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Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her
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JD McPherson is a singer and guitarist with a retro sound. He grew up listening to punk music and studied video
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An ode to the superstore and its people. This story was produced in partnership with The Texas Observer.
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Is the octopus a genius? A shapeshifter? An entreè?
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John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. He’s been
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Woody Guthrie was born in Okemah, Oklahoma, on July 14th, 1912. To celebrate his one-hundred-second birthday, we're
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Elliott Heyne returned from war with permanent hearing
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For Earth Day, we bring you a portrait of Three Springs Farm, an organic vegetable farm in Oaks, Oklahoma. Emily
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Three friends confront their meat-eating ways. They recount the day they gutted, skinned and ate the first animal
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We stopped by the one bar in a one-bar-town and met John Hood. John used to be addicted to gambling. Now he has
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Jeff Martin, This Land's fiction editor, tells us about the time he met Bob Dylan behind Cain's Ballroom.
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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and torture.
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Author Richard Higgs was a long haul trucker for a year and a half. Here, he shares the perils and isolation of the
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I don’t remember her name. I do remember that I interrupted her quiet. She was a plump, youngish woman, sitting in
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Unemployed, broke, and hungry, radio DJ Larry Hoefling
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THE SOUND OF OUR LAND: The Perfect Storm by thislandpress The 1930's felt like the end of the world in western
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For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about trees." He's traveled all over the world photographing
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. For photographer Gaylord Herron, there's "something about
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Sterlin Harjo is the director and producer of a new documentary called "This May Be the Last Time." The film tells the
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Catherine Margaret "Skilly" Forsman had a beautiful body. She earned it dancing, which she began shortly after popping
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Little Joe Mclerran is a old-fashioned bluesman. He's only 30, but he dresses like someone in a black-and-white movie:
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Louise Red Corn never wanted to own a newspaper. She liked the reporting end of journalism. But after moving to Osage
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Shantelle Jennings was a child when photographer Larry Clark captured iconic images of her father, Billy Mann, toting
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Richard Higgs and Dennis Bires trek out to the Osage
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Former inmates and activist Mary McAnally read "Stringtown Prison Blues" and discuss their experiences with the penal
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Author Steve Almond reads his short story about Oklahoma, "Jeff Keith, Lead Singer of Tesla, Considers
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This past July was the hottest month ever on record for Oklahoma, or any other state for that matter. Farmers and
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One of This Land Radio's best podcasts of 2013. While in Tulsa for the opening of the Woody Guthrie Center,
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Steve Smith calls himself the clown sandwich between two ministers. Both his father and his son preach. Early in life,
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Tim Lannom loved big houses and historic houses. He owned multiple properties around Tulsa and spent his time restoring
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. J.J. Cale wrote hits for Eric Clapton and Waylon
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John Brainard remembers his brother Joe, a Tulsa-born artist who befriended Frank O' Hara, Andy Warhol, John Ashbery,
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Sister Helen Prejean, of "Dead Man Walking" fame, discusses her spiritual awakening and the problems she has with how
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Listen to Senator David Holt, representative of the 30th District of Oklahoma, read Shakespeare's Sonnet 46 at the 2012
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Scott Raffe is known around the world for his fine art photographs of Circus Flora and Zoppe, an Italian Family
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Broadway star and Sand Springs native Sam Harris comes to terms with his four-year-old's messes, boo-boos, monster
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When Ron Padgett heard the poetry to the people segment on his poem "Driveway," he told This Land Press that,
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Randy Roberts Potts is known as the gay grandson of the late televangelist and university founder Oral Roberts. In
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Jack Seehafer spent almost a decade as a professional cyclist before becoming a coach for Team Type
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Jack Seehafer grew up bike racing in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He moved to Colorado to coach for Team Type 1. Here, Jack shares
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Early in life, Steve Smith started working as a chaplain in a children’s hospital. But he quickly began transforming
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People around Oklahoma read a poem by Ken Hada. Read more poetry. MusicAutumn Sunset by Jason
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Mary McAnally once led a poetry workshop for inmates at Stringtown Prison in Stringtown, Oklahoma. Here, she discusses
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What do you call someone who breaks the law by crossing the border into the United States? An illegal? An alien?
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Oklahoma is considered a conservative state these days. But in the early 1900's, Oklahoma had an active leftist
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The Tulsa Police Department has been using pepper spray since the '90s, but the device made headlines earlier this
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Paula Poundstone has been criss-crossing the country performing as a stand-up comic since she was in her late teens. As
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You might say that Dr. Paul Vickery channels spirits. Besides his long career as a history professor at Oral Roberts
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Caldwell O’Keefe was part-owner of and bartender at Nine of Cups, a restaurant and bar on Tulsa’s Boston Avenue. In
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Hurricane Sаndу brоught tоgеthеr a unique соmbіnаtіоn оf wеаthеr thаt rеѕultеd in over 6 million
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When New York City author Ginger Strand passed through Tulsa, we sat her down and asked what she thought about our
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Federally licensed gun dealers are required to screen people before they can sell them a gun. If the person ends up
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Hand fishing, grabbling, or noodling is something that Gary Altizer knows plenty about. After all, he is a proud 4th
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Ginger Strand, contributing editor to This Land Press, discusses Oklahoma's comfort with engineering our environment.
