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Patricia Smith, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts fellow and the 2018 winner of the coveted Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, is now the 2021 Ruth...
Bought by WDCB
- Added: Feb 28, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
During the final hours of the Trump presidency, on January 15 of this year, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management approved the Final Environmental Imp...
- Added: Apr 13, 2021
- Length: 13:14
Stewart O'Nan has written over 20 books as varied as the best-selling novel, SNOW ANGELS (now a film) to the non-fiction book co-written with Steph...
- Added: Nov 25, 2019
- Length: 29:00
We travel to the Virginia tidewater region with poet Dave Smith, who grew up along that coast. Though he has lived and taught elsewhere, his many b...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 08, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Three powerful interviews about the ongoing catastrophe in Palestine and Gaza on the eve of the Nakba.
- Added: May 12, 2018
- Length: 56:01
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
Some of the prominent popular musicians who passed away in 2017 are celebrated in a one-hour special hosted by public radio music historian Paul In...
Bought by WAER Syracuse, NY, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WVAS, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, KDUR and more
- Added: Dec 14, 2017
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 18
A one-hour program focusing on the work of female jazz guitarist Emily Remler. Great for Women's History Month!
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 59:02
- Purchases: 15
Mwende Katwiwa performs a poem about a police killing in New Orleans that occurred on Lundi Gras.
- Added: Oct 04, 2016
- Length: 02:24
The residents of Mossville, Louisiana have long prized self-sufficiency. Founded by freed slaves in the 1700s, Mossville was a place where everyone...
Bought by KVLU
- Added: May 19, 2016
- Length: 31:37
- Purchases: 1
We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
As a boy I always thought it would be terrifying to be a tree rooted in the ground when developers arrived with backhoes and chainsaws. How you cou...
- Added: Apr 08, 2016
- Length: 27:22
- Added: Dec 29, 2015
- Length: 08:28
Seventeen year-old Shamarra Rombawa lives in Wilmington, Delaware. Her city was dubbed "Murder Town" by a 2014 article in Newsweek because of its h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 16, 2015
- Length: 03:08
- Purchases: 1
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 26:34
Charmed lives lack for something. If you’re born in a state of nirvana or somehow privileged as a member of the elect, what’s the point? It’s only ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2015
- Length: 26:07
Jeanne Lutz grew up on a dairy farm in southern Minnesota and lives in St Paul now. She loves to write poetry because its something she can do anyw...
- Added: Jul 30, 2015
- Length: 01:12
Lady E lost just about everything that gave her life meaning and then she found something else inside her. Her voice.And now Lady E sings the blues...
- Added: Apr 02, 2015
- Length: 27:23
As I considered making a show to serve as a kind of year in review, I first thought to choose my favorite program from each month of the year, 12 s...
- Added: Dec 30, 2014
- Length: 57:06
In February 1996, David Foster Wallace came to Boston. He was the not-quite recognized writer of the massive book, Infinite Jest, which was just be...
Bought by XRAY.fm, KFOK-LPFM, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.
- Added: Jun 25, 2014
- Length: 36:36
- Purchases: 3
Youth Media Project intern Tara Trudell, a student at New Mexico Highlands University, interviews South African folk artists Lulama Sihlabeni, in a...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 08:22
An N’MPower participant, who wishes to remain anonymous, interviews Spanish Colonial artist Diana Moya Lujan, in a community engagement project bet...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 05:57
N’MPower participant, Marquell Hicks, interviews quilt artists Sharon Wirtz and Jane Gabaldon, in a community engagement project between the Museum...
- Added: Apr 09, 2014
- Length: 10:00
Daniel, a student at Harrison High School in Minneapolis writes about his regret when a gift to him broke.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 13, 2014
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
This journey begins in the deepest recesses of the human brain--the hippocampus, and ends in the memory support unit of a retirement community. It'...
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 27:22