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Are you drowning? The start of the school year can be stressful for parents, teachers and students. And this year hasn’t been smooth sailing for ma...

Bought by KDNK, RadioFreePalmer, KMUN, KWMR, and WNYE


  • Added: Dec 21, 2022
  • Length: 28:00
  • Purchases: 5
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Western Films as America’s origin story, and why they sound the way they do. Featuring Gary Farmer, Rion Amilcar Scott, Jeff Grace and Kathryn Kali...

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 50:00
Caption: Kim Hines, Credit: Photo Courtesy of Kim Hines
Kim Hines’ Young Adult Novella Wingo Fly (2020) revolves around Christy Wingo, a 10 year old Black girl in 1965 Minneapolis, Minnesota. The book is...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 21, 2020
  • Length: 05:31
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet Lehua Taitano discusses her collection "Inside Me An Island." She also reads from the book.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Nov 19, 2019
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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Writer, musician, and artist Kelly Schirmann shares from her collection of poetry and prose pieces, "Popular Music." She also reads new work.

Bought by Spokane Public Radio and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Sep 19, 2019
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 2
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Meryl Streep narrates an hour-long documentary special about how the Women’s Movement changed poetry, and how women poets changed the culture.

Bought by Oregon Public Broadcasting, WGTE Public Media, WNMU-FM, KBIA, High Plains Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 16, 2018
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 73
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Interview with Jonathan Lethem on his new book "More Alive and Less Lonely" and listener-reader reviews

  • Added: Apr 25, 2017
  • Length: 10:46
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NPR's Fresh Air book critic Maureen Corrigan discusses her book about the enduring appeal of "The Great Gatsby"

  • Added: Jun 07, 2016
  • Length: 30:50
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WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Tammy Bobrowsky and listener-readers review the following books: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Letters to Isabella, Home, and The Art of Languag...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews books with recent or upcoming movie adaptations, including listener-reader reviews: A Walk in the Woods, Room, The Devil in...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
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Forced to ‘rest’ for months in an old Victorian estate, a woman begins to realize something strange about the horrendous wallpaper in the nursery.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2015
  • Length: 38:06
Caption: Forrest Carter
Asa Carter was a speechwriter for Alabama Governor George Wallace. He penned one of the most infamous speeches of the era… Wallace’s “Segregation N...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: May 14, 2014
  • Length: 15:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Featuring some totally pretty literature by Mike Young, Montreux Rotholtz, Ted Berrigan, Jeff Hipsher, Josephine Rowe, Eric Baus, and Elizabeth Bis...

  • Added: Mar 24, 2014
  • Length: 21:37
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
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Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day. Minnesota's current Poet Laureate recites her poem ...

  • Added: Aug 09, 2012
  • Length: 01:41
Caption: Poetry Out Loud Participants, Credit: Patty Polasky
A documentary piece featuring citation and commentary from high school students from Fosston, Clearbrook-Gonvick, and Trek North High Schools durin...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2012
  • Length: 11:09