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Dream-Inspired Poetry with Joan Gelfand
From: Katherine Bell
Series: The Dream Journal
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Why are dream-inspired poems so powerful? We speak today with award-winning poet, author of multiple books, and committed activist, the dynamic Joa...

  • Added: Mar 25, 2024
  • Length: 54:58
MN Reads: "Finding Family" by Laura Purdie Salas
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Laura Purdie Salas talks about the Minnesota Book Award Nominee "Finding Family: The Duckling Raised By Loons"

  • Added: Mar 21, 2024
  • Length: 07:10
Breaking Bread 23
From: melodically challenged
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Welcome to melodically challenged, where this week’s show is “Breaking Bread”—a celebration of what we eat, what we cook, and what we share. In tod...

  • Added: Dec 06, 2023
  • Length: 01:00:06
S08 Ep06: Words and Music, Part 5, 10/7/2023
From: WCNY
Series: Feminine Fusion
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This week we pair women's music with women's poetry. It's a chance to sit back and enjoy the artistry, without a lot of description or background....

  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 58:30
All for a Library Card
From: Brooklyn Public Library
Series: Borrowed and Banned
Caption: Borrowed and Banned logo, Credit: John Snowden
When a high school teacher in Norman, Oklahoma shared a QR code with her students that would grant them access to BPL’s digital collection, she too...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 25:47
  • Purchases: 1
Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Celebrating Reproductive Choice: Felicia Kornbluh, A WOMAN’S LIFE IS A HUMAN LIFE & Dolen Perkins-Valdez, TAKE MY HAND
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with historian Felicia Kornbluh about her book, A Woman’s Life Is a Human Life: My Mother, Our Neighbor, and the Journey from Reproductive ...

  • Added: Mar 15, 2023
  • Length: 59:00
In the Beginning
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Tony Kushner
Pulitzer Prize winners Tony Kushner, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, as well as Sherman Alexie, Naomi Shihab Nye, and the late August Wilson share some...

Bought by WDCB and KAAD-LP


  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: “Break Point” by Sheri Brenden
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Sheri Brenden talks about her new book “Break Point”

  • Added: Jan 12, 2023
  • Length: 13:30
The Apple Seed - The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde
From: BYUradio/KUMT/KBYU-FM
Series: The Apple Seed
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A reading of Oscar Wilde's Classic Ghost Story

Bought by KTXK, KKRN, Robin Hood Radio/ WHDD AM 1020/FM 91.9-WLHV FM 88.1 /WGHQ AM 920, WVPE, and KSJE


  • Added: Jan 04, 2023
  • Length: 52:50
  • Purchases: 5
Conversations: Laura Kolbe, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Conversations
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In this episode, Emily speaks with poet, physician, and medical ethicist Dr. Laura Kolbe about her poetry collection, Little Pharma, the languages ...

  • Added: May 09, 2022
  • Length: 45:12
So Now What? A Conversation with author Laura Munson
From: Lisa Lucca
Series: Live True with Lisa Lucca
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Lisa Lucca talks with NYT bestselling author, Laura Munson about life, creativity, and her book, Willa's Grove, which asks the timely question: So ...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2022
  • Length: 55:00
More Children's Books with Librarian Tracy Kampa (October 2021)
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Tracy Kampa recommends: Red, White, and Whole, by Rajani LaRocca While I Was Away, by Waka T. Brown Mel Fell, by Corey R. Tabor It Fell from the S...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2021
  • Length: 13:03
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers THE LOVE SONGS OF W.E.B. DuBOIS & The And I Thought Ladies
From: Francesca Rheannon
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We talk with Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, award-winning poet and now novelist, about The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, just out from Harper Collins. Th...

  • Added: Sep 06, 2021
  • Length: 58:38
The Write Question - Maggie Shipstead
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and travel writer Maggie Shipstead discusses her newest novel "Great Circle" and what drives explorers to pursue the unknown.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Kristin Knight Pace RERUN
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This is a rerun of Sarah Aronson's interview with Kristin Knight Pace, one of thirty-one women in the world to have completed both the Iditarod and...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., and Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
From: New Letters on the Air
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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
Women Writing Women
From: New Letters on the Air
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In this special anthology program novelist Meg Wolitzer and poet Molly Peacock both discuss the importance of writing about the lives and work of w...

Bought by KBIA and WDCB


  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
WorldCanvass: The Ghanaian-American Experience in Literature and Art
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Renowned author Yaa Gyasi, whose novel Homegoing won the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for best first book and the Pen/Hemingwa...

  • Added: Mar 02, 2021
  • Length: 01:21:49
The Write Question - Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Poets and curators Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel discuss the anthology "We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics," a collection of ...

Bought by Spokane Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
National Writers Series: Albert Woodfox
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Three
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WDET's Jerome Vaughn talks with Albert Woodfox, author of "Solitary."

Bought by Michigan Radio, WKAR, and WCMU Michigan


  • Added: Jan 05, 2021
  • Length: 54:30
  • Purchases: 3
WoodSongs 706: Mike Scott/The Waterboys
From: WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour
Series: WoodSongs
Caption: Mike Scott of The Waterboys on the WoodSongs Stage.
On this week's WoodSongs broadcast, folksinger Michael Johnathon welcomes Mike Scott the Scottish bandleader of the legendary group The Waterboys.

Bought by KUAR, Angelica Community Radio, KTRL, KTRL, WEJP-LP 107.1 and more


  • Added: Jan 04, 2021
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 31
At the Fishhouses
From: World Ocean Observatory
Series: World Ocean Radio
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Our annual gift to fellow ocean lovers: a reading of "At the Fishhouses" by Elizabeth Bishop, a poem from 1955 that distills Bishop's seaside medit...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Dec 28, 2020
  • Length: 04:38
  • Purchases: 1
Thanksgathering Day
From: Will Duchon
Series: Words & Music
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Poetry and music reflecting on the Thanksgiving holiday.

  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 58:29