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Poetry as a Way of Knowing
From: Philosophy Talk
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What can we come to know through poetry that we couldn't through other forms of thinking and talking?

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  • Added: Mar 18, 2013
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 5
LiveHopeLove
From: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
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Writer and Poet Kwame Dawes explores HIV/AIDS in Jamaica, produced by Outer Voices, in association with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.

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  • Added: Dec 02, 2008
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 21
WORDSHAKERS Poetry Special
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Hearing Voices
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Poetry Grits Glory Verve

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2012
  • Length: 53:57
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The Children of Children Keep Coming
From: WNPR
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Through story and song, author Russell Goings has adapted his epic poem “The Children of Children Keep Coming” into an hour-long spoken word perfor...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2010
  • Length: 51:01
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DHARMA BEATS: an Interview with poets Marc Olmsted and Peter Marti
From: Julie Adler
Caption: Peter Marti & Marc Olmsted, Credit: Julie Adler
Interview with Beat poets Marc Olmsted and Peter Marti on their work, their Buddhist leanings and their love for mentor Allen Ginsberg.

  • Added: Mar 15, 2010
  • Length: 55:02
Renaissance Poetry: Madrigals, Chansons, and Villancicos
From: WFIU
Series: Harmonia Early Music
Caption: Renaissance madrigal composer Phillipe Verdelot, detail from Il Morto da Feltre, by Lorenzo Luzzo
An hour-long program of early music, exploring the poetic forms behind the most popular Renaissance vocal music from Italy, France, and Spain. Grea...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2011
  • Length: 58:58
Confronting the Warpland: Black Poets of Chicago
From: Ed Herrmann
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
Hear some of the great African American poets who have lived and worked in Chicago.

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  • Added: Jan 12, 2009
  • Length: 58:46
  • Purchases: 16
Eileen Myles: Rock Star Poet
From: WFIU
Series: Profiles
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An intimate hour with New York poet Eileen Myles.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2011
  • Length: 50:45
OPEN SOURCE: Poets of the Moment - Elliott Colla & Jaimy Gordon
From: Radio Open Source with Christopher Lydon
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Elliott Colla talks about the poetry of revolution and its role for transformation in Egypt. Then, we're with Jaimy Gordon, whose novel The Lord of...

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  • Added: Feb 18, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 3
Walt Whitman: Song of Myself
From: WNYC
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WNYC presents "Walt Whitman: Song of Myself." Hour hosted by Carl Hancock Rux, the program peels back Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" and we disco...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2006
  • Length: 58:58
  • Purchases: 40
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace: Peace Talks Radio (59:00 / 54:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Hour Long Specials
Caption: Ghanian Students Writing To Their Peace Pals in the U.S., Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

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  • Added: Dec 14, 2009
  • Length: 58:54
  • Purchases: 5
Interview with Wendell Berry
From: WFIU
Series: Profiles
Caption: Wendell Berry in Henry County, Kentucky in 2003. This photograph is part of the 40/40 Forty Years, Forty Portraits exhibit at Institute 193. , Credit: Guy Mendes
A rare interview with the American man of letters, advocate of sustainability and local agriculture, economic critic, and farmer Wendell Berry. Gre...

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  • Added: Feb 15, 2011
  • Length: 58:12
  • Purchases: 4
Show 2: Dylan and the Three Kings
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King in Folk Mode
Radical Solitude in "Just Like a Woman" and a Radio Drama

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:35
  • Purchases: 4
Show 1: Dylan as Poet
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Introduction to this series on Bob Dylan's Poetics with focus on "To Ramona"

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2009
  • Length: 59:54
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Show 4: Ballads, Part I
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: The Wayfaring Strangers Lay Down a Weary Tune
This show begins a two part series by focusing on ballads in the early albums released in 1963-65.

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  • Added: Jan 14, 2009
  • Length: 59:58
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Show 11: Art/Artist/Audience in Dylan' Songs
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Bill King dusting his broom
Dylan's Relationship to His Art, to himself as Artist, and to his Audience

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  • Added: Sep 27, 2008
  • Length: 59:13
  • Purchases: 3
Show 10: John Wesley Harding
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Released Dec. 1967
The JWH album traces Dylan's relationship with America and his spritual journey from outlaw to family man, from joker to thief.

