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The Mandorla Letters
From: KZUM
Series: Polley Music Library
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On this episode of the Polley Music Library Show, we talked about "The Mandorla Letters," the new book by flautist and composer Nicole Mitchell Gan...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2023
  • Length: 27:30
Hunting the Moon
From: melodically challenged
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This week on melodically challenged, we look to the heavens. We’ll be celebrating several successful NASA missions in 2022 that have extended human...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
The Untold Story of Mississippi River Mayhem with Author and Historian Dean Klinkenberg
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today's Untold Story of Central Minnesota, Arts & Cultural Heritage Producer Jeff Carmack dives into the Mississippi River and all its mayhem wi...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:27
Desolation Peak
From: Desert Oracle
Series: Desert Oracle Radio
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We are back in Joshua Tree with tales of desert creatures, snowy mountains, and the secret journals of Jack Kerouac newly published as Desolation P...

Bought by KFCF FM


  • Added: Nov 04, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
JUMPING AT SHADOWS
From: melodically challenged
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“Poetry begins where language starts: in the shadows and accidents of one person's life.”— Eavan Boland Welcome to another edition of melodically c...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Out in the Cold
From: melodically challenged
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Emily Dickinson said, “If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.” Welcome to another edi...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
On All Fours
From: melodically challenged
Series: The Best of melodically challenged Summer of 24
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Bobby Knight said, “Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.” Welcome to another edition of melodically challenged, when this week, we’re...

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
National Writers Series: Fredrik Backman
From: Interlochen Public Radio
Series: National Writers Series: Season Four
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Doug Stanton talks with author Fredrik Backman

Bought by WNMU-FM, WNED Buffalo, Michigan Radio, and WKAR


  • Added: Oct 10, 2022
  • Length: 54:31
  • Purchases: 4
The Cat's Out of the Bag!
From: melodically challenged
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Hippolyte Taine [Ipohleet Tehn] said “I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.” Welcome to anoth...

  • Added: Oct 07, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:00
Distance
From: melodically challenged
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I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream. Bruce Springsteen Welcome to this week’s melodically cha...

  • Added: Oct 03, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Facetime!
From: melodically challenged
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George Bernard Shaw said, “You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.” Welcome to this week’s melodically chal...

  • Added: Sep 27, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
Short Story Dispensary - Passing Cars by Randall Andrews
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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I lost time to a steady rhythmic swing and clicking of cars traveling over rails. Passing scenery like a thief with no passion for roots, just a tr...

  • Added: Jul 23, 2022
  • Length: 07:49
Past American Voice of novelist E.L. Doctorow
From: New Letters on the Air
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E.L. Doctorow passed away in July 2015, but left behind twelve novels, three volumes of short fiction, and a stage drama, winning most of the major...

Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KAAD-LP, WNJR, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jul 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Untold Story of the Archeological Dig at the Warren and MacDougall Farmstead in Morrison County
From: KVSC
Series: Untold Stories of Central Minnesota
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In today’s Untold Story of Central Minnesota, we travel way back in time to one of the original farmsteads in central Minnesota, the William W. War...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2022
  • Length: 27:55
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
Podcast - Author Mark Herschberg
From: Adam Scull
Series: EatSleepWrite.org
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Mark Herschberg is the author of ‘The Career Toolkit, (Essential Skills for Success that No One Taught You). Although written primarily for busines...

  • Added: Apr 13, 2022
  • Length: 20:06
The Write Question - Charmaine Wilkerson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Writer Charmaine Wilkerson discusses her bestselling debut novel, "Black Cake."

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


  • Added: Apr 12, 2022
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
Practicing Gratitude
From: melodically challenged
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I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude. Brene B...

  • Added: Mar 18, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
BEER.
From: melodically challenged
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Frank Zappa said, “You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some n...

  • Added: Mar 11, 2022
  • Length: 01:00:06
The Write Question - Robert Wrigley
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Robert Wrigley talks about his new essay collection, "Nemerov's Door" and reads from his upcoming collection of poetry, "The True Account of Myself...

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


  • Added: Dec 08, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 7
The Write Question - Laura Kolbe
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Doctor and writer Laura Kolbe talks about her new collection of poems, "Little Pharma."

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


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Novelist and Poet Gerald Vizenor
From: New Letters on the Air
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We honor Native American Heritage Month with U.S. veteran and writer, Gerald Vizenor. Raised on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota, Vizenor a...

Bought by KVNF, WNMU-FM, RadioFreePalmer, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WNJR


  • Added: Nov 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Write Question - Doug Chadwick
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author and wildlife biologist Doug Chadwick discusses his new book, "Four Fifths a Grizzly: A New Perspective on Nature that Just Might Save Us All."

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


  • Added: Nov 03, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Poet, editor, and translator, Wayne Miller
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Wayne Miller
Poet and editor Wayne Miller reads from his book, THE CITY, OUR CITY, a 2012 finalist for the William Carlos Williams Poetry Award. He also discus...

  • Added: Oct 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
The Ages
From: melodically challenged
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Andre Maurois said, “We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.” Welcome to this week’s melodica...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2021
  • Length: 01:00:06