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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
- Added: Mar 16, 2018
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 73
Molly Caro May discusses her latest book, Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage Into Motherhood.
Bought by KMUD, Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, and KWMR
- Added: Feb 28, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
From: Out of Bounds
The award-winning teacher and novelist discusses her latest novel "Innocents and Others"
- Added: Sep 13, 2017
- Length: 27:00
Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU
- Added: Aug 18, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Donna Salli's first novel, A Notion of Pelicans, delves into the lives of five women as they each recall a memorable day in October many years ago.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Sep 23, 2016
- Length: 08:59
- Purchases: 1
Do you see colors when you do math problems? The heroine of "A Mango Shaped Space" does. Kids from the Mother/Daughter Book Club at One More Page b...
- Added: Feb 23, 2016
- Length: 19:28
Conversations with celebrated American poets Rita Dove and Sonia Sanchez.
Bought by Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi), WNSB, Morehead State Public Radio, WRIR, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 7
Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, KAAD-LP, WRIR, KUAF Public Radio and more
- Added: Jan 21, 2016
- Length: 53:52
- Purchases: 9
Forced to ‘rest’ for months in an old Victorian estate, a woman begins to realize something strange about the horrendous wallpaper in the nursery.
- Added: Sep 07, 2015
- Length: 38:06
This Women's Words from KUMD features Felicia Schneiderhan reading the epilogue to her memoir Newlyweds Afloat: Married Bliss and Mechanical Breakd...
- Added: Jun 01, 2015
- Length: 07:18
This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 7
This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 53:56
- Purchases: 6
Novelist Helen Oyeyemi reads from her dreamy, fairy-tale-inspired novel and reflects on themes of beauty and race.
- Added: Aug 18, 2014
- Length: 07:21
- Purchases: 2
When and where were you happiest? Novelist Helen Oyeyemi answers a modified version of the Proust Questionnaire, a set of questions made famous by ...
- Added: Aug 12, 2014
- Length: 04:03
- Purchases: 2
MaryAnn Wilimek writes poetry and creative nonfiction in Bemidji.Her work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Relief, Lake Country Journal, Radi...
- Added: Sep 23, 2013
- Length: 02:02
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
- Added: Jul 22, 2013
- Length: 02:34
- Purchases: 2
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...
- Added: Oct 24, 2012
- Length: 01:15
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
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
Sheila Packa lives in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. She has published three books of poetry. Sheila Packa also edited the acclaimed anthol...
- Added: Sep 10, 2012
- Length: 02:00
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
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
A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.
Minnesota's current Poet Laureate recites her poem ...
- Added: Aug 09, 2012
- Length: 01:41
