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Building Bridges Through Children's Literature

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

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

From: Mark Lenzi
Series: The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)

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 ...

National Writers Series: Jack Driscoll

From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Five

Brittany Cavallaro talks with Jack Driscoll.

Bought by WKAR

The Haunting Reality of Book Bans in America Today

From: KRCL

Author Carmen Maria Machado's book “In the Dream House” appeared on high school classes’ recommended reading lists, and was subsequently targeted b...

The Ekphrasis Poetry Reading

From: New Letters on the Air

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 ...

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

Poet Randall Freisinger: Part 1

From: New Letters on the Air

Poet Randall Freisinger is the author of five collections of poetry, including his 2019 poetry collection WINDTHROW & SALVAGE. He reads from early...

Of Her Kind: Radcliffe’s Messy Experiment in Women’s Liberation

From: WFHB
Series: Interchange

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

The Write Question - Free Verse Project - 422

From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question

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

Poet Michael Bazzett talks about - and reads from - his book The Popol Vuh

From: WTIP
Series: The Roadhouse

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...

Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (half hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood.

Pulitzer 100: The Wondrous Junot Diaz (hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: WGR Special Series

-Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz talks about love, loss, and his New Jersey childhood. -Jon Pineda's memoir "Sleep in Me" chronicles his s...

Bought by KZYX and KEDT

Allusionist 25: Toki Pona

From: The Allusionist
Series: The Allusionist

There’s a language which is said to be the smallest language in the world. It has around 123 words, five vowels, nine consonants, and apparently yo...

Bought by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Uptalk on Jeopardy (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Uptalk is that rising, questioning tone some people use when ending a statement. And women aren't the only ones who do it—so finds a study of conte...

Bought by WCNY, WVTF, KEDT, KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTJU and more

Studs Terkel in Conversation with Oliver Sacks

From: The WFMT Radio Network

On December 4, 1985 Studs sat down with famed neurologist and author Oliver Sacks. Although the interview was supposed to center on his newest publ...

Bought by Radio Catskill, KCMJ Community Radio, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KPIP-LP, KVNF and more

Nuts and Bolts: Our Brains on STEM

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

What if you could change not just how much you know, but your actual intelligence? (And more...)

Bought by WCNY, WYSO, KPVL, WABE, WTJU and more

Nathaniel Philbrick winner of the 2000 National Book Award for his history In the Heart of the Sea talks about the glories of Moby-Dick

From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works

In his slim, lucid and compulsively readable book Why Read Moby-Dick, Nathaniel Philbrick makes an enthusiastic case for taking a look at Melville...

Bought by Prairie Public, KPIP-LP, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WNJR

MIW #8 Megan Gebhart - Author of 52 Cups

From: Allegra Bandy
Series: Making It Work Radio

Caption: Megan Gebhart on MIW, Credit: Allegra Bandy

Making It Work Season 1-Episode 8 with Megan Gebhart, author of 52 Cups

American Sanctuaries

From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR celebrates libraries with this audio anthology of poets, novelists, and memoirists who talk about how they found inspiration...

Bought by WNJR

A Burnable Book (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Murder, mystery, and poetry come together in medieval scholar Bruce Holsinger’s new novel set in Chaucer’s London.

Bought by WJCT, Harford Community Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WMNF, WLIW and more

What are you reading? (Asked to 4th Graders)

From: Hank Rosenfeld
Series: Folk Journalism

With budget cuts closing many Los Angeles school libraries, students told Hank Rosenfeld about their love of books and what they were currently re...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM

“You sound like you’re not from around here.” (Half Hour Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WJCT and KVSC

“You sound like you’re not from around here.” (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

Within seconds of hearing someone speak, we make judgments about that person and their background, just based on their accent.

Bought by WCNY, KTSW 89.9, KREV-LP, WNJR, and WTJU

Behind Bars (Hour Long Version)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes

From Tolstoy to Lermontov, the program that’s putting the Russian classics to work—in a juvenile detention center.

Bought by WCNY, KPIP-LP, and WTJU

From Combat to College (half hour)

From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes

With the end of the War in Iraq, tens of thousands of soldiers have returned home, and many of them are going to college. But the transition to aca...

Bought by WJCT and KCPW Salt Lake City

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