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What's What: What is Poetry?
From: Paul McCarthy
Series: What's What Radio
Caption: Ashley Bryan, Credit: Rama Hughes
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 44:14
The Interfaith Alternative
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: New Society Publishers jacket, Credit: cover design by Diane McIntosh
Whatever your spiritual path, chances are that the primary tenets of your faith include universal love, acceptance and compassion. Yet three thousa...

  • Added: Jun 26, 2012
  • Length: 28:55
WorldCanvass: Iowa and Invisible Man
From: Joan Kjaer
Series: WorldCanvass
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:57:35
American Book Award-winning Navajo poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
American Book Award-winner Luis Alberto Urrea
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Known for his book THE DEVIL'S HIGHWAY, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for nonfiction, and his American Book Award-winning memoir, NOBODY'S SON, Luis Al...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 10, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Barry Lopez talks about storytellers and readers
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Barry Lopez talks about the roles and responsibilities of storytellers, and offers some advice to readers.

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 24, 2012
  • Length: 30:02
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland - 276
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland talk about the process of compiling essays and poetry from more than 60 authors from "the west...

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, KSJD, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jan 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 7
Michael Czarnecki, poet and publisher
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Michael Czarnecki talks about his transition from working at a job to making his living as a poet and publisher. He also reads...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and fiction writer, Sapphire
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Sapphire
Poet and fiction writer Sapphire, best-known for her novel PUSH, which became the award-winning film PRECIOUS, reads from her 2011 novel, THE KID, ...

Bought by WCSU-FM


  • Added: Nov 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
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FINDING JOE -- Filmmaker Pat Solomon on bliss, fear, and why Joseph Campbell will always be relevant.

  • Added: Oct 14, 2011
  • Length: 13:51
Neil Gaiman: A Reading and Interview
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
David Lipsky and Rick Moody on David Foster Wallace
From: KCRW
Series: KCRW's Bookworm
Caption: Michael Silverblatt, Credit: Marc Goldstein
When David Foster Wallace died, he left behind drafts of a novel called The Pale King.

  • Added: Apr 13, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Michelle Latiolais
From: Mario Diaz
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Michell Latiolis reveals how the death of her husband impacted the stories in her new collection Widow.

  • Added: Apr 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Jenny Shank, author 'The Ringer'
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program Jenny Shank talks about her new (and first) book, THE RINGER, a novel about baseball, racial tension, and two families trying t...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 1
Author Elizabeth Gilbert on being "Committed."
From: New Hampshire Public Radio
Series: Writers on a New England Stage
Caption: Author Elizabeth Gilbert
"Eat, Pray, Love" author Elizabeth Gilbert reads from her latest memoir, "Committed." In an interview with Virginia Prescott, she reveals what it i...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 14, 2011
  • Length: 53:24
  • Purchases: 1
Aldo Leopold and the Emerging Land Ethic (59:00 / 54:00 - Free Program)
From: Jack Loeffler
Caption: Aldo Leopold, Credit: Aldo Leopold Foundation
A celebration of the life Aldo Leopold, the man who wrote “A Sand County Almanac” in 1949, and introduced Ethics as the fundamental concept that sh...

Bought by KZYX, WRGY, KUPR low power FM, WMUU-LP, KCMJ Community Radio and more


  • Added: Feb 07, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 15
Janet Fox's novel FAITHFUL
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Janet Fox talks about and reads from FAITHFUL, her debut novel for teens and young adult readers. She also talks about the con...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 27, 2010
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Mary Zeiss Stange, author of Hard Grass: Life on the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Out in southeast Montana, near the small town of Ekalaka, is where Mary Zeiss Stange and her husband, Doug, own and run the Crazy Woman Bison Ranch...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 23, 2010
  • Length: 29:04
  • Purchases: 1
New England Poetry Hour - Helen Vendler & Keith Waldrop
From: Open Source
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
Gail Carriger on the Parasol Protectorate Series
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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Maddi Frick's conversation with Gail Carriger.

  • Added: Aug 12, 2010
  • Length: 19:19
The Poet and His Dyslexia
From: Francesca Rheannon
Series: Writer's Voice
Caption: Poet Philip Schultz
Host Francesca Rheannon spends the hour with poet Philip Schultz talking about his poetry, his method of teaching writing — and his dyslexia. His l...

Bought by WXXI Rochester


  • Added: Aug 11, 2010
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 1
Joe Plut on "Conversations with Jon Hassler"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Realgoodwords
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RealGoodWords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:44
Marianne Wiggins
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Marianne Wiggins talks about her novel, THE SHADOW CATCHER, which combines fiction with biography (albeit a semi-fictional Mar...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 20, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about his film.
From: Andrea Chase
Series: Behind the Scenes
Caption: PRX default Piece image
THE LAST STATION -- Writer/director Michael Hoffman talks with Andrea Chase about using Chekhov to get to Tolstoy, why love is as wondrous and infu...

  • Added: Jan 07, 2010
  • Length: 16:04
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
Caption: Ghanian Students Writing To Their Peace Pals in the U.S., Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

Bought by KUOW, KUOW, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, KXOT Public Radio, KVNF and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 6