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On the bluffs of the Village of Mendocino, overlooking the Pacific Ocean about 155 miles north of San Francisco, California, the sounds of the Mend...
- Added: Sep 13, 2024
- Length: 29:00
Despite being one of the most frequently banned authors, Toni Morrison’s work has inspired countless others to tell stories outside the mainstream....
- Added: Nov 30, 2023
- Length: 23:18
U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo (2019-2021) talks about her Native American heritage and reads poetry from her multi-award-winning book IN MAD LOVE AN...
Bought by KBIA, GCR (Global Community Radio), WNMU-FM, and KWMR
- Added: Apr 01, 2022
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
This Classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR features a look back at the importance of poetry after 9/11 with readings by Arab-American Naomi Shihab Nye, no...
Bought by WGCU, WDCB, and GCR (Global Community Radio)
- Added: Sep 17, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
- Added: Mar 21, 2021
- Length: 55:12
For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...
Bought by GCR (Global Community Radio), WDCB, and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Native American poet Deborah Miranda, author of the 2020 collection ALTER OF BROKEN THINGS, reads from her multi-genre book, BAD INDIANS: A TRIBAL...
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WNJR
- Added: Jan 07, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Poetry and music which explores the gifts of the solitary life.
Bought by Royalton Community Radio
- Added: Jun 20, 2020
- Length: 02:00:58
- Purchases: 1
This 5 minute spoken word program explores some of the living fables of Leonardo da Vinci.
- Added: May 15, 2020
- Length: 05:00
This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....
- Added: Mar 17, 2020
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
An alternative take on Valentine's Day.
- Added: Feb 09, 2019
- Length: 54:03
Inspired by the documentary THE VIETNAM WAR, we return to an archive interview with the poet John Balaban, who served as a conscientious objector i...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 04, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poetry and music about the powers of rain.
- Added: May 28, 2016
- Length: 49:11
In this Popcast, hear about the surprising podcast-like feel of a 1972 radio documentary about Sylvia Plath.
- Added: Sep 15, 2015
- Length: 04:38
John Lomax and his son Alan toured the South in the 1930s gathering music for the Library of Congress. Life then, and now, can be pretty tough in ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WWNO, Troy Public Radio, and KFOK-LPFM
- Added: Jan 28, 2014
- Length: 54:18
- Purchases: 4
This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The contributions of the Black Man—celebrating Black History Month. Recounted in this installment is the life, times, and legacy of Phillis Wheatle...
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 47:29
Actor from Terminator: Sara Conner Chronicles discusses the series and his film work in No Country For Old Men and The Assassination Of Jesse James...
- Added: Jan 26, 2009
- Length: 42:20
Chance encounters of love with singer Nora York, renown chef Vertamae Grosvenor and a reading of Raymond Carver's "What We Talk About When We Talk ...
- Added: Apr 03, 2007
- Length: 58:34
- Purchases: 4