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Dwayne Ratleff grew up Black, poor and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.” His a...
Bought by WMUU-LP, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., KALW, and WORT
- Added: Oct 04, 2022
- Length: 29:10
- Purchases: 4
Last week, I introduced you to Kate Schapira, a writer who’s been listening to people’s climate anxieties since 2014. She sets up a booth in public...
Bought by KMXT, KICI Iowa City, and WRFA-LP
- Added: Aug 17, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Here at Possibly, we try to make climate change feel more manageable and less overwhelming. But there’s no avoiding that this problem is terrifying...
- Added: Aug 13, 2022
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Pamela Sneed’s prose and poetry can reach out and grab you. She reads selections from her memoir, Funeral Diva, and shares some of her life story. ...
- Added: Aug 27, 2021
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
In our queer nod to Veterans Day, we bring you writer Lauren Hough, who grew up in the infamous Christian free-love cult The Family. At 18, she joi...
Bought by KWMR
- Added: Jun 08, 2021
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 1
By getting personal and a little surreal The New Silence by Brian Price uses humor, heightened language, and edgy jazz to take on the thorny questi...
- Added: Apr 19, 2020
- Length: 27:13
- Purchases: 2
A life out of the ordinary: Through memories, songs and poetry, David Baumgarten chronicles his early days in Southern California to his many trave...
- Added: May 08, 2016
- Length: 08:20
This southern noir tale is the intimate story of 18-year-old Jacob McNeely whose daddy controls the crystal meth business in a small town in rural ...
Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio and KCMJ Community Radio
- Added: Feb 20, 2016
- Length: 09:37
- Purchases: 2
When Allan Johnson asked his dying father where he wanted his ashes scattered, his father replied, it didn’t matter. So began the journey. A journe...
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
"There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say" - John Updike. The iconic author on how he discovered himself by...
- Added: Dec 18, 2013
- Length: 05:45
Our Killer meets her first victim
- Added: May 16, 2013
- Length: 09:20
A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.
- Added: Apr 24, 2013
- Length: 04:47
The world's only contract killer not to own a gun discovers she is in business.
- Added: Apr 14, 2013
- Length: 04:33
Dmae Roberts produced a special half-hour radio memorial on the 10th anniversary of her mom’s death. Remembrance: On Time And Distance is part memo...
Bought by KVSC, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KVSC, and WBEZ
- Added: Apr 30, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 5
This week we're delving into the world of American letters with Arnold Weinstein and Jimmy Breslin. Veteran journalist Jimmy Breslin might be the l...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Apr 29, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
New Yorker correspondent Peter Hessler reports from the road in China on the human side of miracle growth and epic migration. Then, we meet poet Ch...
Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Mar 10, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
A gift from the Julia Child Foundation. We hear Julia introducing her late friend, M.F.K. Fisher, who takes us out for a staggeringly gluttonous me...
- Added: Sep 21, 2010
- Length: 28:23
- Purchases: 4
Natalie Goldberg, the writer, painter and writing teacher, speaks with ThoughtCast in Santa Fe, NM!
Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio and WFIU
- Added: Sep 06, 2009
- Length: 29:30
- Purchases: 2
His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 02:26
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
This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...
- Added: Apr 02, 2008
- Length: 03:08
From: The Tibet Connection
Interview with a poet-activist who is inspiring a new generation of Tibetan youth
Bought by KFAI Minneapolis
- Added: Mar 14, 2008
- Length: 10:10
- Purchases: 1
Very personal conversation with author Diane ACKERMAN about The Zoo Keeper's Wife, now a major film.
- Added: Jan 16, 2008
- Length: 29:30
Feminist Icon and award-winning writer MARGE PIERCY in conversation about her life and work
- Added: Aug 17, 2007
- Length: 27:30
Marissa Sellers wrote this poem during her trip to Rwanda in 2006.
- Added: Jun 19, 2007
- Length: 01:04
