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Culturology: Author Mary Losure Talks To Heidi Holtan in a Real Good Words Interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: "Wild Boy: The Real Life of the Savage of Aveyron." by Mary Losure
Mary Losure began her wandering career path backpacking in the mountains of California and Oregon and kayaking in the Prince William Sound in Alask...

  • Added: May 14, 2013
  • Length: 19:55
The Beat: Carol Ann Russell- "Poets of the Non-Catholic Cemetary"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Racial Innocence (Pledge Drive)
From: Guy Rathbun
Series: IdeaSphere: A Platform for Today's Voices
Caption: Professor Robin Bernstein
Professor Robin Bernstein: Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights.

Bought by KCBX


  • Added: Mar 05, 2013
  • Length: 19:59
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Steve Downing talks Poet Laureates in Minnesota
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Culturology
Caption: Steve Downing
Steve Downing recently attended the inaugural reading and crowning of Deborah Cooper as Duluth's fourth Poet Laureate. Steve recounts a brief histo...

  • Added: Dec 03, 2012
  • Length: 04:22
The Beat: Michelle Mathees - "Pink Horizon In Siberia"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
The Beat: Lorie Yourd - "Montana Log Cabin Cafe"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: The Beat
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 02:01
Muddy Jungle Rivers: Wendell Affield talk about his Vietnam memoir
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE
Series: Real Good Words
Caption: Muddy Jungle Rivers - Wendell Affield
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 06, 2012
  • Length: 14:07
  • Purchases: 1
The Greatest Sports Writing
From: Richard Stull
Series: Doc Stull's Sports Today and in the Day
Caption: Doc Stull, Credit: Danielle DeMartini
Homer's 23rd chapter in the 2800-year-old "Iliad" has no rival.

  • Added: Jul 02, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
A Conversation with Brenda Wineapple
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works Podcast
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Literary biographer Brenda Wineapple discusses her book, White Heat: The Friendship of Emily Dickinson and Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  • Added: Dec 02, 2011
  • Length: 28:55
Literary Brooklyn
From: Shannon Geis
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2011
  • Length: 08:00
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
From: This Land Press
Series: The Short So Long
Caption: Photo courtesy Jim Chlebda
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her family, left Oklahoma for Califor...

Bought by KOSU and Public Radio Remix


  • Added: Oct 17, 2011
  • Length: 04:07
  • Purchases: 2
Nick Tosches discusses "Save the Last Dance for Satan"
From: Steven Nester
Series: Poets of the Tabloid Murder
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The author of seventeen books, Nick Tosches lives in New York City.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2011
  • Length: 30:45
Bound Like Grass: A Memoir from the Western High Plains, by Ruth McLaughlin
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During this program, Ruth McLaughlin talks with The Write Question producer Chérie Newman about growing up near Culbertson, Montana, and the legacy...

Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
On Walden
From: Katie Hargrave
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When will I get over my obsession with Walden Pond? As a 20something interested in connecting to nature, is Thoreau the best example?

  • Added: Mar 23, 2011
  • Length: 10:18
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward P. Jones
From: New Letters on the Air
Series: New Letters on the Air
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Edward P. Jones, winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for THE KNOWN WORLD, writes about the lives of African-Americans in his native Washington DC in ...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN, WPSU-FM, WDCV, and CKMO


  • Added: Mar 02, 2007
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 4
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.

Bought by North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA, WEKU, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Jul 27, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:05
  • Purchases: 6
Poetry Happens
From: Paul McDonald
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Poetry is just as combustible and wild an art form as it always has been.

Bought by WEKU


  • Added: Apr 07, 2006
  • Length: 02:04
  • Purchases: 1
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.

Bought by KWIT, North Country Public Radio, Kansas Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA and more


  • Added: Apr 04, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:04
  • Purchases: 9
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-...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, KRUA, WEKU and more


  • 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...

Bought by North Country Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, KRUA, WEKU, KXOT Public Radio and more


  • Added: Mar 09, 2006
  • Length: 01:04:01
  • Purchases: 8
Paternalism
From: Talking History
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Interview with David Leverenz on the transformation of the image of the role and image of the father. Raymond Geselbracht comments on the relations...

  • Added: Mar 06, 2005
  • Length: 29:00