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MN Reads: "Climate Grief" by Shawna Weaver
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Shawna Weaver talks about her new book "Climate Grief"

  • Added: Oct 26, 2023
  • Length: 12:37
Navajo Poet Sherwin Bitsui
From: New Letters on the Air
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We continue Native American Heritage Month with Sherwin Bitsui, who reads from FLOOD SONG, his collection of poetry that won the American Book Awar...

Bought by KMUN, KBUT Crested Butte, Colo., and GCR (Global Community Radio)


  • Added: Nov 23, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Geffrey Davis - 441
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Award-winning poet Geffrey Davis discusses his collection, "Night Angler." He also reads several poems from the collection.

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


  • Added: Jul 30, 2020
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 3
'Renaissance Fables For The World' 1
From: Daniel Wargo
Series: Renaissance Fables For The World
Caption: 'A Man With A Quilted Sleeve', Credit: Titian
Spoken Word readings of some of the renaissance fables of Bartolomeo Scala. This program is exactly 5 minutes in length, and is part of a series th...

  • Added: May 13, 2020
  • Length: 05:00
Cave Canem Fellow Marcus Jackson
From: New Letters on the Air
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Our celebration of National Poetry Month continues with Marcus Jackson, a Cave Canem Fellow, who reads from his 2019 Ohioana Award-winning poetry b...

Bought by WNMU-FM and Raven Radio


  • Added: Apr 14, 2020
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jonathan Evison, author of "Lawn Boy"
From: Boise State Public Radio
Series: Reader's Corner with Bob Kustra
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Bob Kustra talks with Novelist Jonathan Evison about "Lawn Boy"

  • Added: Mar 15, 2019
  • Length: 30:11
The Write Question - Scott Parker - 360
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Scott Parker discusses his small book of essays, "A Way Home: Oregon Essays." He also reads a few short pieces.

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


  • Added: Dec 28, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
The Write Question - Anahata Meta - 313
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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This episode features a soulful conversation with Anahata Meta about her book, 52 Weeks, 52 Dates. She also reads a brief passage from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 15, 2018
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Jesse Donaldson discusses "The More They Disappear"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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Jesse Donaldson lives in Oregon.

  • Added: Aug 29, 2016
  • Length: 18:43
Interview with William Finnegan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: What We're Reading
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Hear our conversation with William Finnegan, author of Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life. William is the 2016 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biograp...

Bought by KVSC


  • Added: May 24, 2016
  • Length: 10:38
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Teresa Evangeline "Beside the Highway"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world, then through p...

  • Added: Dec 02, 2015
  • Length: :59
The Beat: Gwen Nell Westerman - "Genetic Code"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: Nov 25, 2015
  • Length: 01:28
The Beat: Kai' Leia McKenzie - "Untitled"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...

  • Added: Apr 24, 2015
  • Length: 01:20
The Beat: James Siems - "Untitled (For Dan Siems)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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James Siems is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. He likes crosscountry skiing and soccer. He recently wrote a poem ins...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "How Not To Fall In Love"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:55
The Beat: Sonja Kosler - "Sojourner's Place"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Sonja Kosler was born in Montana and lives now in Dent, Minnesota at the literal southwestern edge of KAXE,KBXE land. She's a member of the Lakes A...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 03:08
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan "Natures Goodness"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2014
  • Length: 01:41
Kansas Native Robert Day
From: New Letters on the Air
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Regularly published in NEW LETTERS magazine, as well as in other journals and newspapers nationwide, Robert Day discusses his two most recent works...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Feb 27, 2014
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
PPW 12: Lomax’s and Prison Poetry
From: Narrative Arts
Series: Prison Poetry Workshop Podcasts
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Alan Lomax traveled the south visiting prisons and recording songs and interviews. Lomax was a great collector of folk music of the 20th century an...

Bought by KUER, PRX Remix, and KFOK-LPFM


  • Added: Feb 10, 2014
  • Length: 09:21
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Beethoven Mad In The Steets"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
A Lesson Before Dying: A Big Read Documentary
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: The Big Read
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Ernest J. Gaines poses one of the most universal questions a novel can ask: Knowing we're going to die, how should we live? This program features G...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KQED


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
  • Purchases: 4
Rudolfo Anaya Discusses Oral Tradition in Light of His Novel, "Bless Me, Ultima"
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
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Author Rudolfo Anaya discusses the importance of oral tradition in light of his 1972 novel, "Bless Me, Ultima."

  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: :59