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Caption: Hope (A Three Part Series)
HOUR ONE: "Hope: Where Does It Come From?” – We begin our three part series on hope. Is it something we’re innately born with or something we can c...

  • Added: Apr 19, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Tommy Pico on Live Wire, Credit: Jennie Baker
This episode practices "letting go" with poet Tommy Pico, comedian Emily Heller, and journalist Eli Saslow, with music The Helio Sequence.

  • Added: Apr 04, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
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: Eileen Myles on Live Wire, Credit: Jennie Baker
In this episode, we hear from two celebrated writers during the Portland Book Festival - author Luis Alberto Urrea and poet Eileen Myles. Plus, Liv...

  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Guy and Fabrizio pay homage to the legendary blues duo Sonny & Brownie.
On this week's encore broadcast of WoodSongs, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes blues master Guy Davis and Italian harmonica virtuso Fabrizio P...

Bought by WLIW, RadioFreePalmer, KRZA, WEKU, WETS and more


  • Added: Jan 31, 2019
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 11
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HOUR ONE: "New Voices In Native Writing" - Tommy Orange and Terese Mailhot are bringing a new perspective to Native American writing. But can you c...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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HOUR ONE: "What Can We Learn From Teens?" - Teenage activists are finding their voices. What can we learn from them? HOUR TWO: "Procrastination" ...

  • Added: Jan 10, 2019
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Hayan Charara considers how the world would be different today if certain historically significant events had not taken place in the late 1990s.

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Dec 21, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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HOUR ONE: "Religion Without Doctrine" - Is spiritual experience, not belief, the basis of religion? This hour, a curious look at faith. HOUR TWO:...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: At the Commonwealth Club of CA
After Brief But Spectacular creator Steve Goldbloom filmed 94-year-old retired English teacher Flossie Lewis and “Black Girl Magic” poet activist M...

Bought by KWIT, KWMR, KUT, KKRN, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 13, 2018
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 11
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HOUR ONE: 'Loving Bees' - Bees are endangered, but all over the world, people are stepping up to save them — in backyards, science labs, and the ur...

  • Added: Jul 27, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
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Kenyatta Rogers distracts himself with writing during an uncomfortable flight from Chicago to Los Angeles.

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Elaine Kahn, poet
Elaine Kahn meditates on care, loss, and the uncertainty of the future.

Bought by Raven Radio, KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: May 31, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Noel Black, poet
Noel Black imagines singing karaoke on a yacht to the music of Michael McDonald.

Bought by Raven Radio, KHSU, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: May 25, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Mary Cisper, poet
Mary Cisper mediates on loss and grief after the death of her former husband.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: May 21, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

Bought by WSLR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: John Lennox, poet
John Lennox summons the presence of a friend who died suddenly and at a young age.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: May 11, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Brothers Oliver and Chris Wood pursued their successful musical journeys separately until their mother’s battle with and subsequent death from ALS ...

  • Added: May 09, 2018
  • Length: :45
Caption: Anjuli Raza Kolb, poet
Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb describes how her grandfather rewrote verses of the Qur’an using only the @ sign on his typewriter.

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


  • Added: May 07, 2018
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 5
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For Mother's Day: we bring you a discussion by women of color writers and poets who contributed to the anthology, Revolutionary Mothering: Love on ...

Bought by WVAS


  • Added: May 05, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nick Twemlow, poet
Nick Twemlow navigates the often bizarre and alienating world of the modern office.

Bought by KHSU, KALW, and KENW


  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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We talk with poet Kathryn Levy about her latest poetry volume Reports (New Rivers Press, 2013). Then we hear an extended excerpt from our 2008 inte...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2018
  • Length: 59:01
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HOUR ONE: "Handwork" - More than 38 million Americans knit or crochet. This hour, we'll explore the therapeutic value of drawing, knitting and othe...

  • Added: Apr 17, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:58
Caption: Feliz Lucia Molina, poet
Feliz Lucia Molina remembers her life as a child while growing up in the San Fernando Valley.

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, KENW, and KALW


  • Added: Apr 16, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Roberto Harrison, poet
Roberto Harrison imagines a time when death itself will be artificial.

Bought by KUER, KENW, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 4