Dennis Conrow

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  • Assistant Producer
  • Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent

Recent Pieces from Dennis Conrow

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The Cruelest Month: Ten Poets Reflect on Love (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with a nod to what Missouri-born poet T.S. Eliot called THE CRUELEST MONTH. Listen to ten poets, reflecting on love in all its forms, ...
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Chanukah Tales (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

Writer Marilyn Kallet reads from her book, ONE FOR EACH NIGHT: CHANUKAH TALES AND RECIPES, a collection of eight food inspired tales that explain traditional Chanukah ...
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Poet Martha Serpas on the disappearing Louisiana Gulf Coastline (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

In today's classic NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR, we revisit Gulf Coast poet, Martha Serpas, whose 2020 book, DOUBLE EFFECT, won the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award. Growing up in ...
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Sandra Cisneros, Latina author of the classic "The House on Mango Street" (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

NEW LETTERS ON THE AIR continues National Hispanic Heritage Month with a look back at Latina author Sandra Cisneros, who received the National Medal of Arts Award in 2016 ...
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"The Glass Castle" author Jeannette Walls (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

Former celebrity journalist Jeannette Walls discusses her hardscrabble childhood which she depicted in her memoir THE GLASS CASTLE, now an August 2017 film, as well as her ...
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Father/Daughter Poets, Willis and Aliki Barnstone (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

Father and daughter poets Willis and Aliki Barnstone share their work, talk about how they influence each other, and read from poems old and new.
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Novelist Arthur Phillips discusses the influence of Shakespeare (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

Four hundred years after the death of William Shakespeare and during the Folger Library's year long nationwide tour of The Bard's first folio in 2016, we revisit this program ...
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"The Symphony," an African-American poetry collective (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

The Symphony is a group of African-American poets originally comprised of John Murillo, R. Reginald Dwayne Betts, Randall Horton, and Marcus Jackson. The four bonded over ...
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Chilean-American author Marjorie Agosin (30:30)
From: New Letters on the Air

The author of the 2015 International Latino Book Award-winning young adult novel, I LIVED ON BUTTERFLY HILL, Marjorie Agosín has always felt outside her culture. Born ...
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African-American Poet Angela Jackson (29:00)
From: New Letters on the Air

In this public reading entitled "Love Letters to Generations," Angela Jackson shares some of her work, including a reading from her first novel, the American Book Award ...