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The Write Question - Prageeta Sharma - 429
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Prageeta Sharma discusses her collection of poetry, Grief Sequence. She also reads poems.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: May 21, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Poet Staceyann Chin, poet, griot
From: Laura Flanders
Series: Laura Flanders & Friends
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Award-winning poet, performer, novelist, and activist Stacyann Chin about her long awaited anthology, Crossfire, and her relationship to a cannon d...

Bought by KDNK


  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Write Question - Sophia Shalmiyev - 443
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Sophia Shalmiyev discusses her lyric, immigrant memoir "Mother Winter." She also reads a short passage.

Bought by KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KWMR, Spokane Public Radio, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 12, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
The Write Question - Virginia Reeves - 430
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Virginia Reeves discusses her novel, The Behavior of Love. She also reads a short passage.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio, KWMR, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Aug 20, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Melissa Stephenson - 354
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Author Melissa Stephenson discusses her book, Driven: A White-knuckled Ride to Heartbreak and Back. She also reads two short passages.

Bought by KWMR, Yellowstone Public Radio, Spokane Public Radio, and KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash.


  • Added: May 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
"The Glass Castle" author Jeannette Walls
From: New Letters on the Air
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Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WFIU


  • Added: Aug 18, 2017
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Author Donna Salli: A Notion of Pelicans
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Area Voices
Caption: Katie Carter and Donna Salli
Donna Salli's first novel, A Notion of Pelicans, delves into the lives of five women as they each recall a memorable day in October many years ago.

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: Sep 23, 2016
  • Length: 08:59
  • Purchases: 1
Episode 10 - A Mango Shaped Space
From: Kitty Felde
Series: Book Club for Kids
Caption: The Mother Daughter Book Club at One More Page bookstore discusses "A Mango Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass
Do you see colors when you do math problems? The heroine of "A Mango Shaped Space" does. Kids from the Mother/Daughter Book Club at One More Page b...

  • Added: Feb 23, 2016
  • Length: 19:28
Wild Blessings (Half Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Half Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month: We celebrate the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, wo...

Bought by WJCT, WKCC, KVMR, KENW, WLIW and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 7
Southern Fiction Writer Stephanie Powell Watts
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Stephanie Powell Watts
2012 Ernest J. Gaines Award Winner Stephanie Powell Watts knows what it's like to be an African American Jehovah's Witness in the South. She talks ...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
A Conversation with Brenda Wineapple
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 1
Poet Linda Rodriguez
From: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Linda Rodriguez, Credit: Mike Ransdell
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the debut poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION from ...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Unknown
  • Length: :00
  • Purchases: 1
A Story About How I'm Not Going to Tell One by Annie Kahane
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2008
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Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:04