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Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis.
- Added: Apr 01, 2019
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
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
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
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
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
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
Never underestimate the power of a poem.
- Added: Dec 08, 2020
- Length: 06:00
- Added: May 20, 2009
- Length: 02:56
- Purchases: 1
Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry
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- Added: Mar 23, 2005
- Length: 03:59
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 20, 2005
- Length: 01:36
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
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
Poetry about voting, candidates, and American politics/society.
- Added: Nov 05, 2016
- Length: 57:40
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...
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- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 4
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’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
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
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
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
We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...
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- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This hour we sit with Lydia Davis as she reads her beautifully honed, firecracker prose. She writes in the company of Montaigne, Emerson, Proust, B...
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- Added: Jan 27, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...
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- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
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
- Purchases: 3
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
