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Back to the Writing Well featuring Elizabeth Gaffney, George Saunders, and the late Pat Conroy
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KRZA, WNJR, WNJR, and WMUU-LP


  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Kansas Poets Laureate: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of State Poets Laureate continues with a look back at previous holders of the title in Kansas. Part one of this public reading feat...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Sep 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Episode One: "Taxes & Taxonomy"
From: Troy Public Radio
Series: Carried Home: Alabama Authors and The Pulitzer Prize
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A conversation with biologist and naturalist E.O. Wilson on what winning a second Pulitzer Prize meant for him and his Harvard colleagues. A look ...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2017
  • Length: 24:59
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 3
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #3 travels into the realm of memory as Howard Nemerov and Gwendolyn Brooks read poems about childhood and the fleeting nature of time.

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, RadioFreePalmer, KUPR low power FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 14:20
  • Purchases: 17
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 2
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #2 takes listeners on several poetry journeys: to Africa with James Baldwin and on an interplanetary rocket-poem trip with Allen Ginsberg a...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KFCF FM, KUPR low power FM, WNMU-FM, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 17, 2014
  • Length: 21:26
  • Purchases: 17
Poetry Month Special: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets, Episode 1
From: The WFMT Radio Network
Series: Studs Terkel in Conversation with American Poets
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Episode #1 explores how poetry enables people to channel the voices of others and features excerpts from Studs Terkel’s interviews with Elma Stucke...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, Radio Catskill, KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KUPR low power FM and more


  • Added: Apr 10, 2014
  • Length: 15:00
  • Purchases: 20
The Mikie Show #62, Mary
From: Michael Carroll
Series: The Mikie Show
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Episode Sixty-Two, Mary! Thank you for supporting all that episodic exposition! This episode we speak with romance novelist Mary Tate Engels. Autho...

  • Added: Jun 22, 2013
  • Length: 28:02
There is No Dog
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: Turning Pages: Authors and Their Words
Caption: G.P. Putnam's Sons jacket cover, Credit: Natalie C. Sousa, cover design
Meg Rosoff, a Printz Award-winning author, returns to the young adult marketplace with "There is No Dog," a provocative and imaginative novel starr...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2012
  • Length: 21:06
Ann Patchett's State of Wonder
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Author Ann Patchett
An hour long reading and interview with Ann Patchett recorded in front of a live audience at the Portsmouth Music Hall in June, 2011.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Wright Brothers' Sister
From: With Good Reason
Caption: Orville, Katharine and Wilbur Wright, Credit: Library of Congress
Why you've never heard of the Wright Brothers' sister, Katharine.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2009
  • Length: 29:00