PRX - Pieces for Tone: Engaging
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Can we come to know things poetically that we couldn't get at through other forms of thinking, writing, or talking?
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), KICI Iowa City, KSKQ, KICI Iowa City, KMUN and more
- Added: Mar 03, 2015
- Length: 54:00
- Purchases: 13
Alyssa Joy is a student at Bemidji State University who is from North Minneapolis. Her poetry is an exploration of the painful struggle of human ex...
- Added: Nov 28, 2014
- Length: 02:02
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...
- Added: Oct 02, 2014
- Length: 03:06
Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...
- Added: Sep 18, 2014
- Length: 02:04
Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 01:48
Alyssa Joy is a student at Bemidji State University who is from North Minneapolis. Her poetry is an exploration of the painful struggle of human ex...
- Added: Jun 26, 2014
- Length: 02:30
Even casual conversations have surprisingly musical qualities. Linguist Brett Hyde delves into the rhythms behind language and the principles that ...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 12:30
- Purchases: 1
Professor Lynne Tatlock shares her insights into the art of translation and reveals the many lives of Jane Eyre in Germany.
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 11:40
We’re reading and gabbing about a story called “The Teacher of Literature,” published in 1894; Chekhov was 34 years old. It’s a story about a young...
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 01:21:57
Sit in any prison classroom or recreation room in any prison in the country and ask yourself: How many writers are in the room. How many people ar...
- Added: Apr 10, 2014
- Length: 54:35
- Purchases: 2
We're revisiting the birthplace of the American mind. Five houses on three streets within a period of five years in Concord, Massachusetts launche...
- Added: Mar 28, 2014
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 3
We’re reading a famous story called “The Student.” It’s a late winter, early spring night in the 1890s, Easter weekend. A student is coming home f...
Bought by KICI Iowa City and KWMR
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 20:08
- Purchases: 2
Chekhov wrote “Gusev” on shipboard, returning from his stark study mission to the prison island of Sakhalin in 1890. He was 30 years old, ten years...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 52:19
Missouri’s first Poet Laureate, Walter Bargen, sits down with Quiddity‘s Assistant Editor, John McCarthy, to discuss the importance of silence in p...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Mar 04, 2014
- Length: 15:32
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Feb 21, 2014
- Length: 01:30
When we are disparaged, ridiculed, attacked our natural response is a flight to safety to family, to friends, to tribe. But what if there's nowhere...
- Added: Feb 20, 2014
- Length: 53:57
Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 03:48
One of the most important writers of the Black Arts Movement, Sonia Sanchez recently completed her term as Philadelphia's first Poet Laureate. This...
- Added: Feb 14, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
We asked poet Kyes Steven of Auburn University's Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project to record a workshop for us. Take a listen.
Prison Poetr...
Bought by Troy Public Radio and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Feb 10, 2014
- Length: 05:30
- Purchases: 2
John Krokidas talks taking small liberties, exploding into the new, and the tender side of David Cross.
- Added: Oct 31, 2013
- Length: 16:44
From: Teosson Wells
Rediscover The Catcher in the Rye and see if, somewhere swimming just below the surface, your inner Holden Caulfield is still alive and kicking. If...
- Added: Oct 18, 2013
- Length: 06:04
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC
- Added: Aug 05, 2013
- Length: 18:40
- Purchases: 3
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
In this episode, we look at one of the most pressing environmental issues;
fracking. There are so many ways to think about an issue like this; with...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 29:20
- Purchases: 1
Mitch Skinner finds out how to survive while selling traditional books.
- Added: Mar 05, 2013
- Length: 05:12
