All Pieces for New Letters on the Air
Alice Friman reads from her most recent of her six poetry collections THE VIEW FROM SATURN, VINCULUM, and THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER. She talk...
- Added: Jan 11, 2017
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Dramatist Anna Deavere Smith discusses her technique of interviewing real people to use their stories on stage. She talks about the School to Priso...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Dec 01, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Gary Ferguson speaks about wilderness, loss, grief, and the symbolism of loons as reads from his memoir, THE CARRY HOME: LESSONS FROM THE AMERICAN ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Nov 09, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poet Adam Zagajewski (zah-gah-yev-ski), the 2016 recipient of the Griffin Lifetime Achievement Prize for Excellence in Poetry, was born in Lwow, Po...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Oct 26, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
As National Hispanic Heritage Month is concluding, we also mark October's LGBT History Month with Rigoberto Gonzalez, the 2015 winner of The Bill W...
- Added: Oct 12, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 4
For National Hispanic Heritage Month, we revisit Benjamin Alire Saenz, who is known for his award-winning fiction, young adult novels, and poetry....
- Added: Sep 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Discover the poetic variety of Missouri in this special program featuring readings from the Midwest Poets Series by three very different Missouri p...
- Added: Sep 14, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Winner of the 2012 Bellday Poetry Prize for his fourth book, PIE 8, Dennis Finnell discusses his unique approach to composing this work and how it ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Aug 03, 2016
- Length: 30:00
- Purchases: 1
National Magazine Award winning essayist Thomas E. Kennedy discusses his approach to essay writing, particularly in his collection RIDING THE DOG: ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 28, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Jul 22, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail reads from her three books: THE WAR WORKS HARD, DIARY OF A WAVE OUTSIDE THE SEA, and THE IRAQI NIGHTS. Pushed ou...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
John Berendt, recorded at HEAR/NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City, discusses his best-selling MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD A...
- Added: Jun 16, 2016
- Length: 29:00
Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 20...
- Added: Jun 06, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
As part of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month, we hear from Jonathan Stalling, the first westerner chosen as Beijing University's Poet-in-Reside...
- Added: May 18, 2016
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 2
We remember a Past American Voice--Arkansas native and former Rhode Island Poet Laureate, C.D. Wright who died suddenly in early 2016. She authored...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: May 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Georgia State Poet Laureate Judson Mitcham shares stories about some of his influences, including the late poets Richard Hugo, William Stafford and...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Kansas Poet Laureate (2009-2013) Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg is the author of multiple books of poetry and prose. She discusses her many books, includin...
- Added: Apr 05, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
For Women's History Month, we revisit a novel that's built around real life West Virginia murders of a widow and her three children during the Grea...
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- Added: Mar 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
The 2016 Features Editor of THE NATION, Kai Wright, discusses his 2009 anthology, THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: BLACK HISTORY AND CULTURE THROUG...
Bought by KCMJ Community Radio and WNJR
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackso...
Bought by WNJR and KUFM - Montana Public Radio
- Added: Feb 11, 2016
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
