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For Women's History Month, we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century....

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, KBIA, WNMU-FM, WDCB and more

National Writers Series: Anna Quindlen

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four

Anne-Marie Oomen talks with author Anna Quindlen

Bought by WNED Buffalo, WNMU-FM, Michigan Radio, and WKAR

Joy Harjo: Writing the Southwest

From: David Dunaway

The work and life of Joy Harjo, newly-named U.S. Poet Laureate, explores growing up between cultures, part Muskogee-Creek and Cherokee, part Irish ...

Bought by KGLP and Prairie Public

A Change of World

From: The Poetry Foundation

Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more

Mothering Decisions

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

Some critics of popular culture say there aren’t enough accurate portrayals of abortion decisions. But one scholar says, in some recent mother-daug...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix

Women's History Month: Poems Of The Women's Movement

From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice

Feminist poet Honor Moore talks about the anthology she edited, Poems From The Women’s Movement.

Bought by WABE

Women's History: Louisa May Alcott & American Bloomsbury

From: Francesca Rheannon

Susan Cheever talks about her acclaimed 2010 biography, LOUISA MAY ALCOTT and about her 2007 book, AMERICAN BLOOMSBURY, Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Wa...

Megan Marshall reads from her Pulitzer-winner, Margaret Fuller: A New American Life (5/13)

From: Peter Johnson
Series: The Author's Corner on Public Radio daily show: MAY 2014

100-second module, from our weekday readings for May. An early activist profiled.

Bought by WEZU

A Conversation with Writer, M. Evelina Galang

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

M. Evelina Galang's work spans generations with her writing of young Filipina-Americans and the surviving World War II "comfort women." [22:15]

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KZUM, and KPIP-LP

A Novel That Confronts Modern-Day Slavery (Feature)

From: With Good Reason
Series: news features

The U.S. State Department has estimated that 1 million children each year are exploited by the global sex industry. Through a new novel, one author...

Bought by KENW and KFAI Minneapolis

A tribute to Toni Morrison

From: With Good Reason

In 1993, Toni Morrison became only the second American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Joanne Gabbin, executive director of the Furiou...