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  • Added: Aug 14, 2008
  • Length: 01:02:25
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Show 12: Dylan and the Traditions
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan & the Traditions: Literature, Popular Song, Folk Song

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:00:13
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Show 9: Quinntessence
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Quinntessence: Dylan's Spiritual Quest

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 59:36
  • Purchases: 4
Show 8: Myths
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Dylan Debunks False Myths

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2008
  • Length: 01:01:55
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Show 5: Ballads, Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Fate in Dylan's Long Ballads

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 4
Show 3: The Joker and the Thief
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Folksong Night in Gunnison
Joker and Thief: Two Masks of Bob Dylan

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  • Added: Aug 12, 2008
  • Length: 59:23
  • Purchases: 4
Show 7: Love Songs Part II
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
Caption: Dr. Bill King
Extends part 6 by looking at "Visions of Johanna"

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  • Added: Jun 19, 2008
  • Length: 59:20
  • Purchases: 4
Show 6: Love Songs, Part I
From: Bill King
Series: Shakespeare in the Alley: Bob Dylan's Poetics
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Discussion of Dylan's Love Songs

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  • Added: Jun 18, 2008
  • Length: 59:40
  • Purchases: 4
BEAT LATINO 007: Poems and all that Song and Dance
From: Catalina Maria Johnson
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From 16 century mystics to Pablo Neruda and Federico Garcia Lorca - a wonderfully danceable sampler of Latin American and Spanish poems

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  • Added: Apr 14, 2007
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 2
Episode 5 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 5 features former poet laureates Anthony Hecht, Maxine Kumin, Reed Whittemore, and newly appointed laureate Donald Hall.

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  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:05
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Episode 4 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 4 features Howard Nemerov, Billy Collins and William Stafford. Optional 5-minute drop-in also available.

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  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
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Episode 3 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 3 of Life Distilled features former U.S. Poet Laureates Richard Wilbur, Robert Hass, Rita Dove and Stanley Kunitz. Optional 5-minute drop-...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:00
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 2 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 2 features former poet laureates from the 1990s: Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn and Robert Pinsky. They read some of their most famous poe...

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  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 8
Episode 1 - Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: Life Distilled: Four Decades of U.S. Poet Laureates
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Episode 1 features poet laureates Mark Strand, Gwendolyn Brooks and Ted Kooser discussing the art and craft of writing poetry and reading some of t...

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:02
  • Purchases: 10
What's the Word? Rhyme
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating Poetry
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Rhyme in Arabic, English, and French poetry

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2008
  • Length: 29:45
  • Purchases: 4
Maya Angelou & Guy Johnson - Mother and Son Poets become themselves
From: Sedge Thomson
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Mother and son poets meet to talk about the courage of poetry, the pleasures of red rice and language. Funny, moving.

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  • Added: Jan 08, 2006
  • Length: 44:47
  • Purchases: 9
Affrilachian Poets
From: With Good Reason
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Appalachia is often imagined as rural and white, but a new wave of African-American writers is challenging the notion of a single Appalachian regio...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 28:57
  • Purchases: 3
Art is Our Weapon: A Conversation With Climbing Poetree
From: Making Contact
Series: Making Contact
Caption: Climbing PoeTree in the Making Contact studio, Credit: George Lavender
Alixa and Naima are two poets who together make up Climbing PoeTree, an award winning performance duo. Mixing poetry and politics they seek to use...

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  • Added: Dec 28, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
Poets Off the Page: Music & Poetry
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Poets Off the Page
POETS OFF THE PAGE: POETRY & MUSIC features an interesting look at the works of three different poets who have recently merged their poetry with mu...

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  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
Past American Voices: Gwendolyn Brooks
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
Caption: Gwendolyn Brooks
The late Gwendolyn Brooks shaped countless writers following her long poetic career. This episode looks back on her life as the first African-Amer...

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
What's the Word? Mystical Poets
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
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How do those who have experienced the direct presence of God capture this heightened state in words?

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 5
What's the Word? Poetry for Children
From: Modern Language Association
Series: What's the Word? Celebrating National Poetry Month in April
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The poetry we hear—and create—as children teaches us about the power of words.

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  • Added: Mar 04, 2009
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 10
RN Documentary: Seamus Heaney: Bogging In Again
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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Poet and Nobel laureate revisits dark past in response to recent wars and violence

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  • Added: Dec 27, 2006
  • Length: 29:30
  • Purchases: 5
Poems and Pen Pals for Peace: Peace Talks Radio (29:00)
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio - Series of Half-Hours
Caption: Students In Dakar writing to their US Peace Pals, Credit: Project Peace Pal
This time on Peace Talks Radio, two women who are finding inspiration for peacemaking in the written word - through poetry and an international pen...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2009
  • Length: 29:01
"The Cruelest Month" 2011
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
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Ten poets reflect on love in all its forms in THE CRUELEST MONTH, a National Poetry Month special featuring Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Debra Mar...

