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Caption: Pamela Sneed's poetic memoir "Funeral Diva" is described as a “coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s.”, Credit: Patricia Silva
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...

Bought by KALW and WORT


  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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It’s been a rough year. So, we gathered all the good news we could find to brighten your podcast feed. Hear kids read to a therapy dog, a library l...

Bought by WCNY and WMPG


  • Added: Mar 26, 2021
  • Length: 25:16
  • Purchases: 2
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Featuring the popular poetry of the time before and during the Great War: the Music Hall songs; the songs the soldiers sang; the poems that served ...

Bought by KAAD-LP, Prairie Public, and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In mourning at his wife's grave, Edgar Poe encounters unnatural and supernatural beings.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:00
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
As he lies dying in the hospital, Edgar Poe drifts in and out of consciousness, mingling strange dreams with the sounds of the hospital.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:39
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the hospital where he lies dying, alarming sensations bleed into Edgar Poe's fevered hallucinations.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:07
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Mourning for his lost love compels Edgar Poe to inhabit his poem "The Raven."

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 21:11
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe is confronted by his doppelganger and has some words with a mummy.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In the library of an old decaying mansion, Edgar Poe awakes into a nightmare.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 19:37
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
Edgar Poe arrives at the Antarctic Pole in search of a secret passage to the Beyond.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 22:05
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
In Antarctica Edgar Poe finds a secret passage between this world and the next.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 34:58
Caption: Poecast, Credit: Art by Blue Bliss
An art song that tells the story of Edgar Poe's passion, death and afterlife.

  • Added: Jul 08, 2018
  • Length: 24:03
Caption: Some of Doris Kelly's handmade cards.
In the early 1930s, a boy played a prank on a girl. The girl, Doris Kelly Hall, swore revenge. What followed was over 70 years of harassing limeric...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2018
  • Length: 21:29
Caption: A banner advertising the Queer-Straight Alliance at Interlake High School in Bellevue., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/MIMANSA DOGRA
The majority of American youth age 13-20 don't identify as completely straight, and most know someone who uses a gender neutral pronoun, according ...

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 15:12
Caption: RadioActive hosts Paul Kiefer and Hassan Abdi., Credit: KUOW PHOTO/JENNY ASARNOW
RadioActive youth producers take a look at one of the most important things in their lives: school.

  • Added: Sep 14, 2017
  • Length: 12:12
Caption: Jim, A radio play by Josephine Halbert, Credit: original drawing by Josephine Halbert
The story of a 1960s transatlantic 'rock and roll' romance, created for radio. Laura remembers her love affair with Jim, a well known American rock...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2017
  • Length: 01:05:40
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Tommy Pico’s first book is one long poem in the form of a text — call it an epic sext. But it doesn’t just chronicle Pico’s dalliances with "boys, ...

Bought by KALW


  • Added: Jun 15, 2017
  • Length: 24:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Poetry and music that explores the spiritual dimensions of being alive.

  • Added: Apr 14, 2017
  • Length: 53:46
Caption: RadioActive Youth Producer Leija Farr, Credit: KUOW / RadioActive staff
“In a place that will never understand you are amazing, in a place that will put fire to you then say you are callous, they will burn you then say ...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 31, 2015
  • Length: 05:43
  • Purchases: 1
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An atmospheric poem for Halloween.

  • Added: Oct 25, 2015
  • Length: 03:17
Caption: We be illin'., Credit: Jenny Asarnow
RadioActive Youth Producers Madeline Ewbank and Srikar Penumaka bring you tales of blogs, bubble tea, Breathe Rights and being afraid.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2015
  • Length: 15:55
Caption: Beck Eldridge, Credit: Laura Flynn
Making Contact partnered with the 2014 National Poetry Slam to produce this special open mic highlighting the power of thoughtful, truth telling, c...

Bought by XRAY.fm and WNJR


  • Added: Sep 22, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This poem written and read by talented high school student, Ellery Stritzinger, amusingly compares a flamingo's search for identity to that of a te...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2014
  • Length: 02:46
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Song Story features songwriters telling the true stories behind their original songs. This pre-season sneak-peek features spoken-word poet and hip-...

  • Added: Apr 28, 2014
  • Length: 10:45
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Inspired by Frost’s focus on the choices we make throughout our lives, Sarah Milad has recorded voices from progressive ages to read his poem. The ...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2014
  • Length: 01:17