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Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
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In this episode, Emily speaks with poet, physician, and medical ethicist Dr. Laura Kolbe about her poetry collection, Little Pharma, the languages ...

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 45:12
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Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside medit...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
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National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with Xanath Caraza, a multi-International Latino Book Award winner. In part one of this interview, she t...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Oct 07, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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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
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
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We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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We begin National Hispanic Heritage month with the Past American Voice of Judith Ortiz Cofer, who influenced and mentored Latina writers around the...

Bought by RadioStPete Florida


  • Added: Sep 20, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Jan 07, 2015
  • Length: 52:58
  • Purchases: 10
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Renowned writers, singers, and poets, including Maya Angelou and Nikki Giovanni, paid tribute to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison with an extravaganza ...

Bought by WORT, WJCT, WTJU, Northwest Public Broadcasting, WCSU-FM and more


  • Added: Feb 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 9
Caption: Colin Fischer, Credit: Jacket cover design by Emily Osborne
This is the story of an exceptional 14-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome. He hates the color blue, keeps a very detailed notebook, needs flash...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 14:42
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
Caption: Ghanian Students Writing To Their Peace Pals in the U.S., Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 6
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Two words: Thank you. They sound simple enough. But there is always more to a topic, phrase, or ritual than one might think.

Bought by WABE, KOSU, Michigan Radio, KTSW 89.9, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: Nov 18, 2008
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 29
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By mining the dark veins of this classic, its timeless heart is reclaimed.

Bought by KREV-LP, WUTC, KTXK, KVSC, KGOU and more


  • Added: Dec 01, 2007
  • Length: 55:19
  • Purchases: 61

  • Added: Sep 28, 2006
  • Length: 29:08
  • Purchases: 12
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Novelist Aldous Huxley talks about self-knowledge and the power of change.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM, KFAI Minneapolis, WKYU, and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 22, 2006
  • Length: 04:31
  • Purchases: 4
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James Michener talks about brotherhood and community.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and WKYU


  • Added: Jun 21, 2006
  • Length: 04:21
  • Purchases: 2
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Thomas Mann talks about faith, integrity, and creativity.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM and WKYU


  • Added: Jun 20, 2006
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 2
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A look at how many contemporary ideas about love come from the love sonnets of fourteenth-century Italian poet Francesco Petrarch

Bought by KVSC, WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 29:17
  • Purchases: 9
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From Homer to slam, the special appeal of poetry in performance.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KZMU Moab Community Radio and more


  • Added: Apr 01, 2005
  • Length: 29:48
  • Purchases: 20
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Amazing young poets explore attraction and identity through the spoken word.

Bought by C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, KGNU Community Radio, WFHB, WGDR, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Jun 29, 2004
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 11