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Novelist Whitney Terrell
From: New Letters on the Air
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Novelist Whitney Terrell talks about his third novel, THE GOOD LIEUTENANT. Terrell was embedded with the military in Iraq, writing non-fiction for ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: May 29, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Past American Voice of Poet Michelle Boisseau
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...

Bought by WNJR and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Dec 01, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Black Women Writers in History
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues as we go to the archives to revisit Black Women Writers in History, a program that examines important African-Ameri...

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, High Plains Public Radio, WRKF, WDCB and more


  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 28
Poet DaMaris Hill
From: New Letters on the Air
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

Bought by WNMU-FM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Anthony Grooms
From: New Letters on the Air
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Anthony Grooms, author of the novel BOMBINGHAM, reads from his recent novel, THE VAIN CONVERSATION, based on a 1946 lynching of two black couples i...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part Two
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan, the author of 20 plus books including EMILY, ALONE and LAST NIGHT AT THE LOBSTER, reads from his later novel, CITY OF SECRETS, and d...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Jan 14, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Favorites
From: New Letters on the Air
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FAVORITES features excerpts from shows of the past decade with Nikki Giovanni, Marcus Wicker, Thomas Keneally, Ellen Bass, Daniel Woodrell and Alex...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Jul 28, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Cheers to All the Years
From: New Letters on the Air
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After 43 years of broadcasting, 2020 budget cuts may bring us to an end. This compilation program features audio from four decades of our archives ...

  • Added: Jun 30, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Inaugural Kansas City 18th & Vine Poet Laureate Glenn North
From: New Letters on the Air
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New Letters on the Air features Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District. This Cave Canem fellow shares...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
Navajo Poet Bojan Louis
From: New Letters on the Air
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A member of the Navajo Nation, Bojan Louis is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and author of the 2018 American Book Award-winning poetry collection...

Bought by WMMT


  • Added: Dec 02, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist and Non-Fiction Author Stewart O'Nan: Part One
From: New Letters on the Air
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Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Poets Mia Leonin and Gustavo Adolfo Aybar
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a public poetry reading at The Writer's Place in Kansas City with poets Mia ...

  • Added: Oct 09, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Texas Slam Poet Joaquín Zihuatanejo
From: New Letters on the Air
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Joaquín Zihuatanejo discusses poems based on life in his hometown of East Dallas. He also talks about his early life growing up without his father ...

  • Added: Jun 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Fiction Writer and Vietnam Veteran Tim O'Brien
From: New Letters on the Air
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Listen to Vietnam veteran Tim O'Brien at the Kansas City Public Library, as he discusses experiences that fueled his collection of short stories, T...

  • Added: May 23, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
Poet and MacArthur Fellow Terrance Hayes
From: New Letters on the Air
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Multi-award-winning poet and MacArthur fellow, Terrance Hayes, reads from his fifth book, HOW TO BE DRAWN, winner of the 2016 NAACP Image Award for...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Novelist Larry Watson
From: New Letters on the Air
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While at the Woodneath Library Center, novelist Larry Watson reads from his tenth book, AS GOOD AS GONE, now out in paperback. He reveals how cowbo...

  • Added: Aug 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
Carolyn Kizer: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Book Talk, December 2012
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, TWQ producer Chérie Newman talks with Barbara Theroux and Zed about some of the recently-published books written by authors fr...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 29:52
  • Purchases: 1