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In this episode, we share an interview with Mahogany Browne and Brooklyn poet laureate Tina Chang, plus a story about the classic novel A Tree Grow...
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 31:58
In this episode, we tell the story of Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood through the lives of three women who set down roots there in diffe...
Bought by KBUT Crested Butte, Colo.
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 26:22
- Purchases: 1
This week on World Ocean Radio we have a special reading of "Christmas at Sea", an evocative poem by Robert Louis Stevenson written in 1883. Steven...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Dec 24, 2019
- Length: 03:23
- Purchases: 1
Sandip Roy remembers on of India’s most beloved writers.
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Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio
- Added: Nov 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
Amitav Ghosh’s newest novel Gun Island is a story about both two of his great themes - migration and climate.
- Added: Sep 10, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Online search engines are basically universal, so questions at the library reference desk are changing. We follow the story of one question, “I wan...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 20:01
- Purchases: 1
Immigration is a pressing topic in our political landscape right now, with concerns about ICE raids and immigration bans. In this episode, we liste...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 21:11
“A truly great library contains something in it to offend everyone.” So goes the quote from librarian Jo Godwin. From Dr. Seuss to kosher books to ...
- Added: Jul 24, 2019
- Length: 24:17
Sandip Roy speaks with author and Afghan born American, vegan beefcake and most lovable teddy bear, Nemat Sadat.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 16, 2019
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
The 85 year old Ruskin Bond is a bit of an accidental Indian, but he is also one of the most loved Indian writers. Sandip Roy met him at the Tata S...
- Added: Jun 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
The Kolkata Book Fair is one of the largest in the world. But it also has space for the smallest of publishers.
- Added: Feb 11, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
Sandip Roy remembers his boyhood fascination with Hergé's famous comic, Tintin
- Added: Jan 22, 2019
- Length: 06:00
Three-time Georgia Author of the Year for poetry and editor of THE GEORGIA REVIEW, Stephen Corey reads from his book STARTLED AT THE BIG SOUND: ESS...
- Added: Jan 09, 2019
- Length: 29:00
'Tis the season for our end-of-year episode. Each year at the holidays, World Ocean Radio host Peter Neill reads At The Fishhouses, a poem by Eliza...
- Added: Dec 26, 2018
- Length: 04:34
Winner of San Francisco's 2015 LitQuake essay contest. Published in Word Riot (with audio) December 2015.
- Added: Nov 26, 2018
- Length: 03:18
I'm not about to declare continental living a danger to one's health, but I'm starting to wonder. What is it about small, isolated places surrounde...
- Added: Sep 16, 2018
- Length: 13:08
The national news media is mesmerized by a president who runs the White House like a reality show. Jen Rice takes a look at the weird relationship ...
- Added: Aug 24, 2018
- Length: 57:42
Poet Linda Back McKay shares her poem "Howl" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Jul 09, 2018
- Length: 02:10
Poet Steve Juenemann shares his poem "Big White Feather" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: May 14, 2018
- Length: 01:35
Poet Emilio Degrazia shares his poem "Why He Didn't Pray" on this weeks segment of Wordish.
- Added: Apr 02, 2018
- Length: 02:20
Stay Human takes a closer look at being undecided, not here and not there but in-between.
- Added: Mar 27, 2018
- Length: 59:32
On this segment of Wordish Jennifer Derrick shares her essay "Dressing Room".
- Added: Mar 12, 2018
- Length: 02:01
Poet Serenity Schoonover shares her poem "Simple, Sacred".
- Added: Feb 26, 2018
- Length: 02:50
Poet Brett Elizabeth Jenkins shares her poem "A Man in an Illinois Toll Booth Called Me a Beautiful Woman as I Was Driving Away".
- Added: Feb 19, 2018
- Length: 01:52
