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Updated: Jun 03, 2023

Iris's List

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Updated: Jun 02, 2023

KNOW Shows

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Updated: Jun 02, 2023

Military Voices Initative

StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative provides a platform for veterans, service members, and military families to share their stories. In doing so we honor their voices, amplify their experiences, and let them know that we—as a nation—are listening. Learn more at:...
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Updated: Jun 01, 2023

Bioneers for Radio

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Updated: Jun 01, 2023

Atomic Hour Decade Specials

Every Tenth Episode, We Whip Up Somethin' Special!
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Updated: May 30, 2023

Juneteenth

Celebrated June 19
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Updated: May 27, 2023

TINA TURNER Tribute Specials

In this pair of special hours from producer Paul Ingles, listeners will hear a mix of tracks from over 50 years of recording and performing by Tina Turner - first in the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, then as a solo artist starting in the middle 1970's. Music writers and educators Holly Gleason,...
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Updated: May 25, 2023

Fourth of July

All the ingredients you need.
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Updated: May 25, 2023

Memorial Day

Memorial Day is Monday, May 29th.
Caption: Sylvia Mendez (L) talks to her sister Sandra Mendez Duran (R). <a href="http://www.prx.org/pieces/46621-storycorps-historias-sylvia-mendez-and-sandra-men">Listen Here</a>.
Updated: May 23, 2023

'Historias'

StoryCorps' collection of Latino stories from all across the country.
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Updated: May 22, 2023

Tuesday Night Special

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Updated: May 22, 2023

Pride Month

Pride Month starts on Thursday June 01, 2023.
Caption: Poems of honoring, of joy, of living., Credit: Susan Cook in  "Breathing: American Sonnets"
Updated: May 19, 2023

Poem In Your Pocket Day

April 27 is Poem In Your Pocket Day, part of the annual indulgence of the written word in Poetic form. Here are some (or maybe pick just one) poem for your Pocket. From the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"
Caption: Edna St Vincent Millay wrote many sonnets., Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 19, 2023

Poet Susan Cook Poems

Poet Susan Cook Poems are written in a form she calls the American Sonnet. After submitting her collection "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley contest, sponsored by Alice James Books, she has continued to find new intricacies in this form, some of which are gathered here. She has now...
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Updated: May 18, 2023

Black Music IS Black History

Producer Paul Ingles gathers his many music documentaries and appreciation programs spotlighting black artists into one powerful playlist that stations and listeners can pull from to celebrate the greats either during February's BLACK HISTORY MONTH or June's BLACK MUSIC APPRECIATION MONTH. ...
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Updated: May 18, 2023

The Citizens' Guides

If we tell each other what we know about being citizens in this great country, maybe more of us will take part and help sustain participation. The Citizens' Guides are a collection of how-to, what-for and where-with-all commentaries, based on the experience of this writer as she negotiates the...
Caption: The consequence? Intimidation of constituents so they dare not call..., Credit: SusanCook
Updated: May 18, 2023

Civil Liberties for Lifelong Learners

Commentaries, Sixty Second Moral Inquiries and Two and One Half Minute Conspiracy Theories along with a lyric or two for The Great American Wrongbook (and the Department of Poetic Justice and Reckoning) ! Life long education to answer the question : What is a civil liberty anyway? In 2011, at...
Caption: The hand life deals you..., Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 18, 2023

The Indifference Diaries

Elie Weisel, the humanitarian Holocaust survivor, once said "The opposite of love is not hatred, it's indifference". Indifference brings out the worst in humanity sometimes. Sometimes we can't document the day-to-day sequence of events that culminate in harm. And sometimes we can.
Caption: Lyrics too! "The old gray mare...", Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 18, 2023

The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)

Back in 2013, my collection "Blue: American Sonnets" was entered in a contest sponsored by the Alice James Press. Inspired by myself, here I present my American sonnets , many from "Blue: American Sonnets", odes, lyrical tributes- the emotional angst and pleasure of poetry brought to our longing...
Caption: ...it's what you do with what you get.., Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 18, 2023

It's Not What You're Given. It's What You Do With What You Get

These days, from the new fascination with genetic endowment and Ancestry to the moral entitlement of any number of religious sects, what you are given is grabbed to like a brass ring. Enough to make a difference. Turns out though, as the lyrics of a great Maine jazz singer remind us, it's...
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (gulfofmainebooks@gmail.com or Shermans.com), Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 18, 2023

National Poetry Month: American Sonnets and One Ode

In celebration of written and spoken poetry, some from Breathing: American Sonnets. Some first appearing here. Einstein's Sonnet written in 2008. All by Susan Cook.
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Updated: May 17, 2023

OutLoud for Pride Month 2023

Celebrate Pride Month this June with StoryCorps by airing stories from our OutLoud collection - an effort to record, preserve and share voices from the LGBTQ+ community. For additional materials visit https://storycorps.org/stations/storycorps-outloud/ (pw: Danny loves Annie). Reach out to...
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Updated: May 16, 2023

Walk

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Updated: May 16, 2023

29:00 PA Fillers

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Updated: May 16, 2023

Family

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Updated: May 13, 2023

This American Life

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Updated: May 09, 2023

OutLoud

Caption: Public radio that is truly public prevents the silencing of those voicing concern about violations of human rights., Credit: Susan Cook
Updated: May 05, 2023

The River Is Wide

The River Is Wide is written by a political activist and psychologist. Citizen's Guides, the occasional Congressional Guide, sonnets when no other format seems appropriate, A Sixty Second Moral Inquiry from time to time, original poetry from our Department of Poetic Justice and brief essay-ish...
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Updated: May 05, 2023

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