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Whitman at War
From: With Good Reason
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On a trip to see his brother, Walt Whitman was so struck by the violence of the Civil War that he stayed to help heal wounded soldiers. He hoped hi...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2009
  • Length: 28:56
  • Purchases: 2
RN Documentary: Verbal Fireworks
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
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A profile of Alix Olson - award winning spoken word performance artist/activist considered by some “one of the ten most dangerous women in America.”

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2005
  • Length: 27:30
  • Purchases: 10
Passing Stranger: The East Village Walking Tour
From: HowSound
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Pejk Malinovksy on producing audio tours including Passing Stranger: The East Village Poetry Walk

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2012
  • Length: 12:34
  • Purchases: 2
"If You See Something" by John Mulrooney
From: Sean Cole
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This is a poem by Boston area poet and Suffolk University professor John Mulrooney, recorded at the Boston Poetry Massacre on July 30, 2004.

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  • Added: Aug 05, 2004
  • Length: 09:01
  • Purchases: 4
"If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak Out" SEASON TWO
From: Susan Stone
Caption: Justice for Youth mural, Credit: San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...

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  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 14:58
  • Purchases: 1
"If These Walls Could Talk: Inside Youth Speak Out" SEASON ONE
From: Susan Stone
Caption: Hip Hop Night in the Boys Unit (San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center), Credit: Joseph Rodriguez
"IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK: Inside Youth Speak Out" is a poetry series drawn from testimonial writings by the youngest members of America's prison ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2009
  • Length: 23:41
  • Purchases: 2
Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
From: Jenny Attiyeh
Caption: Emily Dickinson
When Helen Vendler was only 13, the future poetry critic and Harvard professor memorized several of Emily Dickinson’s more famous poems. They’ve st...

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2011
  • Length: 18:02
  • Purchases: 1
The War of the Gods
From: Matthew Cowley
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Epic poem about the Ali-Frazier fight (The Thriller in Manila) by James Tokley.

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  • Added: Feb 09, 2005
  • Length: 12:13
  • Purchases: 4
The Doors - Ray Manzarek
From: Cyrus Emerson
Caption: Ray Manzarek, Credit: http://www.raymanzarek.us/
Ray Manzarek talks about his passion for music and poetry and the literary legacy of the Doors.

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 07:16
  • Purchases: 1
Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community
From: Youth Radio
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Youth Radio chronicles life in Oakland, California, where an alarming number of youth homicides has weighed heavily on the community.

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  • Added: Oct 07, 2003
  • Length: 05:45
  • Purchases: 10
Poetry
From: Radio Rookies
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Bronx teen Judith Rudge turns to poetry to express her experience as an outsider.

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2006
  • Length: 06:48
  • Purchases: 4
Creation Poem
From: Youth Media Project
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Award winning and nationally acclaimed Native American students from the Santa Fe Indian School's Spoken Word Club perform "Creation Poem".

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2008
  • Length: 08:05
  • Purchases: 2
Hunting Poet
From: Jesse Dukes
Caption: John Casteen reads a poem by the light of his headlamp., Credit: Greg Antrim Kelly
Poet John Casteen hunts for deer and inspiration in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.

Bought by WNPR, KUOW, The Nature Podcast, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Sep 18, 2009
  • Length: 08:21
  • Purchases: 4
CURIUM: E.E. CUMMINGS FRIED IN A HARD DRIVE
From: John Diliberto
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A POET GETS DIGITIZED

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  • Added: Feb 13, 2007
  • Length: 07:27
  • Purchases: 2
Poetry Combine
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Larry Massett stories
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Street poets meet student poets in New Orleans

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2005
  • Length: 08:06
  • Purchases: 10
Louder Than A Bomb 2013 Radio Special
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: 2013 Team Finals stage at the Cadillac Palace Theater, Credit: (TimeOut/Jeff Kroll)
Over the past 13 years, Louder than a Bomb, Chicago’s youth poetry competition, has grown from humble roots in the basement of a Division Street th...

