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For these veterans, poetry and prose help treat the moral injury of war
From: American Homefront Project
Caption: George Pettigrew leads a virtual Reader's Theater event for Kansas City veterans. Among those who read their original works Heather Smoot, who served in the Air Force., Credit: Missouri Humanities
In Kansas City, the Moral Injury Association of America sponsors a writing group that’s worked with thousands of veterans and family members since ...

Bought by KPBS, KUT, WRFA-LP, Texas Public Radio, and KCUR


  • Added: Dec 02, 2021
  • Length: 03:47
  • Purchases: 5
625: What Afghan Women Want You To Know / 626: More Than Just A Game, 10/2/2021
From: Wisconsin Public Radio
Series: To the Best of Our Knowledge
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HOUR ONE: 'What Afghan Women Want You to Know' - Teachers. Actors. Ancient rug weavers. Whisperers of forbidden poetry. The women of Afghanistan wa...

  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 01:59:00
Five Days in Spain: Muriel Rukeyser and the Revolutionary Muse
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
Caption: Barcelona - July 1936, Credit: Muriel Rukeyser, permission of William L. Rukeyser
Rowena Kennedy-Epstein describes Savage Coast as a young woman’s political and sexual awakening imbued with the anarchist spirit of the moment; it’...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and RADIOLEX


  • Added: Oct 13, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
Mimi's Guide
From: L.A. Theatre Works
Series: L.A. Theatre Works
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Frances Conroy stars as the muse of a poet who's consumed by the past

Bought by KKRN, KKRN, KCHW, WNJR, WCPN and more


  • Added: Jan 15, 2019
  • Length: 01:57:58
  • Purchases: 13
Oh! What A Poetical War!
From: Sue Zizza
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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
Syrian doctor escapes war, but faces new challenges in Germany
From: Catherine Girardeau
Caption: Dr. Abdelwahhab Azzawi, Credit: Courtesy of Abdelwahhab Azzawi
A profile of Syrian opthamologist, activist and poet Abdelwahhab Azzawi. He escaped two war zones and made it to freedom in Germany. But there are ...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2017
  • Length: 13:23
The Write Question - Saif Alsaegh - 220
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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An Iraqi Poet In Montana. Saif Alsaegh was a young boy living in Baghdad, Iraq, on September 11, 2001. At the time, he and the other members of his...

Bought by KGLT, Spokane Public Radio, KSJD, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 26, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: Wendell Affield - "Streams"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Wendell Affield grew up on a farm near Nebish, Minnesota. He's a Vietnam Veteran, wounded during his tour of duty on a gunboat in the Mekong Delta,...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:39
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "I Try To Imagine Eva Braun"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2013
  • Length: 02:00
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "Crutches"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
  • Purchases: 1
Readings about Conflict and Peace, Part 2
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Part 2 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 30, 2011
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 1
Death of the Liberal Class, Life of Our Inner Sky - Chris Hedges & Damion Searls
From: Open Source
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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 ...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 23, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Problem Solving, Then Poetry - Kwame Anthony Appiah & C.K. Williams
From: Open Source
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We're talking with Kwame Anthony Appiah and C.K. Williams this week. The philosopher and storyteller Kwame Anthony Appiah at Princeton is on the tr...

Bought by KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
A Few Reams of Freedom - Noam Chomsky & C.D. Wright
From: Open Source
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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 ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and Wyoming Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Finding Peace in Making Paper
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
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A twenty-five year old Marine veteran suffering from PTSD has found peace through making paper from his old uniforms. He's also found his voice...a...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KRUA, PRX Remix, KUOW, and Prairie Public


  • Added: Nov 04, 2010
  • Length: 04:11
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
From: Elizabeth Austen
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa reads from and discusses his latest collection, WARHORSES (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2008).

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 17, 2009
  • Length: 16:51
  • Purchases: 1
Freedom: A Cross-Generational Examination of the Costs of War
From: Searsport Speeper
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Veterans' stories presented and reflected on by students.

  • Added: Jun 03, 2009
  • Length: 33:48