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Caption: Norma Cole, poet
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.

Bought by KVNO, PRX Remix, KALW, KENW, and KHSU


  • Added: Apr 01, 2019
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: Cornelius Eady, poet, Credit: Lynda Koolish
Cornelius Eady reenacts a scene of racial discrimination from the film A Raisin in the Sun.

Bought by KVNO, KHSU, KALW, KENW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Oct 03, 2016
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 5
Caption: A BAGGAGE TICKET FROM RUKEYSER’S TRANSATLANTIC VOYAGE FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON (1936)
Our show centers on the book The Life of Poetry by Muriel Rukeyser which can be seen as an anti-fascist manifesto pitting poetry - the poetic as a ...

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  • Added: Jan 26, 2021
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: A drilling crew poses for the above photo in 1931 (without respirators) in the Hawks Nest Tunnel. Courtesy of Elkem Metals Collection, West Virginia State Archives.
Today, we’ll resurface three poets on the political Left who wrote during the 1930s and 40s: Muriel Rukeyser, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet....

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  • Added: Sep 15, 2020
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Here is the uncut recording of Bill O'Neill's poetry reading at Collected Works earlier this year. This track accompanies this week's show -- The S...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2012
  • Length: 23:18
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Robert Lynch is president and CEO of Americans for the Arts, which from its inception over 55 years ago has been committed to educating and partner...

  • Added: Mar 31, 2017
  • Length: 37:34
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Today we feature four poets who help us see our own predicaments – one who shows us we contain multitudes; one whose life and writing was always an...

  • Added: Apr 05, 2022
  • Length: 59:00
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On this program we talk with Amde Hamilton of the Watts Prophets, who reads poems from his book Me Today, You Tomorrow, and recounts how out of the...

  • Added: Jun 29, 2020
  • Length: 58:29
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Never underestimate the power of a poem.

  • Added: Dec 08, 2020
  • Length: 06:00
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Andy attends a poetry reading on Mill Ave.

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  • Added: May 20, 2009
  • Length: 02:56
  • Purchases: 1
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Poetry and music which reacts to racism and social unrest.

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  • Added: Jun 06, 2020
  • Length: 56:34
  • Purchases: 1

  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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The art and poetry of Bob Dylan's music

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59
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Biker Poetry by J. Barrett Wolf, Highway Poet

  • Added: Nov 20, 2005
  • Length: 01:36
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Department of Poetic Justice, here at The River Is Wide , we offer an original composition, titled 'LIMBO'. There is such confusion and f...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2016
  • Length: 03:25
Caption: Mike Gold, Ann Petry, and Thomas McGrath
Alan Wald's Literary Left Trilogy investigates aspects of intellectual, literary, and cultural movements and figures associated with left-wing poli...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2021
  • Length: 59:03
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Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.

  • Added: Nov 05, 2016
  • Length: 57:40
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

Bought by WLPR , KWMR, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 4
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This Extended Version of “Captivating Animals” with Thalia Field includes a discussion of Émile Zola and his attempt to recreate in fiction the sci...

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  • Added: Nov 16, 2021
  • Length: 01:23:38
  • Purchases: 1
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
Caption: Quiddity International Literary Journal and Public-Radio Program
Ruben Quesada and Norma Cantu sit down with Quiddity‘s Amy Sayre Baptista in Part I discussion of Latin@ poetics in regards to their place in The A...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2014
  • Length: 17:35
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nadia, Anna, Riya, and Nadia Trinidad from Sequoyah School in Pasadena, California
It was 1973 when the president of Chile was thrown out of office by a military coup. That’s the backdrop for the novel “I Lived on Butterfly Hill” ...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 22:22
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Artist Kelly Schirmann discusses her newest book of poetry and prose, "The New World."

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

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  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2

  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 27:15