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  • Added: Apr 25, 2013
  • Length: 59:03
  • Purchases: 1
Ray by Natalie Richardson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Natalie Richardson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Natalie Richardson, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this ye...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:41
  • Purchases: 1
Slavery ended 140 years ago... by Malcolm London
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Malcolm London, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Malcolm London, 19, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third time this year. One of Chicago's most remarkable writers, Malcolm masterf...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:22
  • Purchases: 1
Found Letters to My Granddaughter by Walter Payton College Prep's Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Walter Payton College Prep Poetry Team, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"Found Letters to My Granddaughter" is a team piece performed by the poetry team of Walter Payton College Prep: junior Kamaria Woods, 17, senior Ma...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Trial of Eve by Hannah Srajer
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Hannah Srajer, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Hannah Srajer, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
Thick by Mia Harris
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Mia Harris, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mia Harris, 17, is a junior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this ye...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
Greater than a 36 by Delaney Miller
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Delaney Miller, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Delaney Miller, 17, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:46
Even the Toilets in Catholic Middle School are Blessed by Emma Coleman
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Emma Coleman, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Emma Coleman, 18, wrote this piece about experiences in an Opus Dei Catholic school. Now a senior at Northside College Preparatory High School...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
Midnight Manifesto by Ana Marx
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Ana Marx, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Ana Marx, 16, is a junior at Francis W. Parker School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. Exploring the art ...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:43
Easter by Nora Engel-Hall
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Nora Engel-Hall, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Nora Engel-Hall, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time th...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:25
Letter to My Unborn Daughter by Nina Coomes
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Nina Coomes, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Nina Coomes, 19, is a sophomore at The University of Chicago and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fifth time this year. Her piece "L...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
The Blind Side (Live!) or When White Women Raise Black Men by Kush Thompson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Kush Thompson, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Kush Thompson, 18, participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "The Blind Side (Live!) or When White Women Rai...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:30
Born Drillaz by YCLA's Keenan Davis
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Keenan Davis, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Keenan Davis, 19, is a junior at Youth Connection Leadership Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. His...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:06
Adore Your Innocence - I don't know this but I live this by Tanya Smith
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Tanya Smith, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Tanya Smith, 18, is a member of the Kuumba Lynx poetry team and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this year. Her piece "A...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:02
Someone Like You - I B Watching Yo Tweets by Kuumba Lynx
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Kuumba Lynx, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Kuumba Lynx is a team comprised of poets Jahleigh Bullie, 16, Tanya Smith, 18, Sejahari Saulter-Villegas, 14, and Jaremiah Perry, 18. The WINNERS o...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:16
Arizona Politricks by Kuumba Lynx
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Kuumba Lynx, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Kuumba Lynx is a team comprised of poets Jahleigh Bullie, 16, Tanya Smith, 18, Sejahari Saulter-Villegas, 14, and Jaremiah Perry, 18. Their group p...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
AIDS by Chelsea Dixon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Chelsea Dixon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Chelsea Dixon, 16, is a sophomore at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:45
Shred by Camara Brown
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Camara Brown, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Camara Brown, 17, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the second time this year. H...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
We Are Poets by Oak Park and River Forest High School Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: The poets of Oak Park and River Forest High School, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"We Are Poets" is a team piece that explores different parts of a march. Poets march in protest of a law passed in 2023 forbidding free speech. Per...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
Black Wars by Savia Gordon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Savia Gordon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Savia Gordon, 18, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the fourth time this ...

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  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:52
  • Purchases: 1
Heavenly Sin by Destiny McClendon
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Destiny McClendon, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Destiny McClendon, 17, is a senior at Gwendolyn Brooks College Preparatory Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time t...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:50
Sex Sells by Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Brooks College Prep's Lyrikally Xplicit, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Sex Sells is a team piece about the objectifying stereotypes of women, performed by the poets of Lyrikally Xplicit from Gwendolyn Brooks College Pr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:57
You Keep Going Back to Him by Antwon Funches
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Antwon Funches, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Antwon Funches, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. His piece "You...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:47
The Outfit by Mariah Starks
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Mariah Starks, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
Poet Mariah Starks, 15, is a freshman at Simeon Career Academy and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the first time this year. Her piece, "The...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:17
The Pursuit of Happiness by Writers Never Die of Simeon Career Academy
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
Caption: Writers Never Die, Simeon Career Academy, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"The Pursuit of Happiness" is a team piece about addiction performed by the poets of Writers Never Die from Simeon Career Academy: sophomore Deandr...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 03:01
99% Invisible #59- Some Other Sign That People Do Not Totally Regret Life (Standard 4:30 version)
From: Roman Mars
Series: 99% Invisible (Standard Length)
Piece image
Call it a "fentence."

