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Affrilachian Poet Frank X Walker
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
From Combat to College
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Are colleges and universities ready for the influx of veterans returning from military service?

  • Added: Jan 31, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
Patrick DeWitt discusses The Sisters Brothers
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Patrick DeWitt is a novelist who lives in Oregon.

  • Added: Jun 15, 2011
  • Length: 27:37
Wallace Stroby discusses "Cold Shot to the Heart"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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A former newspaperman, Wallace Stroby lives in New Jersey.

  • Added: Mar 24, 2011
  • Length: 26:32
Scott Montgomery discusses the crime scene
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Scott Montgomery is a fiction writer and crime novel taste-maker, and bookseller in Austin, Texas.

  • Added: Dec 13, 2010
  • Length: 28:46
What's the Word? "Voices from the Ojibwe Nation"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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Three members of Ojibwe communities, which reach from Michigan to Montana in the United States and from Quebec to Saskatchewan in Canada, share the...

Bought by KZYX, KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 19
What's the Word? "American Indian and Alaska-Native Tribal Traditions"
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Honors National American Indian and Alaska-Native Heritage Month
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A celebration of American Indian and Alaska-Native tribal traditions

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WLIW, WNMU-FM, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Oct 09, 2009
  • Length: 29:10
  • Purchases: 27
Show 2: Dylan and the Three Kings
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King in Folk Mode
Radical Solitude in "Just Like a Woman" and a Radio Drama

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting, WRGY, Red River Radio Network (E. Texas/Louisiana/Arkansas/Mississippi) and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 8
Show 1: Dylan as Poet
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

Bought by WCNY, Prairie Public, RadioFreePalmer, KPIP-LP, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
  • Purchases: 12
The Mindful Path to Sustainability
From: Bill Baue
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Stephanie Kaza links buddhism and sustainability in her new book, MINDFULLY GREEN: A Personal and Spiritual Guide to Whole Earth Thinking. Sea Cha...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2009
  • Length: 29:03
Show 3: The Joker and the Thief
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Folksong Night in Gunnison
Joker and Thief: Two Masks of Bob Dylan

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KZYX, WRGY, Cove Mountain Educational Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 9
What's the Word? Puerto Rican Literature on the Island and in the United States
From: Modern Language Association
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Explores issues of national and cultural identity central to Puerto Rican literature

Bought by KZYX, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., New England Public Media, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KHNS and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 7
What's the Word? Cosmopolitanism in Latin America
From: Modern Language Association
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During the early and mid-twentieth century, many Latin American writers engaged with international literary and cultural movements.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KRZA, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, WRNC-LP and more


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 6
King of Methlehem - Mark Lindquist
From: KUOW
Series: Sound Focus
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Novelist and prosecuting attorney Mark Lindquist dives deep into the world of meth dealers in his new novel, The King of Methlehem. KRAK

  • Added: Jul 31, 2008
  • Length: 18:25
What's the Word? Literary Roots of Opera
From: Modern Language Association
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Carmen, Eugene Onegin, Falstaff, and their literary predecessors

Bought by 'The Sea', WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Sep 17, 2007
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 9
The Sopranos and Hamlet
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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"And the rest is silence" is the famous, much-praised last line of Hamlet - it applies to the cut to sudden-black at the end of The Sopranos, doesn...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:55
The Sopranos and the Closure-Junkies
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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we're all closure-junkies - craving resolutions in the endings of the stories we encounter - can we break the habit long enough to appreciate the e...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 07:09
The Sopranos, or the Tiger?
From: Paul Levinson
Series: The Sopranos Ending - A Modern Masterpiece?
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first of series of special analysis of The Sopranos' ending ... here, I compare it to the famous ending of Stockton's The Lady or The Tiger...

  • Added: Jun 23, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
What's the Word? Shakespearean Queens
From: Modern Language Association
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Gertrude, Cleopatra, and Margaret--perspectives on women and power

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, CHSR-FM 97.9, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: Apr 26, 2007
  • Length: 30:00
  • Purchases: 5
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
From: WNYC
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WNYC presents "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself." Hour hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, the program peels back Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and we disco...

Bought by WKMS, 'The Sea', WLPR , KUER, WRGY and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 53