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We continue Black History Month with the Past American Voice of Al Young, the two-time American Book Award winner, who passed away in 2021 at age 8...
- Added: Feb 24, 2023
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Writing As A Political Act" - In peaceful times, and in moments of violence, writers have used their art as protest, remembrance, and so...
- Added: May 06, 2022
- Length: 01:59:01
HOUR ONE: "The Tangled Roots Of War And Peace" - 1936 was an ominous year. A young George Orwell was headed to battle in Spain. But first, he plant...
- Added: Mar 04, 2022
- Length: 01:58:59
Poetry and music about experiencing emotional pain and longing during the holiday season.
- Added: Dec 05, 2020
- Length: 59:16
Considered by his native Canada to be nothing less than a national treasure, multiple Juno Award winning songwriter, guitarist and social and spiri...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer, KMXT, WMUU-LP, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2019
- Length: 29:04
- Purchases: 4
This program explores the collaboration between author, teacher and activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician, songwriter and singer Gregory Hoskins....
Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Nov 03, 2019
- Length: 29:34
- Purchases: 1
Poetry about five particular musical instruments.
- Added: Sep 21, 2019
- Length: 58:00
Fantasy and imagination explored through music and poetry.
- Added: May 12, 2019
- Length: 52:42
- Added: Dec 22, 2018
- Length: 01:00:13
Bill Sullivan spent years as a roadie with The Replacements, traveling with the band at first in the "lemon jail," a late 70's Ford Econoline van n...
- Added: May 10, 2018
- Length: 08:32
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
Douglas Kearney pays tribute to the late music icon Prince.
- Added: Jun 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
We’ll feature four modern masterpieces for string quartet by Walter Mays, John Adams, Andrzej Panufnik, and John Corigliano on this episode of What...
- Added: Jun 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:00
- Purchases: 7
Our topic this week is creativity behind bars. We showcase poetry from prisoners working with the Indiana Prisoners' Writing Project, a piece by Sh...
- Added: Jan 16, 2017
- Length: 28:19
Impressions of the onset of winter and snow, with music by Frederic Chopin.
- Added: Dec 03, 2016
- Length: 56:51
Leonard Cohen: How a shy, sensitive poet from Canada became a major recording artist. This one-hour radio show documents Leonard Cohen's very firs...
- Added: Nov 21, 2016
- Length: 57:30
A tribute to singer/songwriting legend Leonard Cohen who passed away November 7, 2016 at the age of 82.
Bought by Wyoming Public Radio, WUTC, KRCB 104.9, KVMR, KMSU and more
- Added: Nov 11, 2016
- Length: 58:52
- Purchases: 21
Interviews with Entertainment Attorney Neville Johnson and Actor, Model Ricky Ryba, Plus music by Whitney Tai.
- Added: Aug 15, 2016
- Length: 59:52
National Book Award winner Patti Smith, also known as "the godmother of punk", dishes on what inspires her writing, what her editing process entail...
- Added: Aug 05, 2016
- Length: 10:47
The best of Stephen Sondheim from "West Side Story" to "Into The Woods"
Bought by Kansas Public Radio, WVTF, and WRR
- Added: Mar 26, 2016
- Length: 58:09
- Purchases: 3
Philip Lee Williams talks about how science, literature, music and visual art have helped shape his writing life. In this first half of a two part ...
Bought by WMUU-LP
- Added: Dec 18, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Guest Host Andy Mahler is joined by the musicians performing in “A Show of Hats," April 29th, at the Buskirk-Chumley Theater: Dillon Bustin, Travis...
- Added: Apr 28, 2015
- Length: 01:00:32
Midnight In Mexico is Alfred Corchado’s reflections on his reporting from mexico for various US based newspapers, including a step by step retellin...
- Added: Oct 16, 2014
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
On the 35th Anniversary of Alien, "The Icy Winds of Lovecraft" looks at how Alien and John Carpenter's The Thing were both influenced by the strang...
- Added: Oct 08, 2014
- Length: :58
Nick Flynn, author of Another Bullshit Job in Suck City, reads a poem about the late guitarist and songwriter Lou Reed.
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Sep 02, 2014
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 1
