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The Poet and the Painter
From: Jackson Braider
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The story of how a poet inspired a painter to draw a picture about a poem that had, in turn, been inspired by a piece of the painter's work.

Bought by KUCB, Connecticut Public (WNPR), WHQR, and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 27, 2005
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 4
What's the Word? Literature of the Holocaust
From: Modern Language Association
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Memoirs, poetry, drama, and fiction about the Holocaust.

Bought by WLIW, WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KFSR and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 29:43
  • Purchases: 8
What's the Word? Literature by Child Survivors of the Holocaust
From: Modern Language Association
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Fiction and a memoir by child survivors.

Bought by WLIW, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., KBYS 88.3 FM, WXDU and more


  • Added: Mar 24, 2005
  • Length: 30:01
  • Purchases: 8
1999 Michael Ondaatje - Elimination Dance
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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ondaatje reads great poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:59
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Amselm Hollo - Big Shoes
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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New American Poet Anselm Hollo reads his anti-Nike poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
1997 Lorenzo Thomas - The New Age
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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black arts movement poet reads an anti war poem

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:21
  • Purchases: 1
1998 Carl Rakosi - Satyricon
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Rakosi reads incisive political critique

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:50
  • Purchases: 1
1995 Anne Waldman - Simulacrum (Not a Real Life, Cheap Imitation)
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Waldman in a strong political performance of her poetry

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
1990 Bobbie Louise Hawkins - First Story
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Bobbie Louise Hawkins is a Beat era writer and one woman performer, reading a beautiful piece

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 06:55
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KISU, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 4
1986 William S. Burroughs - Dr. Benway
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Burroughs reads the provocative Dr. Benway bit

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:30
  • Purchases: 1
1985 Amiri Baraka - Why's Wise
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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A powerful 1985 reading of an anti slavery poem by the late Amiri Baraka. In this piece, Baraka treats the issue of voice - and what happens when a...

Bought by KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:51
  • Purchases: 1
1975 Ted Berrigan - Heroin
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Ted Berrigan Reads his poem "Heroin"

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 02:29
  • Purchases: 2
1976 Allen Ginsberg - End Vietnam War
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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great pro peace performance by Ginsberg

Bought by KZYX and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:16
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Philip Whalen - Statement on Poetry
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Whalen reads poem on consciousness and poetry

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 2
1975 Gregory Corso - The Mad Yak
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
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Beat great Gregory Corso reads in 1975

Bought by KUNM and WZBC


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Whitman - The Good Gray Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the later life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by KMUN, KSJD, WHQR, and KUOW


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:25
  • Purchases: 4
RN Documentary: Whitman - Songs of the Poet
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Explores the early life of Walt Whitman, considered by many to be the Father of Modern Poetry.

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston, KUOW, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Mar 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:28
  • Purchases: 3
Alex Caldiero- Poet?
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Scott Carrier stories
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Profile of Utah poet/performer Alex Caldiero

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KUT, PRX Remix, The Story, KUT and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2005
  • Length: 05:47
  • Purchases: 6
Poetry Combine
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Larry Massett stories
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Street poets meet student poets in New Orleans

Bought by KVNF, New Hampshire Public Radio, KALW, KZYX, WSLR and more


  • Added: Mar 20, 2005
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 13
Transit Duchess
From: Marjorie Van Halteren
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Inner thoughts riding bus late at night in New York

  • Added: Mar 19, 2005
  • Length: 02:10
Lapsarian Hummingbirds
From: Dale Short
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A poetic tribute to the arrival of the hummingbird

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


  • Added: Mar 16, 2005
  • Length: 04:18
  • Purchases: 2
Home Planet: In The Mood...For A Good Book.
From: Spokane Public Radio
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Like a lot of people, columnist Cheryl-Anne Millsap misses having a little fun between the covers...of a good book.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2005
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Paternalism
From: Talking History
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Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00
RN Documentary: Will the Real Will Shakespeare Please Stand Up?
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Focus on Poetry
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Harvard professor Stephen Greenblatt and Amsterdam writer Rodney Bolt face off in a discussion on the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays moderated b...

Bought by KFCF FM, WCPN, KQED, and WHQR


  • Added: Feb 22, 2005
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 4

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