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Sonnet for the Higgs Boson. The God particle.
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 1
The Distance of Time: An American Sonnet about Relativity
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
Meet Huascar Medina--the Poet Laureate of Kansas
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Huascar Medina, Credit: Courtesy of the artist
We're celebrating poetry in this week's podcast. The first Latino and non-academic Poet Laureate of Kansas (and National Council on the Arts member...

Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Jan 02, 2024
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
Novelist Bushra Rehman: A Rose Grows in Corona,Queens
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Bushra Rehman, Credit: Andrea Dobrich
Novelist and poet Bushra Rehman celebrates the Pakistani-American community of 1980’s Corona, Queens and the coming of age of a queer Muslim girl a...

Bought by WSLR, RADIOLEX, RadioStPete Florida, KECG, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif. and more


  • Added: Mar 14, 2023
  • Length: 28:58
  • Purchases: 8
Delaware State of the Arts - Don Foster, Novelist
From: Andrew Truscott
Series: Delaware State of the Arts Podcast
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Andy Truscott speaks with Don Foster, a 2019 Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellow in the field of fiction literature.

  • Added: Oct 20, 2022
  • Length: 21:57
Delaware State of the Arts - Gregory Hammond
From: Andrew Truscott
Series: Delaware State of the Arts Podcast
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Andy Truscott speaks with Greg Hammond, an author from Wilmington, Delaware – and one of the Delaware Division of the Arts’ 2022 Emerging Individua...

  • Added: Oct 12, 2022
  • Length: 22:13
Revisiting A Conversation with Author Victor Lodato
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Victor Lodato
Victor Lodato talks about creating a New Jersey gothic with "Edgar and Lucy."

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, Spokane Public Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Aug 02, 2022
  • Length: 29:02
  • Purchases: 4
Saluting Zora Neale Hurston and her biographer the late Valerie Boyd
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Valerie Boyd, Credit: Courtesy: Valerie Boyd
We’re marking Women’s history month by replaying my in-depth interview with the late Valerie Boyd who wrote the acclaimed “Wrapped in Rainbows: the...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KZUM, RadioFreePalmer, KWMR, Spokane Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 08, 2022
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 6
The National Endowment for the Arts presents Art Works
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Speak the Speech, Credit: Kate Saylor
Artistic Director of Alabama Shakespeare Festival Rick Dildine brings theater outdoors and has the audience "Speak the Speech."

Bought by Harford Community Radio


  • Added: Feb 08, 2021
  • Length: 26:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Poet Laureate of the United States Joy Harjo
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
Author R.O. Kwon's novel The Incendiaries has everyone talking and for good reason
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
Madeline Miller talks about her novel Circe
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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
Monsters in the Classroom! (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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"Hogzilla Chuck Norris Duck Ape" is the creation of a special ed class in St. Louis and winner of the Global Monster Project. And, Gothic Literatur...

Bought by WCNY, C89.5 - KNHC Seattle, WLPR , WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan and more


  • Added: Oct 11, 2019
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 7
To Search the Night: A Jazz Novel by Anthony Swann
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Katie Carter & Anthony Swann
Anthony Swann is a well-known poet around the Bemidji area. His poetry collection Paint with Words was released in 2016 and now he’s just release...

  • Added: Jun 24, 2019
  • Length: 37:38
Poetry Contest Winner - Tracey Howg
From: Bois Forte Tribal Community Radio
Series: Contest Winners
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Tracey reads her first place poem for the Fall Poetry Contest in 2017 and 2nd place poem for the Winter Poetry contest in 2017/18.

  • Added: Dec 18, 2018
  • Length: 04:49
Actor Jeffrey Wright and his work with veterans.
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: We Are Not Done Yet, Credit: HBO
A talk with Jeffrey Wright about his documentary that looks at veterans writing and performing collective poems.

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: Dec 11, 2018
  • Length: 30:10
  • Purchases: 1
Drawing History (hour)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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Around the country, historians and community organizations are commemorating the 400th anniversary of 1619. That’s the first year that African Amer...

Bought by WCNY, WJAB, WMUU-LP, WCMU Michigan, WRGY and more


  • Added: Dec 07, 2018
  • Length: 53:58
  • Purchases: 8
R2AC Artist Fellow: Carol Ann Russell
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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Carol Ann Russell recently received an Artist Fellowship from the Region 2 Arts Council

  • Added: Nov 28, 2018
  • Length: 19:59
Puposky Playwright's Original Work NYC Bound
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
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All it takes is a spark. Several years ago, Cate Belleveau agreed to portray Mary Welsh Hemingway in a Beltrami County Historical Society fundrais...

  • Added: Aug 06, 2018
  • Length: 13:34
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates storytelling with Kiran Singh Sirah
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Kiran Singh Sirah
A conversation with Kiran Singh Sirah--head of the International Storytelling Center which builds community one story at a time.

Bought by KZUM and KVNF


  • Added: Jun 08, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts celebrates novelist Jennifer Haigh
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Jennifer Haigh's novel Heat and Light takes a hard look at fracking in an Appalchian town

  • Added: May 03, 2018
  • Length: 28:18
Family History Discovered: Wendell Affield and his new series The Chickenhouse Chronicles
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Wendell Affield & Katie Carter
Wendell Affield was forbidden to go into the chickenhouse. Once his mother passed away, he was able to enter. What he discovered was a treasure t...

  • Added: Apr 30, 2018
  • Length: 54:06
Poet Melissa Range speaks with the National Endowment for the Arts
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Melissa Range's poetry collection Scriptorium illuminates her Appalachian Roots

Bought by WNJR and WUTC


  • Added: Apr 13, 2018
  • Length: 29:29
  • Purchases: 2
The National Endowment for the Arts in conversation with author Emily St. John Mandel
From: National Endowment for the Arts
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Emily St John Mandel's post-apocalyptic novel Station Eleven looks at what endures when civilization ends.

  • Added: Mar 23, 2018
  • Length: 29:28
Poet Erin Marsh
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Poet Erin Marsh
Erin Marsh will read from her upcoming book at the First City Poetry Reads event tonight in Bemidji. She stopped by the studio to talk about poetr...

  • Added: Dec 13, 2017
  • Length: 10:25