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Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.

  • Added: Nov 26, 2018
  • Length: 03:18
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This episode we spin loads of amazing music (all on vinyl of course) and we have a great couple chats with Larry Jaffee who is a writer, music revi...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 01:57:15
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
As he lies dying in the hospital, Edgar Poe drifts in and out of consciousness, mingling strange dreams with the sounds of the hospital.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the hospital where he lies dying, alarming sensations bleed into Edgar Poe's fevered hallucinations.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Mourning for his lost love compels Edgar Poe to inhabit his poem "The Raven."

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe is confronted by his doppelganger and has some words with a mummy.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the library of an old decaying mansion, Edgar Poe awakes into a nightmare.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:37
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe arrives at the Antarctic Pole in search of a secret passage to the Beyond.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:05
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In Antarctica Edgar Poe finds a secret passage between this world and the next.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 34:58
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
An art song that tells the story of Edgar Poe's passion, death and afterlife.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:03
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TED Talks meets The Moth meets The History Channel? ...with Dead Ladies. In this episode -- Hypatia of Alexandria. It's a tale of murder, mayhem an...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2018
  • Length: 32:47
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Julius Lester
Celebrating two radio legends who passed through Pacifica radio station WBAI in New York City in the seventies on their way to greater glory- I was...

  • Added: Jan 21, 2018
  • Length: 59:36
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One man's vision led to a vinyl-only record company producing albums of spoken-word horror literature. And the craziest part? It's flourishing.

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago


  • Added: Jan 20, 2018
  • Length: 09:57
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Goodbye Village Voice
A look back at the last twelve months, a retrospective of a truly transitional year with a disturbing loss of morals, constitution values and major...

Bought by 'The Sea', Indie3 Radio, RadioFreePalmer, KDUR, North Country Public Radio and more


  • Added: Dec 21, 2017
  • Length: 59:22
  • Purchases: 13
Caption: From the Theater District (of Your Mind)
In a theatrical musical, songs break out during the story line. In a radio musical, a story line breaks out during a set of music. In the radio...

  • Added: Sep 12, 2017
  • Length: 29:38
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In an era of fake news and alternative facts, what is the role of literature that blurs the line between fiction and non-fiction? Novelist Lynne Ti...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2017
  • Length: 30:55
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Similar to a theatrical musical where the story is interrupted with a song, a radio musical has the songs interrupted by a story. Tonight's radi...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2017
  • Length: 40:31
Caption: Tracy Hellem, Credit: Cal Reynolds
"We're kind of in a place where our hands are tied." Tracy Hellem, an assistant professor of nursing in Montana, is among a select few who've tried...

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 06, 2017
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, we hear from Amahl Bishara about her work with Aida refugee camp, the power of storytelling for the Palestinian cause, and how she...

  • Added: Jan 04, 2017
  • Length: 33:17
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Tonight's show, Mexican rocanrol from the 1950s and 60s plus a radio musical. You know, in a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting ...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 22, 2016
  • Length: 02:52:43
  • Purchases: 1
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In a theatrical musical, a song springs up interrupting the narrative. In a radio musical, a narrative springs up interrupting the music. Okay, s...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Dec 21, 2016
  • Length: 43:56
  • Purchases: 1
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This week's episode is a bit of nonsense verse set to music: "Well, it was nine o'clock at midnight in the early afternoon / And I was picking all...

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 01:21
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A retelling of the Shane Fenton story and a whiff of Mardi Gras is in the air down here in New Orleans.

  • Added: Dec 07, 2016
  • Length: 03:27:20
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I was hanging around down by the waterfront the other day ... keeping an eye on the harbor seals. Sometimes they leak, you know ...

  • Added: Nov 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:55