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Building Bridges Through Children's Literature
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Co-founder of I’m Your Neighbor Books Kirsten Cappy builds bridges through children’s literature

Bought by WMPG, KMUN, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Mar 12, 2024
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 6
Sneaky Rules We Don't Know We Follow
From: KMUW
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Some of us like to be rule breakers, but here are a few rules of the English language we can’t help but follow. And we probably don’t even know the...

Bought by KRPS


  • Added: Feb 08, 2024
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
The Craft of Writing a POV by Randall "Jay" Andrews
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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I’ve gone over the different Points Of View many times. I was explaining at length the different forms of 3rd person and the views of 1st and 2nd p...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2024
  • Length: 29:34
Talking Taste With Mandy Naglich
From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)
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The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW) Episode 251 Exploring all things wine with you! In this episode of The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW), Kim and ...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2023
  • Length: 40:51
National Writers Series: Jack Driscoll
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five
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Brittany Cavallaro talks with Jack Driscoll.

Bought by WKAR


  • Added: Nov 10, 2023
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 1
Reading and Writing
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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Join our Kids Crew in a conversation with the beloved children’s authors, Goosebump’s RL Stine and Marc Brown, the author and illustrator of the Ar...

Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KTNA, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), Allegheny Mountain Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Nov 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20231106: Reading and Writing, 11/6/2023
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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Join our Kids Crew in a conversation with the beloved children’s authors, Goosebump’s RL Stine and Marc Brown, the author and illustrator of the Ar...

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 58:00
The Haunting Reality of Book Bans in America Today
From: KRCL
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Author Carmen Maria Machado's book “In the Dream House” appeared on high school classes’ recommended reading lists, and was subsequently targeted b...

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 25:22
The Ekphrasis Poetry Reading
From: New Letters on the Air
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a program of readings and conversation at Commerce Bank's The Box Gallery. Poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian ...

  • Added: Feb 08, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
Meet Performance Poet and Educator Amalia Ortiz
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Amalia Ortiz , Credit: Ned Meneses
Performance poet and theater arts director Amalia Ortiz discusses her work at SAY Sí, her own award-wining art, and the intersection between the two.

Bought by RADIOLEX, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KZUM, and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 5
Pocketful of Poems
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We learn how poetry can heal with our friends at Well Beings Studio, who create art with kids and families going through medical trauma like cancer...

Bought by KECG, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KTAL-LP [Las Cruces Community Radio], KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio), WUTC and more


  • Added: Aug 08, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
20220808: Pocketful of Poems, 8/8/2022
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We learn how poetry can heal with our friends at Well Beings Studio, who create art with kids and families going through medical trauma like cancer...

  • Added: Aug 03, 2022
  • Length: 58:00
Where Are the Books for Boys? A Conversation With Teacher Misty Jobe and Writer Will Weaver
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
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Who is being represented in new books? We are celebrating and lifting diverse voices in new books, those that have long been silenced but in doing ...

  • Added: Mar 07, 2022
  • Length: 14:21
Poet Randall Freisinger: Part 1
From: New Letters on the Air
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Poet Randall Freisinger is the author of five collections of poetry, including his 2019 poetry collection WINDTHROW & SALVAGE. He reads from early...

  • Added: Jan 25, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
Pocketful of Poems
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
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We learn how poetry can heal with our friends at Well Beings Studio, who create art with kids and families going through medical trauma like cancer...

Bought by KQRU FM LP, RadioFreePalmer, KSTK, Allegheny Mountain Radio, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 11
20210426: Pocketful of Poems, 4/26/2021
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We learn how poetry can heal with our friends at Well Beings Studio, who create art with kids and families going through medical trauma like cancer...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2021
  • Length: 58:00
GN_7.13_Dressed Up Education
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 7
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
Science Fiction
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour
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We explore science fiction with excerpts from classics scored by MeriDean, and original kids' Sci Fi radio stories. Mixed with excellent music by i...

Bought by KCHU, KQRU FM LP, WCNY, RadioFreePalmer, KHOL (Jackson Hole Community Radio) and more


  • Added: Nov 16, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
  • Purchases: 10
11162020: Science Fiction, 11/16/2020
From: The Children's Hour Inc.
Series: The Children's Hour (Subscribable)
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We explore science fiction with excerpts from classics scored by MeriDean, and original kids' Sci Fi radio stories. Mixed with excellent music.

  • Added: Nov 13, 2020
  • Length: 58:00
Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation
From: WFHB
Series: Interchange
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In her book, The Equivalents: A Story of Art, Female Friendship, and Liberation in the 1960s, published by Knopf, Maggie Doherty, tells the story o...

Bought by High Plains Public Radio and WHCP-LP Cambridge


  • Added: May 19, 2020
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 2
The Write Question - Free Verse Project - 422
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Claire Compton, Taylor White, and Nicole Gomez from the Free Verse Project: Voices from Montana's Juvenile Detention Centers speak about their work.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Loom Moon
From: Emily T Griffiths
Series: Device
Caption: Taken on January 31, 2018 during the "super blue blood moon"; a supermoon, blue moon, and lunar eclipse on the same night! Taken with a Canon 60D camera with a Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED AI-S lens using a 2.5 seconds-exposure f/5 at ISO 400. The clouds rolled , Credit: Bill Nguyen
Shane Haggard and Lisa Will from San Diego City College discuss what would happen to the Earth after a meteor knocks the moon closer to us, and wha...

  • Added: Sep 30, 2019
  • Length: 22:43
Poet Michael Bazzett talks about - and reads from - his book The Popol Vuh
From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse
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A poet with Cook County Connections was recently selected by The New York Times as having published one of the ten best poetry books of 2018. Mic...

  • Added: Mar 23, 2019
  • Length: 15:19
Shelf Discovery: The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield by Kathy Cooperman.
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week’s Shelf Discovery, Kristin fights for the arts with a love struck administrator in Kathy Cooperman’s The Very Principled Maggie Mayfield.

Bought by Harford Community Radio, KUPR low power FM, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WTJU


  • Added: Nov 05, 2018
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 4
Ms. Rockstrom
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: 2018 Martin Middle School Stories
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An English teacher at Martin Middle School shares her stories of breaking the rules and finding her inspiration.

  • Added: May 30, 2018
  • Length: 02:40