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This Black History Month Special features 22nd Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, writer and poet Saeed Jones, and music from singer-songwriter Meklit.
- Added: Feb 01, 2024
- Length: 59:01
By all appearances, John Lennon was working on a tell-all memoir in the final years of his life. Every day, he poured into diaries his raw thoughts...
- Added: Jan 06, 2024
- Length: 15:02
This episode features journalist Ari Shapiro (All Things Considered) and comedian and TV writer Demi Adejuyigbe.
- Added: Jan 03, 2024
- Length: 58:59
Mike Curato talks about his award-winning graphic novel Flamer, his writing practice, and how it feels to have his story vaulted into national head...
- Added: Nov 02, 2023
- Length: 16:39
What makes someone impossible to forget?
- Added: Apr 13, 2023
- Length: 59:08
Poet Michelle Boisseau died November 15, 2017 from cancer at age 62. In this interview conducted earlier this year at the Kansas City Public Libra...
- Added: Dec 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Army linguist and intelligence specialist Kayla Williams has authored two books that unveil not only her own service, but offer a fearlessly unapol...
- Added: Jan 12, 2021
- Length: 52:09
Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you. – ...
- Added: Jan 10, 2021
- Length: 58:01
This episode feature author Jami Attenberg, podcaster James Kim, and music from Federale.
- Added: Jul 30, 2020
- Length: 59:00
We mark Veteran's Day with two interviews featuring Alan Proctor. His book, THE SWEDEN FILE: MEMOIR OF AN AMERICAN EX-PATRIATE, was named one of th...
- Added: Nov 12, 2019
- Length: 29:00
Arab-American writer Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis and is now a long-time resident of San Antonio and the 2018 winner of the Texas Institu...
- Added: Jun 19, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We kick off National Preservation Week and continue our celebration of National Poetry Month by pulling from our audio archives to look back on the...
- Added: Apr 24, 2019
- Length: 29:00
NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR begins National Poetry Month with Edward Hirsch, a poet and "MacArthur genius" who was the editor of THE BEST AMERICAN POETR...
- Added: Apr 10, 2019
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Bonnie Bolling, the mother of four grown sons, has been the editor-in-chief of VERDAD magazine since 2006, and now, she and her husband divide the...
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- Added: May 16, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
From: New Letters on the Air
For Black History Month, we present THE 19th U.S. Poet Laureate (2012-14) and former Mississippi Poet Laureate (2012-16), Natasha Trethewey, who wo...
- Added: Feb 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Amy King considers how the media represent race and police violence.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 04:53
Alli Warren mingles tropes of baseball, horticulture, and birdwatching as she celebrates her life.
- Added: Oct 18, 2016
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Heidi Holtan speaks with novelist and poet Rachel L. Coyne about her new book "The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake." Rachel's book has recently ...
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- Added: Mar 28, 2016
- Length: 12:55
- Purchases: 1
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, talked to Dr Kate Macdonald ...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 54:00
Songwriter Tai Shan talks about her approach to writing songs inspired by Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Written and performed for the mo...
- Added: Apr 19, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Julia Child introduces the Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, who gives a magnificent performance of VIOLETS, a story about fixing lunch for an important ...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 26:52
Duluth journalist Wendy K. Webb her debut creepy novel "The Tale of Halcyon Crane," ("creepy" in a good way)
- Added: Apr 05, 2010
- Length: 18:15