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Poet Mark Doty discusses his work, including FIRE TO FIRE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, winner of the 2008 National Book Award, and his 2013 book-length...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Apr 10, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Tracy Johnson and her mother in-law, Sandra Johnson, talk about the death of their wife and daughter, Army Staff Sergeant Donna Johnson.
- Added: Mar 15, 2013
- Length: 02:59
Breanne Marie is a relatively new country western musician who is rapidly becoming visible, along with her band The Front Porch Sinners, in Duluth...
- Added: Mar 08, 2013
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 2
In the nether regions of New Jersey is a summer camp that uses pianos and shovels to break social barriers...they've been at it since the 1960s.
A...
- Added: Feb 08, 2013
- Length: 09:16
Minnesota author Melanie Hoffert's new book deals with the persistent ties one raised in a rural community may feel years later, even after their l...
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- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 15:11
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Danielle Sosin's novel, "The Long Shining Waters," tells three stories of three women living around the shores of Lake Superior in three distinct t...
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- Added: Jan 28, 2013
- Length: 17:32
- Purchases: 1
Cathy Byrd meets Puerto Rican-born artist Papo Colo, co-founder of Exit Art, to talk about the global significance of the NYC nonprofit contemporar...
- Added: Dec 17, 2012
- Length: 12:44
As part of a series marking Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the First World War, reporter, Alison Turner, asked expat actors living in...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 06:49
Joel Healy tells his daughter, Kelli Healy Salzar, about participating in Operation Plumbbob, one of the largest nuclear tests conducted by the U.S...
- Added: Oct 16, 2012
- Length: 02:37
For the second week of March (3/7): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at one of the states most gifted songwriters who went ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
In honor of the 5th Anniversary of the 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, Minnesota poet Todd Boss has composed 35 poems consisting of 35 words pe...
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 18:39
- Purchases: 2
This week, in honor of Big Walter Smith, we focus on the blues in Minnesota. The feature segment is an intimate interview recorded in 2010 in which...
Bought by KOJB 90.1 FM The eagle, WTIP, and KSRQ
- Added: Aug 01, 2012
- Length: 59:20
- Purchases: 3
Band by distance… or banned by distance? A radio portrait for one of the two members of a band that is banned by distance, The Pencils!
- Added: May 06, 2012
- Length: 07:09
Former radio personality and musician OCDJ decided to give up his home, his possessions and all contact with loved ones for the pursuit of one thing.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Unknown
- Length: 11:33
- Purchases: 1
Phil Donney talks with his aunt Abby Leibman about raising Phil and his sister, Laura, after their mother was murdered.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Mar 19, 2012
- Length: 02:11
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Dennis Apple and his wife, Buelah, remember their son Denny, who died when he was a teenager.
Bought by KUOW
- Added: Feb 06, 2012
- Length: 02:38
- Purchases: 1
Realgoodwords is our weekly book program; a place for those who read, write and appreciate the written word.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 16, 2011
- Length: 12:20
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88-year-old Frank Curre remembers serving on the U.S.S. Tennessee during the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941.
Bought by WTIP
- Added: Nov 18, 2011
- Length: 02:23
- Purchases: 1
Ed Schrader created his own radio drama. The stories were about a real family, a family he knew. And they had absolutely no idea he was doing it.
Bought by Public Radio Remix and KUT
- Added: Jul 22, 2011
- Length: 07:28
- Purchases: 2
"CHEE CHEE & PEPPY" was a pre-teen / teenage R&B act of the early 1970's. They were a cross between MARVIN GAYE & TAMMI TERRELL and PEACHES and HER...
- Added: Mar 28, 2011
- Length: 56:04
John Romanowich, a recovery worker, remembers his first day at Ground Zero after September 11, 2001.
- Added: Sep 16, 2010
- Length: 02:04
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A forgotten word makes a comeback in the book ACEDIA & ME, by poet and essayist Kathleen Norris. She examines the origin of acedia--a kind of emot...
- Added: Jul 07, 2010
- Length: 29:00
Robert Dana, former poet laureate of Iowa, died in Feb., 2010. Interviewed on his last birthday, Dana read poems from his 2008 book, THE OTHER, an...
- Added: Apr 21, 2010
- Length: 33:50
When he was a teenaged boy scout, Bill Johnson met a girl from Alaska on a westbound train. He only saw her once more. But nearly two decades later...
- Added: Jan 19, 2010
- Length: 01:00:20
Nicholas Petron (PEA-tron) remembers his grandfather, who came to the U.S. from Italy as a young man.
Bought by KFOK-LP, KUOW, and Remix Radio
- Added: Jan 12, 2010
- Length: 02:33
- Purchases: 3
