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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The town of Brunswick, Maine is set to remove 2/3 of the trees on Maine Street because it is too expensive to work around them as they install new ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 19, 2024
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:59
Caption: Forget-me-knots in bloom..., Credit: Susan Cook
From the Spring 2023 Maine Arts Journal. A poem on the intricacies of grieving.

  • Added: May 18, 2023
  • Length: :59
Caption: Maybe sometime in the night when the wind blows..., Credit: Susan Cook
Greta Thunberg, in her UN Climate Change speech called on threatened loss of the loved, in her view, the environment to bring action on climate c...

  • Added: Dec 14, 2019
  • Length: 05:17
Caption: Their "First Dance" was to the Country-Western song "Count on Me".
Those who sign on for white water rafting trips, fishing and hunting day trips are hoping to find a few hours or so of Great Abandon, an experience...

Bought by WOUB


  • Added: Sep 02, 2019
  • Length: 06:41
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: "...my way or the highway...", Credit: Susan Cook
A tribute (which could be sung to a tune from the Great American Wrongbook and a song "California, Here I Come" from the musical "Bombo") to the...

  • Added: Jul 15, 2018
  • Length: 02:39
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
From the Great American Wrongbook, in the Department of Poetic Justice, a musical tribute to the Maine Legislature's recent corporate welfare givin...

  • Added: Apr 10, 2018
  • Length: 02:56
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The UnCommonCore Podcast explores the ideas, experiences and perspectives that make us all different. Content includes everything from live to tape...

  • Added: Feb 03, 2018
  • Length: 38:02
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The World Health Organization, a United Nations affiliated committee almost succeeded in passing a resolution affirming breastfeeding as the best,...

  • Added: Feb 01, 2018
  • Length: 05:58
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From The Great American Wrongbook and In Today's Department of Poetic Justice, a poetic tribute to the question: what's wrong with violating the ci...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2018
  • Length: 04:43
Caption: ...how it has been..., Credit: Susan Cook
Horses at the Santa Ana Race track were set free in an effort to save them from the Southern California wildfires. Their freedom, like that of the ...

  • Added: Dec 11, 2017
  • Length: 05:35
Caption: Red Pines on the cemetary edge in a Ted Cruz-kind-of-Christian town, Credit: Susan Cook/ Google Earth
I’ve been asking for about 9 years now why Red Pines that have thrived for hundreds of years would die. Not that I knew 9 years ago they would die....

  • Added: Sep 02, 2017
  • Length: 03:45
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
The highest production of greenhouse gases in the US comes from the West Jefferson, Alabama Miller Electric Plant. The parent company- The Southern...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2017
  • Length: 02:55
Caption: ...even the polar bears can teach him..., Credit: Susan Cook
Recently, millions protested government inaction on climate change and global warming. Let us find words to help the current administration grasp...

  • Added: May 14, 2017
  • Length: 02:52
Caption: I'll Scratch Your Back Later..., Credit: Susan Cook
The Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks questions about right and wrong in sixty seconds about pressing matters of the day. Because the Maine legislatu...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2017
  • Length: 01:15
Caption: I'd have Sonny Boy Williamson testify and sing 'Bye Bye Bird', Credit: youtube.com/watch?v=YSdwhnsV4Go
Maine's Legislature will vote on Open-Pit Mining soon but whose testimony about environmental contamination will be believed and who will speak th...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2017
  • Length: 06:34
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A United States outdoor clothing store sells coats, labelled to assure us that the down is from US Ducks Independently Verified to Have been Neith...

  • Added: Feb 22, 2017
  • Length: 01:17
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The Standing Rock Sioux are protesting the construction of the 1200 mile Dakota Access oil pipeline because it threatens and places at enormous r...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2016
  • Length: 06:15
Caption: Contaminating Maine for Corporate Favors, Credit: Susan Cook
Well, in my state the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting published a lengthy article about a veteran lawmaker who is strongly supporting a ...

  • Added: May 20, 2015
  • Length: 03:23
Caption: A migratory bird without a home..., Credit: Susan Cook
Legislative ethics exist to put the brakes on political gamesmanship- whether it’s trading votes to pass a bill, get a fat salaried new Federal job...

  • Added: Aug 20, 2014
  • Length: 10:07
Caption: Gravel pits fall under Maine mining regulations
Winning is the short view of Political gamesmanship.Fake news creation is part and parcel of it. Environmental contamination is the long view when ...

  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 07:50
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21 college bound students created these 11 radio pieces covering a range of enviornmental issues as The Heinz Endowments Summer Internship program ...

  • Added: Dec 08, 2009
  • Length: 38:37
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Divorce and tornadoes

  • Added: May 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:38