All Pieces for New Letters on the Air

 
Back to the Writing Well featuring Elizabeth Gaffney, George Saunders, and the late Pat Conroy
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR's Classic Series continues with "Back to the Writing Well." This time we'll hear about the influence of place and family fro...

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  • Added: Jul 29, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
Scottish Poet and Editor Robin Robertson: Part 1
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Robin Robertson, whose known for his translations of ancient Greek works and his depiction of folktales from his native Scotland, discusses how myt...

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  • Added: Jul 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet Elizabeth Alexander
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Obama's 2009 Presidential Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander captures African-American voices and traditions from slavery to the present in her boo...

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  • Added: Jul 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Poet and Musician Ted Olson Discusses Appalachia
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Ted Olson, a professor of Appalachian Studies at East Tennessee State University, discusses how his writing has been impacted by the region's histo...

  • Added: Jul 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
Rupert Thomson discusses his novel Never Anyone But You
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British writer Rupert Thomson, whose 2021 book BARCELONA DREAMING is set just before the 2008 financial crash, often writes about tough times. He ...

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  • Added: Jul 01, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet Jericho Brown
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For National Pride Month, we'll hear from 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winner Jericho Brown, who describes the joy he finds in writing poetry and how his wo...

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  • Added: Jun 22, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Novelist and Retired California Supreme Court Lawyer Michael Nava
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Pride Month begins with former California Supreme Court attorney, Michael Nava. The author of now ten novels in the Henry Rios mystery series, seve...

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  • Added: Jun 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Poet Rick Barot
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Filipino-American poet Rick Barot started writing nonfiction. Now a poet with four award-winning books to his name, he discusses how the writing pr...

Bought by KRBD, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WJCU


  • Added: May 20, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
More with Lawyer turned Poet Monica Youn
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We begin Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with a conversation with lawyer-turned-poet Monica Youn. Though both her parents were born in Korea,...

Bought by KWMR, GCR (Global Community Radio), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: May 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Poet and Editor Kwame Dawes
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Born in Ghana and raised in Jamaica, the poet Kwame Dawes is the editor of Nebraska's literary magazine, PRAIRIE SCHOONER, and the 2021 successor t...

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  • Added: Apr 15, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser
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Ted Kooser describes his journey from insurance executive in Nebraska to being tapped as the first U.S. Poet Laureate from the Great Plains in 200...

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  • Added: Apr 06, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Arab-American Writer Naomi Shihab Nye: Part 1
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Arab-American poet Naomi Shihab Nye, the Poetry Foundation's Young People's Poet Laureate, reads from her book, TENDER SPOT, including her poem "Fa...

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  • Added: Mar 30, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Black Women Writers in History
From: New Letters on the Air
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Women's History Month continues as we go to the archives to revisit Black Women Writers in History, a program that examines important African-Ameri...

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  • Added: Mar 17, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 28
Women Writing Women
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In this special anthology program novelist Meg Wolitzer and poet Molly Peacock both discuss the importance of writing about the lives and work of w...

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 2
From: New Letters on the Air
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Affrilachian and Cave Canem poet Nikky Finney talks about her father, the first African American Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court,...

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
The Past American Voice of Playwright August Wilson
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For Black History Month, NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR revisits this program with the late August Wilson. FENCES, his Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winnin...

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  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
National Book Award-winning Poet Nikky Finney: Part 1
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NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues Black History Month with Nikky Finney whose fifth book is called LOVE CHILD'S HOTBED OF OCCASIONAL POETRY: POEMS A...

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  • Added: Feb 16, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poet DaMaris Hill
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We celebrate Black History Month with DaMaris Hill, the youngest and first living American poet to be signed to Bloomsbury Publishing. In the final...

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  • Added: Feb 10, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Chekhov Inspired Fiction Writer Catherine Browder
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Describing herself as a latecomer to writing, author Catherine Browder discusses her book, NOW WE CAN ALL GO HOME, which pays tribute to Anton Chek...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2021
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Award-winning Poet and Fiction Writer Laura Kasischke
From: New Letters on the Air
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The National Book Critics Circle Award-winning poet, Laura Kasischke discusses her journey to writing fiction. Now the author of nine novels, she ...

  • Added: Jan 28, 2021
  • Length: 29:00

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