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New Letters on the Air is the internationally distributed, award-winning public radio companion to New Letters magazine featuring writers in their own words.

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Now #Streaming: For #MemorialDay2023 we're looking back on this program with novelist @Wsterrell. In this classic show, he talks about his third novel, The Good Lieutenant, that offers an eye-opening look at women in the military. Listen on our @prx page @ https://t.co/PriHNUJZq2

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Now #Streaming: We celebrate @POETSorg's Poem in Your Pocket Day with this anthology program, The Cruelest Month. Billy Collins, Charles Simic, Kay Ryan, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rita Dove, Donald Hall and more use poetry to reflect on love. Listen on @prx at: https://t.co/jssvagH30N

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Now #Streaming: We continue #NationalPoetryMonth with a two part interview featuring poet Ellen Bass. She talks about her early poetic mentors and reads from her collections The Human Line and Like a Beggar. Listen to both shows on our PRX page at: https://t.co/Tf1Gv9kBb9

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Now #Streaming: For #NationalPoetryMonth we feature 2shows w/ U.S. Poet Laureate @adalimon. In a classic interview she discusses her early work & the influence of the late Philip Levine. In a later reading @RockhurstU she shares award winning poems Listen@ https://t.co/A0iZNjd3a7

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Now #Streaming: For #WomensHistoryMonth2023 we feature a special program about four important feminist poets who led the the next generations into the 21st century: Carolyn Kizer, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich & Audre Lorde. Listen on our @prx page at: https://t.co/QsS2OHeNn2

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Now #Streaming: We continue #blackhistorymonth2023 with the late Al Young. The two-time American Book Award winner and former California Poet Laureate reads from his book Something About the Blues: An Unlikely Collection of Poetry. Listen on our @PRX page@ https://t.co/MCxpAX8vJd

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Now #Streaming: We celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth with a classic interview featuring Tony Grooms discussing his 2001 novel, Bombingham, a story intertwining Civil Rights era Birmingham with war-torn Vietnam. Listen to the full show on our @prx page at: https://t.co/JXGTVdzYDi

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Now #Streaming: @TheBoxGalleryKC, poets Wyatt Townley, H.C. Palmer, Brian Daldorph, Melinda Hemmelgarn &Catherine Anderson read poems inspired by visual art. Listen@ https://t.co/ItIT1nA9LA A new ekphrasis exhibit opens at The Box Gallery today. More info@ https://t.co/B8m4DuNJdv

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Now #Streaming: We return to this 2018 interview w/ the late Russell Banks. He talks with former student and now fellow novelist, @Wsterrell, about his memoir, Voyager: Travel Writings. He discusses his travels and even mountain climbing at age 78. Listen@ https://t.co/PtHvTLsRhj

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Now #Streaming: Pulitzer Prize winners Tony Kushner, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, as well as Sherman Alexie, Naomi Shihab Nye, & the late August Wilson share some of their initial inspirations for writing in this anthology called "In the Beginning." Listen@ https://t.co/qU8iwTgMCj

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Now #Streaming: A holiday favorite, this short story is read by the late author Grace Paley. The Loudest Voice is an amusing tale about a little Jewish girl, chosen to play the lead in her school's Christmas pageant, and her family's reactions. Listen at: https://t.co/OLaEZ6vl2c

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Now #Streaming: George Saunders reads from his Story Prize-winning collection, Tenth of December & discusses his path to becoming a writer, how his family and career have influenced his work, & the desire he has to connect with and engage readers. Listen@ https://t.co/AGkodU5hki

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Now #Streaming: The late Michelle Boisseau reveals how aging, Greek myths, art & family losses inspired her fifth book of poetry, Among the Gorgons. Listen on our @prx page at: https://t.co/MUPeqZ7wYG

Enter @BearReview's Michelle Boisseau poetry contest@ https://t.co/l4MFUfHLwP

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Now #Streaming: In this 2015 interview former journalist &Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks reads from her book about King David, The Secret Chord, &reveals the inspiration for her 2022 bestseller Horse. Hear the full show on our @prx page: https://t.co/y5Xp2PyOS5

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Now #Streaming: Former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, whose new poetry is published in the fall 2022 issue of @new_letters, discusses memory and its role in creating the personal poetry for which he's known. Listen to the full show on our @prx page at: https://t.co/no35vw22FH

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Now #Streaming: In this classic interview, David Baker, who is currently on tour with his 2022 book Whale Fall, discusses his poetry and reads work that now appears in his other recent book, Swift: New & Selected Poems. Listen on our @prx page at: https://t.co/y0c2AadPCM

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Now #Streaming: For #HispanicHeritageMonth we revisit this show w/ Rigoberto Gonzalez. He discusses his work across poetry, fiction, memoir & criticism and reveals his many influences, including family, other writers& his role as a literary critic. Listen@ https://t.co/20Zn4xiJS8

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Now #Streaming: Every September since 1982, the @ALALibrary has celebrated the freedom to read during Banned Books Week. One often challenged book is Lois Lowry's @newberybooks winner, The Giver. Hear the full show with this author of 40+ books on @prx: https://t.co/oM2nnbUxAf

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Now #Streaming: The rigors &joys of work are celebrated in this anthology program entitled Working Class Poets. B.H. Fairchild, Susan Gubernat, Robert Stewart & Dorianne Laux read from their work& discuss how their former jobs inform their writing. Listen@ https://t.co/hTrAnS18Rs

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Now #Streaming: Fiction writer Ron Tanner, author of the 2022 short story collection Far West, talks about his memoir, From Animal House to Our House and also reads from his collection of award-winning short stories, A Bed of Nails from @BkMkPress. Listen@ https://t.co/xUJhYU1DcO