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A Glimpse Of Listeners' #NPRpoetry — From The Punny To The Profound

5:06pm May 01, 2016

It was a simple idea: Would you, our listeners, tweet us poems for National Poetry Month? Your response contained multitudes — haiku, lyrics, even one 8-year-old's ode to her dad's bald spot.

Eric Bana and Ricky Gervais play an unethical radio journalist and his engineer in Special Correspondents.

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Ricky Gervais On Controversial Jokes, Celebrities And 'Special Correspondents'

11:25am May 01, 2016

by NPR Staff

"I didn't go out there to ruin everyone's day or undermine the moral fabric of America. I was making jokes." Gervais talked with NPR's Rachel Martin about his new movie and how he approaches humor.

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Most of the poets who submitted to the Words Unlocked contest are between the ages of 14 to 18.

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Poetry Behind Bars: The Lines That Save Lives — Sometimes Literally

11:22am May 01, 2016

by Colin Dwyer

Words Unlocked, a poetry contest for juveniles in corrections, has drawn more than 1,000 entries. Its judge, Jimmy Santiago Baca, says it was a poetry book that helped him survive his own prison term.

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Forget Talent, Success Comes From 'Grit'

10:04am May 01, 2016

Rachel Martin talks with Angela Duckworth, the psychologist who brought the idea of "grit" as a marker of success into the American mainstream. Her book posits that achievement is about persistence.

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Camille Perri Talks Breaking The Rules To Get Ahead In Debut Novel, 'The Assistants'

10:04am May 01, 2016

When the assistant at a multinational corporation skims a tiny fraction of the company's billions, it sets off a chain of unexpected events. Camille Perri tells Rachel Martin about her new novel.

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No Pink, But Plenty of Red, In Hack-N-Slash 'Fairyland'

10:00am May 01, 2016

by Etelka Lehoczky

Skottie Young's comic may horrify (or delight) the parents of princess-obsessed kids. It's the story of a not-so-little girl who's gone a little violent after 27 years trapped in a sparkly fairyland.

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The Mathematics Of Magic And Loss In 'Square Root Of Summer'

7:00am May 01, 2016

by Caitlyn Paxson

Teenaged math whiz Gottie knows a little too much about subtraction; her fractured family is spinning apart sfter the death of her beloved grandfather — and that's before the time wormholes appear.

'Urban Rez' Explores What It Means To Be Native American

5:08pm April 30, 2016

by Betto Arcos

A new play created by Los Angeles' Cornerstone Theater tells the story of Los Angeles' Native American population and its search for identity in a big city.

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Not My Job: Journalist Lesley Stahl Gets Quizzed On 'Star Trek'

12:19pm April 30, 2016

This year is the 50th anniversary of the original Star Trek. To mark the occasion, we've invited Stahl to answer three questions about the show.

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Weeping For All That Is Lost: A Harsh Migration Out Of India

10:00am April 30, 2016

by Nishant Dahiya

Sunjeev Sahota's new novel follows three men who journey from India to England, looking for a better life. But NPR's Nishant Dahiya says that life turns out to be a complex, and often dangerous one.