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Poetry and music imbued with Earth, wind, and fire, in actuality or metaphorically.
- Added: Feb 03, 2024
- Length: 59:19
Written by Mark Fleischman, with Denise Chatman and Mimi Fleischman
Chapter Two: The Raid on Studio 54
Studio 54 first opened in April 1977 and b...
- Added: Aug 05, 2022
- Length: 27:38
Studio 54 first opened
in April 1977 and became the most famous
nightclub of all time. Its quick ascent was confounding because creators
Steve R...
- Added: Aug 02, 2022
- Length: 18:45
Burnout from work is something a lot of us are thinking about right now. It's been on the minds of librarians, too. We talk to a group of library w...
Bought by KVSC
- Added: Mar 01, 2021
- Length: 25:09
- Purchases: 1
The waltz figures prominently in these pieces about the human experience.
- Added: Jan 30, 2021
- Length: 54:04
Writer and actor Rupert Everett spoke recently with Sandip Roy for the Jaipur Lit. Festival about pandemics and sainthood.
- Added: Oct 13, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Added: Sep 12, 2020
- Length: 01:01:57
- Purchases: 1
After watching “Tales of the City” on Netflix, Sandip reflects on his own tale of the city.
- Added: Jan 21, 2020
- Length: 06:00
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
Poetry inspired by music and musicians.
- Added: Jan 25, 2019
- Length: 58:15
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
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
Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.
- Added: Apr 14, 2017
- Length: 53:46
This week, on State of the Human, people are changing radically in order to recover
Bought by WMUU-LP and CHSR-FM 97.9
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 2
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 31:33
When you mention T.S. Eliot and then refer to texts like The Waste Land or his magnum opus The Four Quartets you generally elicit discomfort, anger...
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 13:22
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays. In th...
- Added: Jan 22, 2013
- Length: 02:08
Bemidji area writer Michael Forbes recites his essay written in contemplation of Aurora Borealis, family, and home.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 09, 2012
- Length: 04:51
- Purchases: 1
This true gothic story was told by author Randy Osborne in which he recounts life with his eccentric grandmother, her 35 cats, and a retribution th...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 10:24
From YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1, a play by Judith Sloan. WINNER FIRST PLACE 2008, Missouri Review Narrative Essay about...
- Added: Feb 25, 2008
- Length: 06:48
Susan Sontag and her last novel, "In America." Norman Mailer and his book, "Time of Our Time.
- Added: Jan 10, 2008
- Length: 54:30
- Added: Nov 16, 2007
- Length: 03:30
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 07, 2007
- Length: 03:45
Poems by Irina Ratushinskaya and Elizabeth Smart
- Added: Mar 10, 2006
- Length: 04:30
Poems about betrayal in love by John updike and Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Added: Mar 10, 2006
- Length: 04:00
