PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Who’s really threatened – kids who are assumed to be cisgender and heterosexual or LGBTQ students?
- Added: Oct 29, 2021
- Length: 03:30
What happens when these topics are left out?
- Added: Sep 30, 2021
- Length: 06:00
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
Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 02:58
The most important meal of the day - breakfast - is no longer a priority among teenagers. Why can't they find the time for golden waffles doused in...
- Added: Jun 06, 2015
- Length: 01:33
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In this ess...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Apr 17, 2013
- Length: 03:35
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 03:25
- Purchases: 1
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year she's been checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. In th...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 30, 2012
- Length: 03:29
- Purchases: 1
During the school year she'll be checking in with essays reflecting on her experience. This is the second installment of that series of essays.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KPIK-LP
- Added: Oct 02, 2012
- Length: 03:10
- Purchases: 2
Poet Ivery "Poison Ivery" Johnson, 15, is a sophomore at Percy L. Julian High School. This is the first year the school has participated in Louder...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:44
Poet Rachel Smith, 18, is a senior and a member of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team. This is her second year participating in Loud...
Bought by YouthCast
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 02:24
- Purchases: 1
Poet Tova Benjamin, 17, participated as an individual poet representing In One Ear Open Mic at the Heartland Cafe. This is her first year particip...
- Added: Mar 27, 2012
- Length: 03:34
Cristel Martinez came to America from the Dominican Republic with a dream to become a music producer. But the only music she hears in school, says ...
Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, WGXC, and PRX Remix
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 3
Twenty-year-old Thien To first learned about cyberbullying in her native Vietnam. The South Philadelphia High junior has since learned about cyberb...
Bought by WGXC
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 05:48
- Purchases: 1
Shayla Torres dealt with a lot of violence in her last school, where she was a peer mediator. Here, the 17-year-old junior recalls one especially c...
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 02:51
- Purchases: 3
For Luis Lopez, violence arrived unexpectedly at his own front door. The seventeen-year-old sophomore starts his story in a classroom.
- Added: Jul 10, 2011
- Length: 01:55
- Purchases: 2
Poet Essie Linzy, 17, is a junior at Whitney Young and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as an Indy Poet.
Her piece, I Don’t Like Girls, is abou...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:06
This team piece is performed by Kenwood Academy’s Epic Sound, comprised of poets: Ashaki Howard, 17, a senior; Kristen Turner, 16, a junior; Rachel...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:56
Abdul Kadir Farah, a Minneapolis Edison high school senior, is one of many Minneapolis high school students who collect college credit while still ...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
When you play high school volleyball, you have to learn the moves that make your team competitive. April Nelson tells us about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
As you step up from one level of school to the next, there is added responsibility, Simorra Jones, a Minneapolis Edison high school student tells u...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
If there is one thing that is on the minds of every high school student, it is getting into college. Sarah Griefnagen, a student at Minneapolis Edi...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
High School is not an easy time of life. Minneapolis Edison students Breanna Koger and Jazzmin Keys collaborate to tell the world about it.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
- Added: Mar 31, 2010
- Length: 01:21
- Purchases: 1
