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Let's Slam!
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: DC Youth Slam Team
The DC Youth Slam Team is an award-winning internationally acclaimed poetry group. Listen to their poems and find out how it all comes together wit...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KGNU Community Radio, and WNJR


  • Added: Aug 21, 2014
  • Length: 28:29
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with author Elizabeth McCracken
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Elizabeth McCracken, Credit: Edward Carey
Elizabeth McCracken gives us her take on the differences in writing novels, short stories, and tweets.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Richard Powers on Music
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source Shorts and Podcasts
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Why do books so often turn to music? Richard Powers, author of a new, music-filled novel Orfeo, speaks to the strength of songs and symphonies, inc...

Bought by KICI Iowa City, WABE, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Aug 12, 2014
  • Length: 12:57
  • Purchases: 3
A Conversation with novelist, Julie Otsuka
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Julie Otsuka, Credit: Robert Bessoir
Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Jul 11, 2014
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 1
Imagining Yoko Ono (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...

Bought by WJCT, KVNF, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Imagining Yoko Ono (Hour Long Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...

Bought by WCNY and WTJU


  • Added: May 09, 2014
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 2
A Conversation with David Mura
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: David Mura, Credit: Courtesy of American Program Bureau, Inc.
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Apr 16, 2014
  • Length: 27:29
  • Purchases: 1
Aging Voices Read “The Road Not Taken”
From: Open Orchard Productions
Series: The Harvest by Open Orchard Productions
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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
The Transcendentalists Are Coming!
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...

Bought by KPIP-LP, WRPI, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 28, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 3
The Student
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 20:08
  • Purchases: 2
Gusev
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 52:19
Dreams
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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The story this time is called “Dreams.” It’s a dense 7-page fantasy of the good life in the far wilds of Eastern Siberia. It’s a dream of freedom t...

Bought by KMXT


  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 41:36
  • Purchases: 1
Vanka
From: Open Source
Series: Radio Open Source: Reading Chekhov
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Vanka is a tiny tale that has the feel of Dickens, about a 9-year-old orphan in Moscow, pining for his grandpa in the village, his only vestige of ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 26:29
David Foster Wallace's "Infinite Boston"
From: Open Source
Series: Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Here’s how to read David Foster Wallace’s thousand-page door stop and masterpiece Infinite Jest: it’s a Boston novel the way Ulysses is a Dublin n...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Mar 25, 2014
  • Length: 58:34
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Tope Folarin-Winner of the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tope Folarin, Credit: David Fleming
Tope Folarin becomes the first writer born outside of Africa to win the Caine Prize with his short story set in Texas in an evangelical Nigerian ch...

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Mar 20, 2014
  • Length: 28:24
  • Purchases: 1
What's What: What is Poetry?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Ashley Bryan, Credit: Rama Hughes
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 44:14
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Neil Gaiman: A Reading and Interview
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
Aesthetic Bliss with Edna O'Brien and Lila Azam Zanganeh
From: Open Source
Caption: Edna O'Brien
We're succumbing to the enchantments of prose this hour, first with Edna O'Brien, that "scandalous woman" in the James Joyce and Samuel Beckett fam...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 1
New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Open Source
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

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


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Joe Plut on "Conversations with Jon Hassler"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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RealGoodWords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:44
Re-reading 'To Kill a Mockingbird'
From: With Good Reason
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Exploring why both the book and the film, "To Kill a Mockingbird," are still considered iconic and beloved, including an interview with Mary Badham...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KGOU


  • Added: Apr 17, 2008
  • Length: 29:57
  • Purchases: 3
Through Emerald Eyes: Liner Notes Special on Ireland
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Irish and Irish-American authors and artists explore the magical isle.

Bought by RadioStPete Florida, KPVL, Troy Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUNC & The Colorado Sound and more


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 18
Through Emerald Eyes/54-minute version
From: Liner Notes
Series: LINER NOTES
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Irish and Irish-American authors and artists explore the magical isle.

Bought by WCPN, Troy Public Radio, AMERICAN-FM Internet Radio, and KXOT Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 28, 2008
  • Length: 55:00
  • Purchases: 4
CamForum - Eco Imagination: David Abrams
From: Cambridge Forum
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

  • Added: Jun 28, 2007
  • Length: 28:59