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"It's A Grand Night for Bailing!" In the Department of Poetic Justice (some Lyrics for the Great American Wrongbook) !
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook
In The Department of Poetic Justice i(with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:53
"A Sonnet for the Waterfall" Remembering Ruth Bader Ginsburg
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

Bought by KICI Iowa City and KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 2
A Sonnet Sequence for Edna St Vincent Millay
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 1
The Falcon Teaches World Democracies about Intervening in Ukraine: An American Sonnet
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook
The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Remembering September 11, 2001: "The Fall"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Journalist Suppression and Fear for Democracy- Sonnet for the Journalist Who Said 'Wink, Wink'
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
  • Purchases: 1
Imagining where love came from: Sonnet for the Primordial Gravity Waves
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
On the death of Stephen Hawking "Sonnet for The Black Hole" "Sonnet for A Loss"
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook
Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:03
  • Purchases: 1
Sonnet for What Will Be Well
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
  • Purchases: 1
One Doctor’s Quest to Improve Health Care for People with Disabilities
From: Tradeoffs
Caption: Kevin Carlson ringside at Monday Night Raw., Credit: Tradeoffs/Leslie Waker
As adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities strive to live more freely and fully than ever before, many of America’s doctors, hospit...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2024
  • Length: 27:55
The Mass Shooting Sequence: In Memoriam
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
We know too much of the sequence of the aftermath of a Mass Shooting Sequence.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Feb 15, 2024
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 1
The Black Panther Party: Revolutionaries for Racial Justice
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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The Black Panther Party’s founding in 1966 was inspired by the prevalent issues of police brutality, poverty, and lack of access to healthcare face...

  • Added: Feb 09, 2024
  • Length: 09:58
Taking What Is Not Yours To Take; Giving What's Not Yours To Give
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
What leads people to take what is not theirs to take? Or give what is not theirs to give or for that matter, withhold from others? These are questi...

  • Added: Jan 26, 2024
  • Length: 04:59
Looking for the Wounded Deer: Doing Good in the Face of Culturally Sanctioned Aggression
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
A Registered Maine Guide I know searched for a wounded deer - wounded but not felled- he still seeking to do good for evil - as it is perceived by ...

  • Added: Jan 20, 2024
  • Length: 04:50
To the First Images Seen of A Black Hole
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
Caption: " Breathing: American Sonnets" (Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook
Black holes still doing what they do. Re-visiting Einstein imagining his most important discovery.

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Jan 05, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
  • Purchases: 1
Rural Aging Population
From: Adam Scull
Series: WPRN Public Radio
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The phenomenon of an aging population is reshaping the demographic landscape globally, with its impact being profoundly felt in rural areas. Unlike...

  • Added: Jan 01, 2024
  • Length: 04:26
Post-Roe America preview: Conversation with Alison Block, MD
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
Caption: The Nocturnists: Post-Roe America series, Credit: Nicole Xu
After the Supreme Court’s landmark Dobbs decision in June 2022, Dr. Emily Silverman spoke with Dr. Alison Block – a family medicine physician, abor...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2023
  • Length: 48:10
The EMS - Mold Connection with Dr. Sharon Goldberg
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Integrative health physician Dr. Sharon Goldberg talks about helping her patients who suffer from Electromagnetic Sensitivity and how their symptom...

Bought by WMUU-LP and WRFA-LP


  • Added: Nov 01, 2023
  • Length: 28:51
  • Purchases: 2
A Poem to the President of the NRA
From: Susan J. Cook
Series: The River Is Wide
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This poem to the President of the NRA has no statistics, no logic, no legal reasoning or principle. Only profound grief and sadness..

  • Added: Oct 27, 2023
  • Length: 01:09
Post-Roe America: 3. Trust Women
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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After the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, many states in the middle of the country severely restricted abortion – but Kansas stood out as an except...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, and KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif.


  • Added: Oct 06, 2023
  • Length: 36:11
  • Purchases: 3
Post-Roe America: 2. The Canary
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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When SB 8 passed in September 2021, Texas clinicians experienced a “Dobbs before Dobbs” effect, almost nine months before the rest of the nation. W...

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 27:32
  • Purchases: 4
Post-Roe America: 1. The Day Roe Fell
From: The Nocturnists
Series: Post-Roe America
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When the U.S. Supreme Court hands down the Dobbs decision, clinicians rush to decipher its implications.

Bought by KGLP, KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., and WYAP


  • Added: Sep 29, 2023
  • Length: 26:52
  • Purchases: 4
Never Drink from a Plastic Bottle with Dr. Jenny Davies
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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Dr. Jenny Davies (MD, MPH and JD) talks about how chemicals in plastic leach into the contents of any plastic bottle.

Bought by WRFA-LP, WMUU-LP, and WYAP


  • Added: Jun 12, 2023
  • Length: 28:41
  • Purchases: 3
Of Course, Fortification
From: Jonathan Nellermoe
Caption: WHA75 "Walk the Talk", Field Recording, Credit: Kate, Partners in Health
An audio producer falls into step with a global advocacy campaign at the very moment it rises to call for mandatory action to fortify staple foods ...

  • Added: Apr 20, 2023
  • Length: 04:00
The Cell Phone Disconnect
From: Doug Wood
Series: Green Street News
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On this edition of GSN, Dr. Paul Heroux explains some of the history of cell phones and how and why they should be made safer.

Bought by WYAP


  • Added: Apr 10, 2023
  • Length: 28:15
  • Purchases: 1

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