PRX - Pieces for Format: Essay

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Reydesel, a legally deaf undocumented college graduate, shares how he went from suicidal to successful after the Deferred Action for Childhood Arri...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 17:35
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Kiara tells a tender story of flying home to Mexico for the first time since she was four to see her ailing grandmother. (*She was able to visit as...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 14:27
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way, Tolstoi wrote as the first sentence in Anna Karenina. The epitaph he c...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2015
  • Length: 04:45
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A poem about Thanksgiving by Sharon Olds, read by Eliza Foss

  • Added: Nov 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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Part one of Audio Revolution! MIXTAPE #5 presents a powerful selection of stories made by youth at the Global Leadership Forum 2014 held at the Uni...

Bought by KUNM and KRZA


  • Added: Jul 09, 2015
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 2
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Gypsy jazz from Berlin, Germany along with Big Top Chautauqua's very own Blue Canvas Orchestra.

Bought by KALH, KMSU, WDSE, KSRQ, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 59:30
  • Purchases: 8
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How girlie do you have to be to secure your spot in the girl club? And what happens when your own mother questions your girl credentials? Marlo Ma...

Bought by WCPN and XRAY.fm


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 09:11
  • Purchases: 2
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How old is gender? Can a six-year-old child really be considered transgender? Marlo Mack explores this question, with a little help from her tran...

Bought by WCPN


  • Added: Sep 06, 2014
  • Length: 08:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Up until she was a teenager, she lived in comfort. What she didn’t see coming was the moment when she lost everything. Find out why her world turne...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 16, 2014
  • Length: 07:31
  • Purchases: 3
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. In this piece, Finch explains the role of a Christmas t...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Jan 22, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
  • Purchases: 1
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A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
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Rand Cooper discusses the challenges of becoming a new dad at a time when friends are sending their children off to college.

  • Added: Dec 22, 2009
  • Length: 05:45
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The Salvation Army bell ringer, bundled up to stay warm in weather that has turned brutal overnight, stands just beside the front door of the busy ...

  • Added: Dec 15, 2009
  • Length: 04:01
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This time of year, even when the spirit isn’t really there at all, we can decorate and party and shop ourselves into a state of manufactured joy. ...

  • Added: Nov 22, 2009
  • Length: 04:35
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Seeing familiar faces in a box of old photographs

  • Added: Nov 17, 2009
  • Length: 03:30