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Matt O’Meilia was an aspiring musician and had a neighborhood paper route. Then, a rock star moved in next door: Leon
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Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center gave Oklahoma public schools a failing grade in instruction about
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As a long-time Tulsa attorney, Joseph L. Hull has spent much of his life negotiating deals. Two summers ago he found
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Micah Fitzerman-Blue is an up-and-coming Hollywood
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Tim Hernandez writes about the lives of Mexican immigrants in the United States. Here, he discusses climate change and
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Ruth Cobb, a midwife who has been practicing in Oklahoma for more than 35 years, shares stories of her journey to
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Ruth Cobb, a midwife who has been practicing in Oklahoma for more than 35 years, shares stories of her journey to
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A little over a year ago, three friends confronted their meat-eating ways by participating in a field dressing class
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A senior citizen finds new love at the Poteau jamboree, an old-time country, bluegrass, and gospel sing-a-long. Hear
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Janis Cramer grew up listening to her father's stories
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For death investigator Stacy Williams, bloated corpses and overdose victims are a daily occurrence. It takes a
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. For ten years Hugh Foley attended services at Hutche
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Kate Kline’s eating habits are evolving - from conventional family dinners in her 1950's Tulsa childhood, to fancy
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In the 1960s, Kate Kline abandoned normal food and an oppressive marriage for long hair and a vegetarian
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Singer-songwriter John Moreland talks about panic attacks, getting upstaged by midget wrestling, and opening for Jason
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Producer Abby Wendle sits down with Grammy-nominated musician John Fullbright to discuss God and Oklahoma. This short
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Joanne Hearst-Castro, the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, passed away in late 2011. Hearst-Castro was a
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Not a poem about jazz. A poem that is jazz. Deborah J. Hunter's "Jazz on a Diamond-Needle Hi-Fi" performed live in
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Ron Padgett is a poet, translator, and memoirist from Tulsa. He left for New York in 1960 to find inspiration from
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Kelly Kurt Brown used to cover Oklahoma's death chamber for the Associated Press. Over the course of a few years, she
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mary McAnally organized the only Freedom Bus from
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Ian Frazier talks with us about his book Travels in Siberia. He discusses the struggle to capture the essence of a
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Bishop Carlton Pearson once led one of the largest megachurches in the country. But when he stopped preaching about
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Rabyne Rogue, a woman converting to Judaism, gets to know the Jewish community through Challah bread baking classes
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Terry Turner, the Intelligence Analyst Supervisor with the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, discusses the
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Roberta Roberts Potts, the daughter of the late televangelist and university founder, Oral Roberts, recently published
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Jon Mooneyham hosts a post-punk radio show and was once a
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Rufus Newsome grew up poor and hungry in Sunflower County, Mississippi. His family couldn't afford food from the
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Dr. Lewis Ziska is a plant ecologist at the United States Department of Agriculture. Ziska's work examines the effects
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Poet John Brehm dives beneath the chit-chat and finds his soul in the river. Read more poems. Music Cattail
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Once a week, community members gather in the Blue Jackalope grocery store and coffee shop for blues-and-barbecue
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Coleslaw isn't what most people would call a delicacy - but it was treated that way in Wes Alexander's family. His
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An Okie travels to the African mountains to see Dian Fossey's gorillas, but forgets to turn off her
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Gordy Ryan has been passing through Tulsa since the mid-80's, when one of TU's African student groups invited him to
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Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Judge Kurt Glassco tells the story of his daughter Abby,
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Writer Joshua Kline takes us into the peculiar world of the Gluedobbers, a gun and model plane club in East
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Basses come in varying types including the striped bass, the large mouth bass, the small mouth bass, and the spotted
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Two musicians with Oklahoma connections, pedal steel guitarist Speedy West and drummer David Teegarden, each tell us a
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The band SHEL is made up of four sisters from Fort Collins, Colorado. Sarah, Hannah, Eva and Liza Holbrook. They
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Commercial pig farms have a reputation for their smell, but Stephen Green was more troubled by the sound of all those
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Growing up in Tulsa in the 1970's was torturous for Dan Piraro. He felt surrounded by cowboys and Christians. Fancying
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"Cleaning Graves in Calvert" recounts a burial ritual in a small town in Texas. The poem prompts one reader to recall
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Kris Gosney and her husband were like most of their neighbors in northwestern Oklahoma: conventional farmers relying
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When Jeff Emerson started buying cattle in the early 1990's he was paying as much as $5,000 dollars a head when other
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We visit a group of campers who read "Building a Frog," an evocative poem by John Wooley. With the sounds of the
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In his prime, Dana Livingston's father was an Oklahoma superhero. He lettered in four sports, drilled oil wells, and
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