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Caption: 'Duck In Watercolor', Credit: Pisanello
This program is a 5 minute spoken word tribute to a man who was prolific in writing renaissance fables...Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Coat Of Arms Held By A Woman And A Greyhound', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This 5 minute program highlights through the spoken word renaissance fables that were written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St. John The Baptist', Credit: Leonardo da Vinci
This program is 5 minutes in length, and is part of the 76 episode series on PRX that explores renaissance fables.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Venus And Mars', Credit: Botticelli
This program is a spoken word rendition of renaissance fables with appropriate music. It is 5 minutes in length.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'St, Maurus Of Glanfeuil Walking On Water Saves St, Placidius From Drowning', Credit: Jean Fouquet
This program is 5 minutes in length, and explores some of the timeless renaissance fables of Bernadino Baldi...one of the four authors explored in ...

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of Clarissa Strozzi', Credit: Titian
This 5 minute spoken word program highlights some of the renaissance fables of the prolific Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 16, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man', Credit: Luca Signorelli
The apologues or fables of Leon Battista Alberti are numerous and entertaining. This program, for 5 minutes, explores one of the greatest authors o...

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Portrait Of A Man With A Medal Of Cosmo The Elder', Credit: Botticelli
This 5 minute program is a spoken word presentation of renaissance fables written by Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'Allegory On Gluttony And Lust', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This 5 minute program utilizes the spoken word embedded in renaissance music to explore more of the fables of Bartolomeo Scala.

  • Added: May 15, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Hermit Saints', Credit: Hieronymus Bosch
This series presents 76 separate programs of 5 minutes in length. Four great authors of fables from the renaissance are explored here through spoke...

  • Added: May 14, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: 'The Outcast', Credit: Botticelli
This program explores the fables of a great renaissance author, Bartolomeo Scala. It is a spoken word tribute of 5 minutes in length, and part of t...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Caption: Joy Harjo, Credit: Karen Kuehn
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo talks about poetry and music

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: May 12, 2020
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
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This is a good time to reflect on the role of poetry in the face of tragedy. A poet laureate shares how poetry can heal in the wake of loss.

Bought by WKMS, WCNY, 'The Sea', WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 14
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This is a good time to reflect on the role of poetry in the face of tragedy. A poet laureate shares how poetry can heal in the wake of loss.

Bought by WJCT, Kansas Public Radio, WLIW, KRDP, WYAP and more


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 11
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This is a good time to reflect on the role of poetry in the face of tragedy. A poet laureate shares how poetry can heal in the wake of loss.

Bought by WKMS, WNED Buffalo, KXCV, and WNMU-FM


  • Added: Mar 26, 2020
  • Length: :29
  • Purchases: 4
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Public art meets poetry in the month-long festival known as O, Miami. We sit down with visual artists Najja Moon and Michelle Lisa Polissaint and O...

  • Added: Dec 19, 2019
  • Length: 51:46
Caption: R.O. Kwon, Credit:  Smeeta Mahanti
Author R.O. Kwon's book The Incendiaries has been named a best book of the year by over forty publications. Not bad for a first book! But it's als...

Bought by KZUM and Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:53
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Madeline Miller, Credit: Nina Subin
The ever-compelling Greek myths fuel Madeline Miller's imagination. Circe is the second novel she sets among the god and goddesses and she puts the...

Bought by WKMS, Harford Community Radio, WMPG, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 13, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Graphic novelist Jonathan Fetter-Vorm takes us into the world of his book, "Moonbound: Apollo 11 and the Dream of Spaceflight."

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 04, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2019
  • Length: 29:34
  • Purchases: 1
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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 26:51
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While Spanish painter and printmaker Francisco de Goya and Russian writer Leo Tolstoy were separated by time and space, the two created incomparabl...

  • Added: Oct 10, 2019
  • Length: 31:19
Caption: Photo by Star Black released into the Public Domain
We continue our series on State Poets Laureate with the most recent California State Poet Laureate, Dana Gioia. In this archive interview, the Cali...

  • Added: Aug 28, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
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On this episode of Art Beat we enter a fantasy realm of magic, swords and dragons with Minnesota author James Petrillo. Petrillo’s most recent nove...

  • Added: Jul 30, 2019
  • Length: 44:44
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Poet Barry Brent shares his poem "Woman with a Mango" on this segment of Wordish.

  • Added: Jan 14, 2019
  • Length: 02:20