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Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis
From: KUHF
Series: Texas Originals
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Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis was one of the most important Texas writers of the 19th century.

Bought by KTTZ and KAMU


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 2
MN Reads: Catherine Holm, "Voice Lessons: Tales of Breaking Free"
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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On this segment of Minnesota Reads, we talk with Catherine Holm, author of Voice Lessons: Tales of Breaking Free published in 2014 by North Star Pr...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 05:36
  • Purchases: 1
Shelf Discovery: Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic by Stefanie Wilder-Taylor
From: Kristin Dreyer Kramer
Series: Shelf Discovery
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On this week's Shelf Discovery, Kristin commiserates with another tired mama in Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Gummi Bears Should Not Be Organic.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Harford Community Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: Jun 02, 2015
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 3
How the Iron Man Learned to Swim
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Felicia Schneiderhan reading the epilogue to her memoir Newlyweds Afloat: Married Bliss and Mechanical Breakd...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 07:18
"I don’t cry because I can’t afford the loss of control."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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Women's Words on April 26, 2015 featured Dianna Hunter of Duluth reading from her story, "The Dead Cow and the Great Man" which received an award f...

Bought by KZYX


  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 08:14
  • Purchases: 1
"Breathe deep. It goes so fast."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Kirsten Dierking reading two poems, "Lilacs" and "Nuthatch" from her poetry collection, Tether, released by S...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 02:22
Just Be in Nature
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Stephanie Pearson of Duluth reading an excerpt of her article "Sweden by the Sea," published recently in Nati...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 06:17
Unwinding over the Radio
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Kirsten Dierking reading two poems, "Wilderness" and "Kayak" from her poetry collection, Tether, released by ...

  • Added: Jun 01, 2015
  • Length: 03:14
Under Magnolia (Feature)
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Best known for her books about the joys of life in Italy, Frances Mayes has published a new memoir. But this time, she takes her readers back to he...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and KKRN


  • Added: May 29, 2015
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 3
"She loves to remind me that I am her weird grandchild."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Amy Waugh of Duluth reading "Somewhere in Colorado," an excerpt from her book, Remnants of the Disappeared from Red Orc...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 06:33
Tending Mary Jane
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Jocelyn Pihlaja reading her short story, "Tending Mary Jane," in which the nanny is asked to help t...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 05:42
Why Not Minot?
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
Caption: Dianna Hunter
This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Dianna Hunter reading her short story, "Why Not Minot?"

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 07:41
Novel Explores the Meaning of Home
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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Megan Kruse talks about and reads from her debut novel, Call Me Home

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


  • Added: Apr 27, 2015
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 3
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
Wild Blessings (Hour Version)
From: With Good Reason
Series: With Good Reason: Weekly Hour Long Episodes
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This Poetry Month, we honor the late African American poet Lucille Clifton, who was widely acclaimed for her powerful explorations of race, womanho...

Bought by WCNY, KOWS, WTJU, KUNV, KKRN and more


  • Added: Apr 14, 2015
  • Length: 53:56
  • Purchases: 6
Dianna Hunter: "From within...I love my growing strength."
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words from KUMD features Duluthian Dianna Hunter reading her short story, "Horses and Other Embodied Spirits."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 06, 2015
  • Length: 07:20
  • Purchases: 1
Enchantment Lake: Margi Preus - "It Begins in Manhattan"
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Margi Preus of Duluth reading an excerpt (the first of two) from her book, "Enchantment Lake."

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Carolyn Kizer: Past American Voice
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...

Bought by WNJR


  • Added: Mar 25, 2015
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
"All the Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things" by Michelle Hensley
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Michelle Hensley is the author of "All The Lights On: Reimagining Theater with Ten Thousand Things." It's a book about a theater company that wante...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 12:07
  • Purchases: 1
"Enchantment Lake: A Northwood's Mystery" by Margie Preus
From: WDSE
Series: MN Reads
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Author Margi Preus takes us to the lake for a whodunit. Published by University of Minnesota Press.

  • Added: Mar 22, 2015
  • Length: 08:20
The Mysterious James Tiptree
From: Eric Molinsky
Series: Imaginary Worlds
Caption: Alice Sheldon, Credit: Eric Molinsky
Alice Sheldon served in the OSS and the CIA. And then she went deep undercover posing as a male science fiction writer. It wasn't an assignment, it...

Bought by WABE and PRX Remix


  • Added: Mar 12, 2015
  • Length: 23:44
  • Purchases: 2
Color So Sparing: Terri Falsani
From: WDSE
Series: Women's Words
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This Women's Words features Terri Falsani of Duluth reading her two poems "Understanding Eve" and "Higher Latitude".

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Tayari Jones: Writing the Story
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
Caption: Tayari Jones, Credit: Courtesy of Algonquin Press
Novelist Tayari Jones is one writer who loves writng.

Bought by WABE and WNJR


  • Added: Mar 06, 2015
  • Length: 28:30
  • Purchases: 2
Joyce Carol Oates and “The Sacrifice”
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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Never one to shy away from controversial topics, Joyce’s latest novel is based on the true story of Tawana Brawley of upstate New York who made hea...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Mar 04, 2015
  • Length: 09:58
  • Purchases: 1
Mothering Decisions
From: With Good Reason
Series: news features
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Some critics of popular culture say there aren’t enough accurate portrayals of abortion decisions. But one scholar says, in some recent mother-daug...

Bought by KENW, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 27, 2015
  • Length: 03:42
  • Purchases: 3

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