PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Claudia Cruz, a Capital High junior, explores an aspect of immigration that not many discuss: gender.
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 03:15
Public education is a huge deal in New Mexico- Aaron Baca, a junior at Capital Highschool, discusses his newest problem with his schooling: a test ...
- Added: May 04, 2012
- Length: 03:49
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
A large football player with the footwork and soul of a matador tells his amazing story to his professor during office hours.
- Added: Feb 23, 2012
- Length: 02:35
- Added: Dec 03, 2011
- Length: 10:44
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 10:29
- Purchases: 1
Roxy Cruz, a 22-year old Mexican-American, spent a year in Nepal working with peasant farmers and migrant workers. She's now an environmental activ...
Bought by KWMR-FM and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Oct 27, 2011
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 2
Twelve-year old youth producer Vanessa Sanchez explores Mexico's relatively new artform of "Tribal" music, which merges cumbia with traditional Lat...
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 03:28
Youth producer Gracia Manzanares' touching interview with her mother about immigrating to the United States and the differences between women in Me...
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 03:07
Poet Sarah Bruno, 18, is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 as a member of team Youmedia Chicago.
Expl...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:46
Poet Christian Robinson, 18, is a senior at Oak Park and River Forest High School; he competed in Louder Than a Bomb 2011 representing his high sch...
- Added: Apr 01, 2011
- Length: 02:32
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.
- Added: Mar 29, 2011
- Length: 03:24
Youth producer and radio DJ Yithzak Ledesma explores his love of Tejano music and interviews a local Tejano DJ. Produced at LBJ High School in Aus...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Mar 16, 2011
- Length: 04:23
- Purchases: 1
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 1
"Family Tree" is a short piece written and produced by Andres Ortiz. His piece is a journey into Ortiz's unknown family history. Growing up being...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 06:08
Diana's experience transferring from a school in Brooklyn to one in the Bronx.
- Added: Feb 01, 2011
- Length: 09:29
Esmerelda Gonzales-Munoz's "The Love I Felt For You" shares with us her story about love. Created during Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensiv...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 03:20
Carmen Delzell tells about Michoacan and the Day of the Dead and the monarch butterflies. Like all Carmen's pieces, it's very personal, but reache...
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 03:17
- Purchases: 2
Carmen Delzell writes about her travels in Mexico and one of her favorite enchanted cheap hotels, the Hotel Isabel "on the edge of time." This pie...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 04:33
- Purchases: 1
Carmen Delzell with another lovely meditation on the mysteries of travel and her semi-magical, melancholy life in Mexico. Like all these pieces it...
Bought by KUT
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 05:57
- Purchases: 1
In this essay, Carmen Delzell tells how she initially left Texas and moved down to Mexico with no ability to speak Spanish and $600 cash from used ...
Bought by KUT, Public Radio Remix, and KUOW
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:17
- Purchases: 3
Carmen Delzell tells about how her boyfriend left her Saltillo, the town where she's living in Mexico. She looks for him, but can't find him, even...
Bought by KUOW, KUT, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 03:31
- Purchases: 3
In this 1999 essay, Carmen Delzell talks about smuggling toys and gifts across the US border into Mexico to give to the people in the village where...
Bought by KUT, WAMC, and Public Radio Remix
- Added: Dec 18, 2010
- Length: 04:08
- Purchases: 3
When Brenda was 7, she was carried across the border from Mexico. Now 19, the Minneapolis teen wishes she could live and work legally in the countr...
Bought by WGXC, KUNM, Radijojo World Children's Radio Network, and KSFR
- Added: Dec 08, 2010
- Length: 06:55
- Purchases: 4
In Colombia, where evidence is marred by politics, emotion and time, conclusions are hard to come by.
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Nov 29, 2010
- Length: 10:56
- Purchases: 1
