All Pieces for New Letters on the Air
Edwidge Danticat, winner of the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, returns fifteen years after her first interview with NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR to t...
- Added: Feb 06, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Poet Walter Bargen, the author of over a dozen books, served as Missouri's first Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. In this interview, he talks about...
- Added: Jan 31, 2014
- Length: 29:00
In this compilation of archive interviews from 1988 and 1996 along with part of a previously unaired 2004 recording, we look back at the life of Am...
- Added: Jan 23, 2014
- Length: 29:00
The 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry, Alice Friman's other honors include the Ezra Pound Poetry Award for her third book, ZOO. In t...
- Added: Dec 20, 2013
- Length: 29:00
David Clewell, former Poet Laureate of Missouri (2010-12), whose new work is featured in the current issue of NEW LETTERS magazine, draws upon a mi...
- Added: Dec 04, 2013
- Length: 29:00
We finish National Novel Writing Month with the Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Richard Ford, who sees fiction as a vehicle to provide renewal and ...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
NAOMI BENARON is a trained scientist, marathon runner, and massage therapist. She is also the author of two award-winning fiction books, LOVE LETTE...
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- Added: Nov 07, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...
- Added: Oct 25, 2013
- Length: 29:00
We continue our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month with Linda Rodriguez, author of the poetry collection HEART'S MIGRATION. A winner o...
- Added: Oct 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
We kick off National Hispanic Heritage Month (Sept.15-Oct.15) with members from the Kansas City Latino Writers Collective, who discuss the importa...
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- Added: Sep 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Thomas Fox Averill's novel RODE was named the 2012 Outstanding Western Novel by the National Cowboy Museum, Based on the American song "Tennessee ...
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- Added: Sep 11, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
We celebrate the working man by revisiting B.H. Fairchild's poetry collection, THE ART OF THE LATHE. This book gives insight into the life and wor...
- Added: Sep 05, 2013
- Length: 29:00
Winner of the 2012 Wallace Stevens Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Academy of American Poets, Gary Snyder discusses the changing worlds of ...
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- Added: Aug 21, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Our SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES selection this month features a 2001 public reading by Maxine Kumin, who shares poetry on a a variety of topics from b...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Peggy Shumaker, Alaska's State Writer Laureate, 2010-2012, is adept at capturing the beauty of landscapes, both internal and external. She reads fr...
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- Added: Jul 24, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Poet James Richardson has called himself an "accidental aphorist," but his well-crafted works are no accident. He reads from his 2010 book, BY THE ...
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- Added: Jul 18, 2013
- Length: 29:00
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Two of Daniel Woodrell's eight novels are now acclaimed films. The 1998 movie RIDE WITH THE DEVIL was adapted from his novel WOE TO LIVE ON, and th...
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- Added: Jun 28, 2013
- Length: 29:00
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This month's Save America's Treasures Archive selection features the perfect poet to hear around Memorial Day--the late John Ciardi, who was a gunn...
- Added: May 31, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
After working for years as a corporate lawyer in England, Alex George moved to the states with his family and opened his own law practice in mid-Mi...
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- Added: May 15, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Pakistani-American writer Ayad Akhtar has made a living as a screenwriter, but 2012 brought him notice as both a playwright and a novelist. He deb...
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- Added: May 01, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
