series: Who Died Today
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She was a small, dark-haired Polish Catholic who somehow managed to save 2500 Jewish children from the Nazis. How? Here's the tale. Also available...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2012
  • Length: 03:00
The Beat: Gail Rixen - "Old Barn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 02:00
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Work"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Work." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry mat...

  • Added: Sep 10, 2012
  • Length: 01:53

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