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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...
Bought by WUIS
- Added: Apr 25, 2013
- Length: 59:03
- Purchases: 1
Publishing women talk tech, sexism and the future.
- Added: Mar 18, 2013
- Length: 43:51
This month's Save America's Treasures recording, features the late, great poet Adrienne Rich, known for her perfectly crafted, award winning poems....
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Mar 06, 2013
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
Writer Leonard Pitts Jr. talks about race, family, and the process of writing his syndicated column which won him a Pulitzer Prize in 2004. Pitts a...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Nov 20, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
As part of the 10th anniversary of one of CBC's premier current affairs programs, The Current, an interview from 2006 with the author Kurt Vonnegut...
- Added: Nov 01, 2012
- Length: 22:59
Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...
- Added: Oct 18, 2012
- Length: 02:03
On this episode of Wordy Birds we interview author and political activist David George Ball about his book, A Marked Heart, and the historic day he...
- Added: Jul 17, 2012
- Length: 27:30
Songwriters Moe Provencher and Aimee Zoe of MoZo discuss their song inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and...
Bought by Public Radio Remix
- Added: Feb 25, 2012
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Songwriter Levi Fuller discusses his approach to writing songs inspired by Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States. Written and perf...
- Added: Jan 03, 2012
- Length: 05:00
Roland Emmerich talks art, politics, and why we need a new word for conspiracy.
- Added: Oct 26, 2011
- Length: 13:16
A radio program featuring author Julia Alvarez along with Neko Case, Edwidge Danticat, and Junot Diaz, among others.
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:55
Poet Kevin Young talks about his book, Ardency: A Chronicle of the Amistad Rebels.
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 23:45
Isabel Wilkerson talks about her book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration, focusing on the transfer of Southern ...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:33
Author of two memoirs about her life in Iran, Reading Lolita in Tehran and Things I've Been Silent About, Azar Nafisi talks about her books, her li...
- Added: Aug 05, 2011
- Length: 25:05
How do war stories work, and where do we find them? Our guests this week are mapping out terrains of conflict and confusion in our lifetimes, from ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Apr 15, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
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...
Bought by KWMR-FM, KUNM, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Feb 18, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Cartoonist and author Ted Rall talks about his book, THE ANTI-AMERICAN MANIFESTO. And poet Martin Espada reads a poem about the nonviolent people’s...
- Added: Feb 16, 2011
- Length: 58:57
Open Source is in New Delhi with two stars of the writing class. Namita Gokhale is a novelist, publisher, and sparkplug of the Indian literary boom...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN and New Hampshire Public Radio
- Added: Jan 13, 2011
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
This hour brings politics with Chris Hedges and poetry with Damion Searls. Chris Hedges' new book recounts The Death of the Liberal Class. And the ...
Bought by Moab Public Radio, WCAI / WNAN, and KXOT Public Radio
- Added: Dec 23, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 3
Past is prologue with Ian Morris and Dennis Lehane. Dennis Lehane is the author of "Mystic River," "Gone Baby Gone," "Shutter Island," and most rec...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN
- Added: Dec 09, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
We're talking politics and poetry with Noam Chomsky and C.D. Wright. Noam Chomsky is on an upbeat about American views on war and imperialism, and ...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN and Wyoming Public Radio
- Added: Nov 04, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 2
Election day is closing in, and Jill Lepore has a hip historian's take on the question: What Would the Founding Fathers Do? Jill Lepore says there'...
- Added: Oct 28, 2010
- Length: 58:59
Financial and then existential angles on the dizziness we're feeling. First, Robert Reich, the Democratic policy man, says we're confused about the...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 30, 2010
- Length: 58:59
- Purchases: 1
Travel writer Maria Finn talks about her memoir, HOLD ME TIGHT & TANGO ME HOME, and shares her approach to writing creative non-fiction.
- Added: May 26, 2010
- Length: 29:00
We arrived in Iraq carelessly; we should leave carefully. Former Congressman Lee Hamilton discusses America's goal in Iraq and how it might achieve...
Bought by WBFO
- Added: May 21, 2009
- Length: 02:04
- Purchases: 1
