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Caption: Bill Shanabruch, Credit: Charles McGuigan
As staggeringly complex as the environmental catastrophe is, by tackling one small space at a time, we might be able to bring back entire ecosystem...

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 24:26
Caption: ..And somewhere a Bird Who Is Bound he'll be heard is giving his lawyer a call,,,,.., Credit: Susan Cook
In The Department of Poetic Justice i(with lyrics for The Great American Wrongbook ) , remembering another moment of ex, um disclosure!

  • Added: Apr 16, 2024
  • Length: 02:53
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The very word vacation has its roots in vacare or to be unoccupied. But in reality vacations are anything but unoccupied. Sandip recounts the woes ...

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
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Patients are now mostly protected from surprise bills, but doctors and insurers are still fighting about the prices.

  • Added: Apr 15, 2024
  • Length: 17:20
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A professor of Art at Syracuse University specializing in printmaking now aware of how toxic some art materials are and how damaging the mining and...

  • Added: Apr 14, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
Caption: Paula Apsell, 4/10/24
Paula Apsell talks uncovering history, creating unity, and depicting Jews saving Jews.

  • Added: Apr 12, 2024
  • Length: 25:10
Caption: Steven Price served in the Army in the Panama Canal Zone. He says he was exposed to Agent Orange, DDT, and other toxins. He later developed chronic B-cell leukemia., Credit: Courtesy Steven Price
People who served in the Canal Zone were left out of a law that made it easier to get care and benefits from the Department of Veterans Affairs. 

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  • Added: Apr 08, 2024
  • Length: 03:45
  • Purchases: 2
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Host Diana Korte speaks with Don Winslow, bestselling author of CITY IN RUINS, the last book in a trilogy featuring crime boss Danny Ryan. The less...

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 10:16

  • Added: Apr 04, 2024
  • Length: 59:00
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Caption: Marine Corps recruits get sized during their first uniform fitting at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 11, 2023., Credit: Jacob Hutchinson / U.S. Marine Corps
The Marine Corps says the private companies that make military uniforms fell behind because of inflation and COVID-related labor shortages.

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  • Added: Apr 03, 2024
  • Length: 03:57
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Caption: An example of the classic 'butter chicken', Credit: Photo by Joe mon bkk, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
A new food fight has erupted in India. And it’s about one of the most famous dishes to come out of India, one that every other Indian restaurant in...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2024
  • Length: 06:00
Caption: Nico Cathcart working on a mural on Lakeside Avenue, Credit: Charles McGuigan
It’s interesting how every great work of music, literature, visual art is immune to the predilections of time and space. Whether they were crafted ...

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 27:38
Caption: Ruth Bader Ginsburg         March 15, 1933 - September 18, 2020, Credit: Susan Cook
Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died at age 87. " When the spark had finally stopped, ending finally, the luscious waterfall, (the opulent deceit, the ple...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: More poems in the tradition: Breathng: American Sonnets, Credit: Susan Cook
On her birthday, a Sonnet Sequence "The Rage of the World" .

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:24
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Caption: The falcon may be the new symbol for our National Character..., Credit: Susan Cook
The conviction of the falcon, not the eagle, is the model for Democracies to call upon to Intervene in Ukraine. "An American Sonnet for the Falcon."

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:15
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets, Credit: Poems by Susan Cook
On the anniversary of September 11, In Memoriam , "The Fall" (submitted 9/16/2013 in "Blue: American Sonnets" to the Beatrice Hawley (now Alice Ja...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:03
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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Sonnet for Wink, Wink -Susan Cook- There are places here on earth where a wink at the wro...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :52
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Caption: "We are watching the edge of the world, held by a vision, the persistence of breath...", Credit: Susan Cook
"When Loss and Innocence", "What Courage Wears to Bed", "The Meaning of Life". Poems from the author of "Breathing: American Sonnets"

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 03:12
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets (Bookshop.org), Credit: Susan Cook
The 2017 Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded to those who offered proof of the existence of Primordial Gravity Waves. Einstein theorized they were ...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:14
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Caption: Breathing: American Sonnets , Credit: Susan Cook
Stephen Hawking has died who brought us all to imagine what black holes are and to recognize ourselves in them and him.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 02:03
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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Upon the passing of Dr Peter Higgs, a Sonnet to explain how the Higgs boson comes into our lives.

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :49
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Caption: 'shipwrecked, lost everything, all's well...", Credit: Edgar Cook
Poems are solace in times of not knowing. Today, a Sonnet for What Will Be Well. "There are events that narrowly avoid crossing our paths, eve...

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  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: 01:01
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Caption: "Breathing: American Sonnets", Credit: Susan Cook
Poetry makes everything accessible, even the Special Theory of Relativity.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2024
  • Length: :51
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Rona Maynard found happiness at 65—a story she tells in her new memoir Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2024
  • Length: 28:00
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Will Putin use the Moscow theatre attack to further tighten his grip? What if a pro-Western candidate wins Slovakia's presidential election... And ...

  • Added: Mar 28, 2024
  • Length: 58:59