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Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis
From: Samuel Robinson
Caption: Spiral design on the street
'Hidden in Plain Sight: The San Francisco Poet's Street-Corner Oasis’ (2017) documents the underground (yet overground) poetry happening ’The Corne...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2023
  • Length: 09:06
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 6
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates love the water. It’s their sustenance, it’s their highway, it’s their haven. Lester Blackiston loved the water. As a matter of fact, I didn...

  • Added: Aug 25, 2016
  • Length: 27:08
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 5
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Blackbeard the pirate may have had as many as 14 wives, the last one being a 16 year old girl who he gave to his crew after he deflowered her. It w...

  • Added: Aug 18, 2016
  • Length: 25:45
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 4
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Pirates and their deeds become legend. Blackbeard, Lester’s personal favorite, did this thing with canon fuses, or so the legend goes. Just as his...

  • Added: Aug 11, 2016
  • Length: 26:15
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 3
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
Lester Blackiston was a pirate . . .

  • Added: Aug 03, 2016
  • Length: 24:46
Lester Blackiston: The Pirate of Shockoe Bottom, Part 1
From: Charles McGuigan
Series: A Grain of Sand
Caption: Lester Blackiston
This is the story of a dead man. He gave up the ghost a few years ago. And some who knew him might say he never had a ghost to give up in the first...

  • Added: Jul 22, 2016
  • Length: 26:09
Other People's Stories
From: Tobin Low
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When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
Capes and Corsets
From: Salt Institute for Documentary Studies
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Chicks who dig comics, fighting the epic battle against sexism

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WRVO Public Media, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 16, 2012
  • Length: 06:17
  • Purchases: 4
How To Destroy A Book
From: Peter Crimmins
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A San Francisco library book vandal evokes artistic reaction.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMPG, WBEZ, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 29, 2005
  • Length: 05:33
  • Purchases: 4
Poetry on Death Row - voices from inside
From: Arndt Peltner
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The voices from Death Row Inmates

Bought by XRAY.fm, Marfa Public Radio, and KALW


  • Added: Jun 10, 2005
  • Length: 27:50
  • Purchases: 3
A Tribute to Spalding Gray
From: Jon Kalish
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Interviews with Gray and those who knew him, as well as excerpts from one of his performances.

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), KFAI Minneapolis, WHQR, and WUFT


  • Added: Dec 16, 2004
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 4
Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship Documentary
From: M. Travis DiNicola
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A documentary about Indianapolis' Creative Renewal Arts Fellowships which has granted 150 "artistic sabbaticals" since 1999.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2004
  • Length: 29:55