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Conversations: Chloé Cooper Jones
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with writer and philosophy professor Chloé Cooper Jones about her memoir Easy Beauty, which chronicles her quest to w...

  • Added: May 30, 2023
  • Length: 53:50
Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
MN Reads: "Tumbled" by Heather Wilde
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Heather Wilde talks about her new memoir "Tumbled"

  • Added: Mar 30, 2023
  • Length: 09:45
The Past American Voice of Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Conversations: Shirlene Obuobi, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with physician, artist, and author, Shirlene Obuobi about fiction as escapism, and the stories behind her debut novel...

  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 38:22
More with Lawyer turned Poet Monica Youn
From: New Letters on the Air
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We begin Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a conversation with lawyer-turned-poet Monica Youn. Though both her parents were born in Korea,...

Bought by KWMR, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Black Women Writers in History
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues as we go to the archives to revisit Black Women Writers in History, a program that examines important African-Ameri...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, High Plains Public Radio, WRKF, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 28
Poet DaMaris Hill
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Native American Poet Deborah Miranda
From: New Letters on the Air
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Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 07, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Clarion Collection
From: New Letters on the Air
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The NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR Classics Series begins with a look back at our 2013 Clarion Award-winning year for Best Radio Talk/Interview Program fro...

Bought by WUOT 91.9 FM


  • Added: Aug 04, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Juliet Cutler - 410
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Juliet Cutler discusses her memoir "Among the Maasai." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Raki Kopernik - 399
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Raki Kopernik discusses her lyric nonfiction book, The Memory House as well as her collection of poetry, The Other Body. She also reads a few selec...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 30, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - We Leave The Flowers Where They Are - 396
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Robin O'Day, Elke Govertsen, and Julie Janj discuss their contributions to the anthology, "We Leave the Flowers Where They Are: True Stories of Mon...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
New York State Poet Alicia Ostriker
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue our series on current State Poets Laureate with New York's Alicia Ostriker. The New York State Poet (2018-2020) is a feminist, critic, ...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
PN 17-05 "Memorial Day" by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
From: The Poetry Foundation
Series: PoetryNow
Caption: Sunnylyn Thibodaoux, poet
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux mediates on the anxieties and ambitions of adult life.

Bought by KENW and KALW


  • Added: Jul 17, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Alice Friman
From: New Letters on the Air
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Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...

Bought by WNJR, WMUU-LP, and WNJR


  • Added: Jan 11, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Chilean-American author Marjorie Agosin
From: New Letters on the Air
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The author of the 2015 International Latino Book Award-winning young adult novel, I LIVED ON BUTTERFLY HILL, Marjorie Agosín has always felt outsid...

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


  • Added: Oct 01, 2015
  • Length: 30:30
  • Purchases: 2
Carolyn Kizer: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
GenderPalooza
From: KUOW's RadioActive Youth Media
Series: RadioActive: Summer 2013
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For the first RadioActive podcast of summer 2013, new hosts Isaac Noren and Carlos Nieto bring you stories about gender and gender stereotypes.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 13:07
A Conversation with Veteran, Lynn Hill
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Lynn Hill discusses her participation in "Holding It Down" -- Vijay Iyer's and Mike Ladd's performance piece based on the dreams of veterans of col...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Feb 18, 2014
  • Length: 26:45
  • Purchases: 1
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
Mary Clearman Blew, author of 'This Is Not The Ivy League'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Mary Clearman Blew talks about the challenges of writing memoir that includes living people. She also reads passages from her ...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 30, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight In Odessa
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Janet Skeslin Charles talks about, and reads from 'Moonlight In Odessa', a darkly humorous novel about eastern European women ...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 23, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Ripley Hugo
From: Chérie Newman
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Ripley Hugo talks about and reads several of the poems in her collection, 'On The Right Wind.' The program also includes interviews with a few of h...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2011
  • Length: 52:35
Virginia Tranel documents abuse in BENITA: prey for him
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Decades after graduating from a Catholic college, Virginia Tranel found out that one of her classmates, Benita Kane, had been in a 20-year relation...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 12, 2010
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 1