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  • Added: Dec 11, 2012
  • Length: 04:29
  • Purchases: 2
1976 Allen Ginsberg - End Vietnam War
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
great pro peace performance by Ginsberg

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 04:16
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"Autobiography" by Joe Brainard
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Caption: From the cover of Mother: A Journal of New Literature (1964). Reproduced with permission., Credit: Joe Brainard
In his poem "Autobiography," Joe Brainard tells us who he is. Some of the things that make him unique challenge the status quo of 1950s Tulsa, wher...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:30
Twin Cities' Slam Poets
From: KFAI
Series: 10,000 Fresh Voices
Caption: 2012 Slam Team: L-R: Kait Rokowski, coach Sam Cook, Guante, Shane Hawley, Khary Jackson and Hieu Nguyen
Each month, slam poets take the stage at bars around the Twin Cities to compete for local acclaim and audience approval. Each year, a handful of lo...

  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 04:54
Dear First Grade Teacher by AJ Tran
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet AJ Tran
Poet AJ Tran, 18, is a senior at Northside College Prep. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advan...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:38
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Hallelujah the Saviors are Here by Rachel Smith
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Rachel Smith
Poet Rachel Smith, 18, is a senior and a member of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team. This is her second year participating in Loud...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:24
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51 Stars by Ashley Gonzalez
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Ashley Gonzalez
Poet Ashley Gonzalez, 18, is a senior at Northside College Prep. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, whi...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
Washing Delicates by Kristen Turner
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Kristen Turner
Poet Kristen Turner, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy. This is the second year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advanc...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:50
What Black People Say to Racist Republicans by TEAM Englewood
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: TEAM Englewood Slam Poetry Team
What Black People Say to Racist Republicans is a team piece performed by the poets of TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School Slam Poetry Team...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:55
My Generation by Ivery "Poison Ivery" Johnson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Ivery "Poison Ivery" Johnson
Poet Ivery "Poison Ivery" Johnson, 15, is a sophomore at Percy L. Julian High School. This is the first year the school has participated in Louder...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:44
Our Voices by Julian HS Slam Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Julian HS Slam Poetry Team
Our Voices is a team piece performed by the poets of the Percy L. Julian High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Jeffery "Tri-flow" Cain, 18, and Syd...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
The Commute by Northside College Prep
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Northside College Prep Slam Poetry Team
The Commute is a team piece performed by the poets of Northside College Prep Slam Poetry Team: seniors Ashley Gonzalez, 18, and Tyler Sauter, 18, a...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:53
I'm Not an Envelope Opener by Tova Benjamin
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Piece image
Poet Tova Benjamin, 17, participated as an individual poet representing In One Ear Open Mic at the Heartland Cafe. This is her first year particip...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:34
"Whatever you are, be a good one." by Keith Warfield
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Keith Warfield
Poet Keith Warfield, 18, is a senior at TEAM Englewood Community Academy High School. This is his fourth year participating in Louder Than a Bomb....

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
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Egypt by Natalie Richardson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Piece image
Poet Natalie Richardson, 16, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Eg...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:36
Prayer to God by Donald Lesley
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Donald Lesley
Poet Donald Lesley, 17, is a senior at Kenwood Academy. This is the first year he has represented his school at Louder Than a Bomb, which advanced ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:40
Social Damnation by Kenwood Academy
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Epic Sound Slam Team
Social Damnation is a team piece performed by the poets of Epic Sound, the Kenwood Academy Slam Poetry Team: seniors Kristen Turner, 17, Rachel Smi...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:44
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D.A.D. by Faith Lloyd
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Faith Lloyd
Poet Faith Lloyd, 17, is a junior at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. This is the first year she has represented her school at Louder Than a Bo...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:52
To Be Dr. Seuss's Son by Christian Palacios
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Christian Palacios
Poet Christian Palacios, 17, is a junior at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. This is the second year he has represented his school at Louder Th...

