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Carolina ReadsPoems For Father’s DayIn this episode I share some well known poems written to fathers, present and absent alike. While reading these poems I was inspired to write my own. Let me know what you think… ***Forgiving my father by Lucille Clifton, Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden, My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke, Father from Asia by Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, and A Message on your Voicemail by Carolina Huggins ***
2024-06-1507 min
Health CheckWhy your brain cells can still grow from the age of 40Our expert guest tells you can be proactive before you even reach the age of 65. Synopsis: Every first and third Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you. This is also our 100th episode since the first ST podcast episode was published in mid-2018 featuring then-Health Minister Gan Kim Yong (link further below). Singapore has just launched an updated action plan for successful ageing to help Singaporeans live life to the fullest as they age. At the launch, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who helms the...
2023-02-0127 minThe Straits Times PodcastsWhy your brain cells can still grow from the age of 40Our expert guest tells you can be proactive before you even reach the age of 65. Synopsis: Every first and third Wednesday of the month, The Straits Times helps you make sense of health matters that affect you. This is also our 100th episode since the first ST podcast episode was published in mid-2018 featuring then-Health Minister Gan Kim Yong (link further below). Singapore has just launched an updated action plan for successful ageing to help Singaporeans live life to the fullest as they age. At the launch, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who helms the...
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Los Angeles Public Library's Poems on AirEpisode 8: Learning to Love AmericaLos Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson reads Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s “Learning to Love America”
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Rainstorm 🕉️ Brainstorm"Facing My Race (Listen Up Whitey)" - Stormfront"Facing My Race (Listen Up Whitey)" Rainstorm Brainstorm, Episode 7
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Text taken from retelling of a folktale often told and referenced by poet Sterling Brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterling_Allen_Brown) from an article on USPrisonCulture.com (https://www.usprisonculture.com/blog/2012/01/04/tales-of-injustice-black-storytelling-as-resistance/)
People in the cover art, counter-clockwise(--> --^), starting from bottom left corner:
Derrick Bell
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Cornel West
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Angela Davis
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Women's Media Center Live with Robin MorganWMC Live #122: Geneva Overholser, Sue Leonard. (Original Airdate 4/18/2015)Robin on Hillary’s critics. Guests for Poetry Month: Sue Leonard, editor of Persimmon Tree; Geneva Overholser on the Academy of American Poets; and Robin reads work by Stevie Smith, Leslie Silko, Isel Rivero, Suheir Hammad, Irena Klepfisz, Toi Derricote, and Shirley Geok–Lin Lim. www.PersimmonTree.org » www.Poets.org »
2015-04-1854 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – March 16, 2007As we honor women’s history and commemorate the anniversary of the war in Iraq, we take a look at women warriors throughout history. From the Greek goddess Athena to the classic comic book character Zena and from Joan of Arc to GI Jane, history, mythology, and contemporary literature and film offer many images of women warriors. Susan Crane takes us back to the Middle Ages with a look at Joan of Arc and the transcripts of her trial for heresy; Shirley Geok-lin Lim talks about Maxine Hong Kingston’s book The Woman Warrior; and Yvonne Tasker explores the port...
2007-03-1629 min
KPFA - Cover to Cover Open BookCover to Cover Open Book – March 16, 2007As we honor women’s history and commemorate the anniversary of the war in Iraq, we take a look at women warriors throughout history. From the Greek goddess Athena to the classic comic book character Zena and from Joan of Arc to GI Jane, history, mythology, and contemporary literature and film offer many images of women warriors. Susan Crane takes us back to the Middle Ages with a look at Joan of Arc and the transcripts of her trial for heresy; Shirley Geok-lin Lim talks about Maxine Hong Kingston’s book The Woman Warrior; and Yvonne Tasker explores the port...
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