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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
On her kids' last day of school, Laura draws from Susan Wise Bauer's research, writing, and experience on how we can rethink the way we approach ou...
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 22:02
This week we bring you an abbreviated special edition of World Ocean Radio in response to the global Covid-19 pandemic. In this edition we'll reite...
Bought by KMXT
- Added: Mar 30, 2020
- Length: 02:02
- Purchases: 1
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
It turns out that libraries weren’t always so friendly toward children. That started to change around the turn of the 20th century, thanks to a lib...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 20:41
- Purchases: 1
Kairi Hollon tried to go to the library when he was a teenager in Brooklyn in the 1980s, but he kept getting kicked out. Years later, he came back ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 26, 2019
- Length: 22:09
- Purchases: 1
It’s not an uncommon experience to be unstably housed in this country. From Brooklyn to San Francisco, communities often turn to public libraries f...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 24:46
- Purchases: 2
To ring in the new year, take a dive into the stories of the Coney Island Polar Bear club. We hear from voices from across New York City—a cop spea...
- Added: Dec 23, 2019
- Length: 10:48
Many things divide a country, but it’s the overlooked, personal slights, that hurt the most.
- Added: Nov 18, 2019
- Length: 06:00
What happens when you live life as a tumbleweed? Beholden to no one but yourself?
What happens when an estranged parent tries to bring you back i...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 17:37
Julian struggles to read a piece about a woman visiting her sister who was admitted into a mental health hospital for being a danger to herself. Ho...
- Added: May 17, 2019
- Length: 22:26
The murders of four children at the hands of caretakers were adjudicated by Maine's court system recently. As the last days of a child whose grandf...
- Added: Apr 06, 2019
- Length: 07:17
We have long enjoyed the ocean edge for leisurely ends: as a place to gather with family and friends to enjoy surf and sand, and to relax in the fr...
- Added: Jan 29, 2019
- Length: 04:35
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
A mom and veterinarian politely asks Santa not to bring her children the item that tops their Christmas lists: a puppy. With love and detail, Dr. ...
- Added: Dec 20, 2018
- Length: 04:00
Steve Downing shares his essay about a Thanksgiving turkey dinner devolving into a political food fight.
Bought by Angelica Community Radio
- Added: Nov 19, 2018
- Length: 04:12
- Purchases: 1
Sandip remembers a bitter part of his childhood.
- Added: Aug 27, 2018
- Length: 06:00
Concrete art, houses of straw, outbuildings and their many joys - stories this week celebrating how people who live in the woods shape their place.
Bought by 'The Sea'
- Added: Jun 26, 2018
- Length: 59:21
- Purchases: 1
- Added: May 07, 2018
- Length: 06:00
- Purchases: 1
For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...
Bought by WVAS
- Added: May 05, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
A pet bunny gets recast as gay in a children’s book parodying a similar book created by members of VP Mike Pence’s family.
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh
- Added: Apr 27, 2018
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Writer Carol Dunbar has more than one power issue as she shares her essay "Generator" with us on Wordish.
- Added: Mar 19, 2018
- Length: 03:21
Sandip struggles with a “getting back to nature” trip.
- Added: Feb 12, 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
This edition of Stay Human is about remembering and honoring our parents, helping us to see more connections between their lives and ours.
- Added: Jan 16, 2018
- Length: 59:05