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:01
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To Save a Monster by Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Whitney Young HS Slam Poetry Team
To Save a Monster is a team piece performed by the poets of the Whitney M. Young Magnet High School Slam Poetry Team: seniors Essie Linzy, 18, and ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:02
Truth by CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah
Poet CeeJay "Shock Therapy" Hannah, 18, is a senior at Percy L. Julian High School. This is the first year the school has participated in Louder T...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:33
Lurking Strangers by Cecilia "Ce-Ce" Tate
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Ce-Ce Tate
Poet Cecilia "Ce-Ce" Tate, 17, is a junior at Curie Metro High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Her piece, Lur...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:56
Elvis by Camara Brown
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Camara Brown
Poet Camara Brown, 16, is a junior at Oak Park and River Forest High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Her piece...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:31
The Surrender of Troy Davis by Miona Short
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Miona Short
Poet Miona Short, 16, is a junior at Walter Payton College Prep High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:57
Brown Girl Grows Up Black by Asha Ransby-Sporn
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn
Poet Asha Ransby-Sporn, 17, is a senior at University of Chicago Laboratory High School. This is her first year participating in Louder Than a Bom...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
For Colored Girls Who Considered Yaky by Kush Thompson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Kush Thompson
Poet Kush Thompson, 17, is a senior at Orr Academy High School, but she was representing YOUmedia Chicago in this year's competition. This is her ...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:14
Rosie by Essie Lindzy
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Essie Linzy
Poet Essie Lindzy, 18, is a senior at Whitney M. Young Magnet High School. This is her second year participating in Louder Than a Bomb. Rosie reca...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 03:08
Why You Talk Like That? by Malcolm London
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2012
Caption: Poet Malcolm London
Poet Malcolm London, 18, is a 2011 graduate of Lincoln Park High School and participated in Louder Than a Bomb for the third year, this time as par...

  • Added: Mar 27, 2012
  • Length: 02:44
Poetry Bus
From: Jake Warga
Piece image
A short ride on the "poetry bus"

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  • Added: Jan 28, 2007
  • Length: 04:54
  • Purchases: 3
Poetry Happens
From: Paul McDonald
Piece image
Poetry is just as combustible and wild an art form as it always has been.

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  • Added: Apr 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:04
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"Coming Home" by Ken HAda
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
People on the street lend their own, unique voices to this communal reading of Ken Hada’s “Coming Home.” Full poem below.

  • Added: Aug 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:17
"Back Roads" by Laura Brandenburg
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
In this installment of Poetry to the People, people on the street read Laura Brandenburg's chilling poem, "Back Roads," about life in the country t...

  • Added: May 21, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
Cardiology
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
People on the street perform Niklaus Faith's "Cardiology" and discuss the importance of one dead bug and the universal desire to move mountains. Fu...

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
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Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
Deborah J. Hunter's poem "Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi" is performed live in Central Park by jazz musicians Tin Pan. Full poem below.

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  • Added: Jan 19, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
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Stringtown Prison Blues
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal system. Full transcript of po...

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  • Added: Dec 23, 2011
  • Length: 03:37
  • Purchases: 1
"Autobiography" by Joe Brainard
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Caption: From the cover of Mother: A Journal of New Literature (1964). Reproduced with permission., Credit: Joe Brainard
In his poem "Autobiography," Joe Brainard tells us who he is. Some of the things that make him unique challenge the status quo of 1950s Tulsa, wher...

  • Added: Nov 07, 2011
  • Length: 03:30
Building a Frog
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
We visit a group of campers who read "Building a Frog," an evocative poem by John Wooley. With the sounds of the forest, cicadas, crickets and frog...

  • Added: Sep 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:17
Spare Me Yellow Skies by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Caption: Oklahoma Drought in 2011, Credit: Al Jazeera English
This past July was the hottest month ever on record for Oklahoma, or any other state for that matter. Farmers and ranchers have been hit the hardes...

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  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 2
Cleaning Graves in Calvert
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
Cleaning Graves in Calvert recounts the ritual of death in small town Texas. Listen as a group of men read Quraysh Ali Lansana's poem and share the...

  • Added: Aug 05, 2011
  • Length: 02:56
Driveway by Ron Padgett
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Piece image
In his poem "Driveway," Ron Padgett wrestles with the city in his skin - Tulsa, Oklahoma. In this segment, we had people on the street read "Drivew...

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  • Added: Jul 13, 2011
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 2
Cicada III
From: This Land Press
Series: Poetry to the People
Caption: Cicada, Credit: Jeremy Luther
Cicada III is a communal reading of a poem by Oklahoma native Scott Aycock. In addition to Aycock's poem, we bring you a granddaughter's grief and...

