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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
“Is it my greed? Is it my greed that propels me to behave like this? How do I learn to share?
Is it my fear? Is it my fear that propels me to behav...
- Added: Sep 20, 2021
- Length: 09:53
“Hope has always been necessary, but I do wonder if we’ve really ever had it.”
Set against the backdrop of COVID-19 in New York, and rooted in com...
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- Added: Sep 02, 2021
- Length: 07:05
- Purchases: 1
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
What is your perspective on Democracy? This week we explore what democracy means.
- Added: Mar 03, 2021
- Length: 59:00
Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel continue to discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a co...
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- Added: Feb 10, 2021
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 2
What part can creativity play in such turbulent times?
We speak to six women artists and curators responding to the challenges of the past year wi...
- Added: Jan 27, 2021
- Length: 28:24
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
Never underestimate the power of a poem.
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 06:00
Exactly one hundred years ago this month, at a time of political polarization and the Spanish Flu pandemic, William Butler Yeats published “The Sec...
- Added: Nov 20, 2020
- Length: 27:15
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
Today we’re joined by two of the four hosts of the Black Myths Podcast which is produced in Indianapolis: Too Black, a spoken word poet and teachin...
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- Added: Jul 07, 2020
- Length: 59:04
- Purchases: 1
Bernes work seeks to understand the best ways to disrupt the distribution systems that supply us with products to consume while describing the inef...
- Added: Oct 01, 2019
- Length: 59:01
Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
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Logistics, the management of the flow of things between the point of origin and the point of consumption, logistics, has its origins in military ca...
- Added: Jun 19, 2018
- Length: 58:14
On this edition of Making Contact, we’ll explore how the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival has challenged mainstream cultur...
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- Added: Jan 02, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
The conviction of Alger Hiss for perjury in 1950, continues to define the terms of what it means to American. But the definition seems always profe...
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- Added: Sep 05, 2017
- Length: 58:00
- Purchases: 3
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
Iranian born, New York based artist Bahar Behbahani talks about the layers of poetry and politics she discovered while researching the legendary Pe...
- Added: Feb 02, 2017
- Length: 13:53
He straddles the more essential American Century, from the failure of Reconstruction to the March on Washington, not demarcated by round numbers an...
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- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 58:03
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Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 57:40
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
Riots are coming and with greater intensity and frequency, according to poet and political theorist Joshua Clover. Clover will give a talk on riots...
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 09:53
How can a woman determine how she is perceived by the world, and even by herself? On this edition, we hear stories of women who are using their bo...
- Added: Jan 15, 2015
- Length: 29:00
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Interview: Evans talks about being an organizer, her music, and her plans for the future along with playing three of her favorite songs.
- Added: Aug 22, 2014
- Length: 28:04
