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Sandip and writers Amy Tan and Rabih Alameddine explore what makes Jaipur one of the greatest literature festivals in the world.
- Added: Feb 05, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Joyce Sutphen shares her poem "Defying Gravity" about the experience between a parent and a child.
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 01:43
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Micheal Goldberg takes a look at Russia through music, poems and essays.
- Added: Sep 25, 2017
- Length: 59:12
Celebrating the continental American solar eclipse with Michael Goldberg.
- Added: Aug 24, 2017
- Length: 58:20
Robert Jevne shares "In Totality (or not)" on this segment of Wordish.
- Added: Aug 23, 2017
- Length: 03:23
On this segment Michael Goldberg gives us animal stories; a wolf, a donkey, a dog, animals teaching us something on how to stay human.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 01:00:02
- Purchases: 3
In her essay, "Chataqua", Lisa Joy Hesse plumbs the depths of deer, deer and more deer as well as our continuing fascination with them.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:21
Minnesota Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen recites her poem "Carrying Water".
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:14
In her poem "Chicken Without a Cause" Linda Back McKay brings us a surreal account of a transformation.
- Added: Aug 09, 2017
- Length: 02:20
A group of children worry about their Hispanic grandmother after the death of her only sibling, Uncle Lolo. Written by Michael Fidel Marquez, Narr...
- Added: Jul 11, 2017
- Length: 25:31
If the polls had been right and Hillary Clinton had won someone could have written a great American satire of an America where Donald Trump wins. B...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jun 19, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Excerpts from Rachel Cohen's essay "Lost Cities" and segments of poetry by Fernando Pessoa and Constantine Cavafy examine the allure of one's home ...
- Added: May 26, 2017
- Length: 53:20
This mother’s Day I was thinking about a very particular mother. Not mine but a woman named Leila Seth.
Leila Seth was the first woman to top th...
- Added: May 17, 2017
- Length: 06:00
Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 53:46
In this week's episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill reads “The Fish,” a poem by Marianne Moore from a collection entitled "American Sea W...
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 04:11
When I was a little boy I once lost my parents in a busy market in Kolkata. I cannot begin to imagine what it means to be lost for 25 YEARS. Like S...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Feb 14, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Bharati Mukherjee is gone but she left the light on for many of us.
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 06, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Iranian-American writer Firoozeh Dumas' commentaries about her hyphenated life have aired on NPR.
But that was a different America. While Firoozeh ...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Feb 01, 2017
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
From: New Letters on the Air
Get a humorous account of the holiday season with Kansas blogger Jen Mann's book SPENDING THE HOLIDAYS WITH PEOPLE I WANT TO PUNCH IN THE THROAT. S...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Dec 21, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
At each year's end, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads "At The Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop. This perennial favorite poem was chosen not o...
- Added: Dec 27, 2016
- Length: 04:51
- Added: Dec 24, 2016
- Length: 04:39
Steve Downing reflects on some of the arts programming he has shared over the past 12 months.
- Added: Dec 20, 2016
- Length: 04:29
Every immigrant has a coming to the America memory. Nayomi Munaweera came to America when she was 12. It was the mid eighties. And Duran Duran.....
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio and KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio
- Added: Jul 12, 2016
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 2
Philip Armand becomes enamored with Campari while on vacation in Milan, then discovers the geography of the past and future.
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 06:17