  • Added: Jun 03, 2011
  • Length: 02:35
What is Poetry?
From: Hearing Voices
Series: Wandering Jew stories
Piece image
Sandburg on poetry

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  • Added: Sep 08, 2003
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 11
A Prohibition
From: Terin Mayer
Piece image
Three students reflect on what it means to be "Black" at Carleton College

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  • Added: Nov 08, 2005
  • Length: 04:27
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Radio
From: David Weinberg
Series: Random Tape
Caption: The Original Random Tape Zine
A poem by Alec Hershman.

  • Added: Jan 03, 2013
  • Length: :51
At Klipsan Beach
From: David Weinberg
Series: Random Tape
Caption: The Original Random Tape Zine
A Poem by James Arthur.

  • Added: Jan 17, 2013
  • Length: :38
James Earl Jones Reads Shakespeare's Sonnet #55
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Literary Moments
Piece image
Actor James Earl Jones reads Shakespeare's Sonnet #55.

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  • Added: Mar 25, 2008
  • Length: 01:26
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Togetherness, by Yusef Komunyakaa
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Actor Dion Flynn reads Yusef Komunyakaa's poem Togetherness

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
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Happiness by Jane Kenyon
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Jane Kenyon's poem Happiness, read by the actress Mary Testa

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2007
  • Length: 01:35
  • Purchases: 2
Permanent Press by Alice Friman
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Alice Friman reads his poem Affirmation

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  • Added: Mar 27, 2007
  • Length: :53
  • Purchases: 2
Seeing it Through by Alice Friman
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Alice Friman reads her poem Seeing it Through

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2007
  • Length: :39
  • Purchases: 2
Stolen Moments by Kim Addonizio
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Kim Addonizio reads her poem Stolen Moments

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  • Added: Mar 23, 2007
  • Length: 01:20
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Sotto Voce by C. Dale Young
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet C. Dale Young reads his poem Sotto Voce

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  • Added: Mar 21, 2007
  • Length: 01:26
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Time Done is Dark by Michelle Boisseau
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Michelle Boisseau reads her poem Time Done is Dark

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  • Added: Mar 20, 2007
  • Length: 01:36
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This by Ralph Angel
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Ralph Angel reads his poem This

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  • Added: Mar 19, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
Learning the Bicycle by Wyatt Prunty
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Wyatt Prunty reads his poem Learning the Bicycle

Bought by BSR Radio, KRUA, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 18, 2007
  • Length: 01:32
  • Purchases: 3
Minor Miracle by Marilyn Nelson
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Marilyn Nelson reads her poem Minor Miracle

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:40
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Worth by Marilyn Nelson
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Marilyn Nelson reads her poem Worth

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:51
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Romantic Moment by Tony Hoagland
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Tony Hoagland reads his poem Romantic Moment

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:23
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Winter by Marie Ponsot
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Marie Ponsot reads her poem Winter

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:02
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Anniversary by Marie Ponsot
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Marie Ponsot reads her poem Anniversary

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:46
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Box of Cigars by Gerald Stern
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Gerald Stern reads his poem Box of Cigars

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:41
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Responsibility in Metaphor by Tony Hoagland
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Tony Hoagland reads his poem Responsibility in Metaphor

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:57
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Two Poems by Jane Kenyon
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
The poet Donald Hall reads two poems by his wife, poet Jane Kenyon

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 02:10
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White Apples by Donald Hall
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Donald Hall reads his poem White Apples

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:08
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Her Garden by Donald Hall
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Donald Hall reads his poem Her Garden

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  • Added: Mar 14, 2007
  • Length: 01:30
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For the Taking by Linda Gregerson
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Linda Gregerson reads her poem For the Taking

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  • Added: Mar 13, 2007
  • Length: 02:25
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Horseflies by Robert Wrigley
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Robert Wrigley reads his poem Horseflies

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 02:19
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Heat by Jane Hirshfield
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem Heat

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 2
Tree by Jane Hirshfield
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
The poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem Tree

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:03
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A Cedary Fragrance by Jane Hirshfield
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem A Cedary Fragrance

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: :35
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The Envoy by Jane Hirshfield
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Jane Hirshfield reads her poem The Envoy

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:18
  • Purchases: 2
Arion by David Wojahn
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet David Wojahn reads his poem Arion

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
Do You Love Me by Robert Wrigley
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Robert Wrigley reads his poem Do You Love Me

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:46
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April 5, 1968 by Alan Williamson
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Poet Alan Williamson reads his poem April 5th, 1968

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2007
  • Length: 01:51
  • Purchases: 2
To Bessie Drennan by Mark Doty
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Mark Doty reads his poem To Bessie Drennan

