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A reading of a satirical poem by Michael Henrik Wynn. The poem is dedicated to the Harvard pathologist who recently was caught peddling body parts ...

  • Added: Jan 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:47
Caption: The Farmer & Adele
Award winning country & Western swing trio The Farmer & Adele recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Also, inte...

  • Added: Aug 22, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Dom Flemmons & Andy Hedges
Grammy award winning oldtime singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Dom Flemons with renowned cowboy p...

  • Added: Aug 16, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Pipp Gillette
Legendary award winning Texas cowboy singer-songwriter and poet Pipp Gillette recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkan...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2023
  • Length: 58:59
Caption: Rick Barot
Filipino-American poet Rick Barot started writing nonfiction. Now a poet with four award-winning books to his name, he discusses how the writing pr...

Bought by KRBD, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WJCU


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Spoon talks about the strange nature time takes on when serving a life sentence. Spoon reads a poem about bugs and Matthew visits the blooming of t...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2020
  • Length: 20:00
Caption: Andy Hedges
Cowboy poet, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and archivist Andy Hedges recorded live at Ozark Folk Center State Park in Mountain View, Arkansas. Als...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2020
  • Length: 58:59
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Staceyann Chin has just published her first anthology of poems. She has been featured on Bro...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, and WRIR


  • Added: Jan 23, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 4
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Public art meets poetry in the month-long festival known as O, Miami. We sit down with visual artists Najja Moon and Michelle Lisa Polissaint and O...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 51:46
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A story about my life-long love of language and poetry -- its richness as a spoken form and how it solidified despite (and because of) the confini...

  • Added: Mar 21, 2019
  • Length: 07:58
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How do you do become an empowered woman when you're not yet a woman? A tribute to teenage Betty Friedans and Gloria Steinams everywhere. The Mortif...

  • Added: Apr 08, 2018
  • Length: 23:26
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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: "Awkward" - We've ...

  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 01:58:57
Caption: Uyayoan Noel
Urayoán Noel considers the pleasures of coffee and how those pleasures may differ between the English and Spanish languages.

Bought by KALW, KVNO, KTNA, KENW, PRX Remix and more


  • Added: Nov 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 7
Caption: Douglas Kearney, poet, Credit: Rafael Hernandez
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.

Bought by KALW, KHSU, and KENW


  • Added: Jun 29, 2017
  • Length: 04:00
  • Purchases: 3
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An unusual and irreverent comic strip about a misfit cat served as inspiration to 20th century poet e e cummings.

  • Added: Feb 08, 2016
  • Length: :58
Caption: Frank O'Hara
American poet Frank O'Hara got into trouble with his overbearing mother.

  • Added: Feb 03, 2016
  • Length: :58
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Poetry about the kitchen, food, and the emotional associations we form with both.

  • Added: Oct 10, 2015
  • Length: 55:43
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He likes music, physical books and coffeehouses. And he...

  • Added: Sep 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:36
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Anthony Swann has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:39
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Poetry and music about entering a natural realm.

  • Added: Mar 28, 2015
  • Length: 48:22
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
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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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An interview with poet, teacher, and reigning Vermont poetry slam champion, Geof Hewitt.

  • Added: Oct 23, 2013
  • Length: 49:37
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In 2009, the Portland Police Department faced down a daunting task: writing poetry.

Bought by KUER, KFAI Minneapolis, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 02, 2013
  • Length: 05:11
  • Purchases: 3
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1