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:47
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Nina's Blues by Cornelius Eady
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Cornelius Eady reads his poem Nina's Blues

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  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 01:23
  • Purchases: 2
I'm a Fool to Love You by Cornelius Eady
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poet Cornelius Eady reads his poem I'm a Fool to Love You

Bought by KRUA and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 02:21
  • Purchases: 2
Fable by Tom Sleigh
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poet Tom Sleigh reads his poem Fable

Bought by KRUA and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 08, 2007
  • Length: 03:00
  • Purchases: 2
Outside by Mark Jarman
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poet Mark Jarman reads his poem Outside

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 07, 2007
  • Length: 01:14
  • Purchases: 1
Buying the King-Size Bed by Fleda Brown
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poet Fleda Brown reads her poem Buying the King-Size Bed

Bought by KRUA and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 06, 2007
  • Length: 02:36
  • Purchases: 2
Hard Rain by Tony Hoagland
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Poet Tony Hoagland reads his poem Hard Rain

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and The PRX Podcast


  • Added: Feb 28, 2007
  • Length: 02:37
  • Purchases: 3
Waving Goodbye by Gerald Stern
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Gerald Stern reads his poem Waving Goodbye

Bought by KRUA and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 27, 2007
  • Length: 01:25
  • Purchases: 2
Affirmation by Donald Hall
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Donald Hall reads his poem Affirmation

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KRUA, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 26, 2007
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 3
Second Witness by Pattiann Rogers
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Mar 24, 2006
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 2
Busman's Honeymoon by A. F. Moritz
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors.

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 20, 2006
  • Length: 01:02
  • Purchases: 4
North of Mist by Wendy Videlock
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 17, 2006
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 3
And Day Brought Back My Night by Geoffrey Brock
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 16, 2006
  • Length: :53
  • Purchases: 2
Bolero by Gerald Stern
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 15, 2006
  • Length: :53
  • Purchases: 2
Parts of a Story by Mary Walker Graham
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 14, 2006
  • Length: 01:16
  • Purchases: 3
Houdini by Kay Ryan
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: :41
  • Purchases: 4
After Thanksgiving by Sandra M. Gilbert
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by Delta College Public Radio, KFAI, KRUA, KZYX, KFAI and more


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:40
  • Purchases: 7
A Pedestrian by Amit Majmudar
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 4
Some Words Inside of Words: For Children and Others by Richard Wilbur
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:31
  • Purchases: 3
Rue by Samuel Menashe
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: :27
  • Purchases: 3
Branch Library by Edward Hirsch
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
Piece image
Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: :46
  • Purchases: 4
Hostess by Tony Hoagland
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 3
White Bridge Road by Joan Murray
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WMPG, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 4
In the Metro by C. K. Williams
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:46
  • Purchases: 4
The Teacher by Billy Collins
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by Marfa Public Radio, KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, New Hampshire Public Radio, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 07, 2006
  • Length: 01:42
  • Purchases: 5
One Afternoon by Joanie Mackowski
From: Curtis Fox
Series: Poetry Off the Shelf
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Contemporary poems read by actors

Bought by KRUA, KUFM - Montana Public Radio, WNYC, and KZUM


  • Added: Mar 06, 2006
  • Length: 02:12
  • Purchases: 4
Chicagoans Consider Their Road Not Taken
From: Curie Youth Radio
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Robert Frost's famous poem helps us reflect on our own paths.

Bought by KUT


  • Added: Apr 27, 2009
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
1989 Joanne Kyger - Springtime Adonis Poem
From: Naropa University
Series: Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Caption: PRX default Piece image
One of the few Beat-era women writers reads her work

Bought by Moab Public Radio and KUNM


  • Added: Mar 23, 2005
  • Length: 01:52
  • Purchases: 2
Short List #2
From: David Green
Series: Short Lists
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A collaborative “Short List” poem which sheds light on the thoughts, secrets, senses of humor and lives of eight and nine-year-olds. Can you figure...

Bought by WTIP, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, Public Radio Remix, Moab Public Radio, Remix Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 23, 2010
  • Length: :49
  • Purchases: 6
"Youth, Day, Old Age, & Night" by Walt Whitman, recited by 6-yr.-old Gareth
From: Aaron Sanders
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Six-year-old Gareth has a voice made for poetry. He recites Walt Whitman's "Youth, Day, Old Age & Night."

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, KRUA, and KGLT


  • Added: Mar 31, 2006
  • Length: :48
  • Purchases: 3

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