Joe Frank is an American radio personality, known best for his engaging, often philosophical, monologues and radio dramas. Frank started his career at WBAI in New York, and also served as a co-anchor for the weekend edition of National Public Radio's All Things Considered. In 1986, Frank moved to Santa Monica, California to work at KCRW, where he wrote, produced and performed in a weekly hour-long radio program, "Joe Frank: Work In Progress." Frank's radio programs are at times dark and frequently ironic, humorous and absurd. Adding to the atmosphere of Frank's monologues are loops of music over vocal drones. A monologue, pronounced monolog, is a speech made by one person speaking his or her thoughts aloud or directly addressing a reader, audience, or character. ... WBAI, a part of the Pacifica Radio Network, is a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, broadcasting at 99. ... NY redirects here. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... All Things Considered (ATC), is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... KCRW (89. ...

While at KCRW, Frank received several awards including a Peabody Award and two Corporation for Public Broadcasting Awards, one for his acclaimed three-part series "Rent-a-Family." In 2003, Joe Frank was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Frank was also a Guggenheim Fellow. The George Foster Peabody Awards, more commonly referred to as the Peabody Awards, are annual international awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting. ... The Corporation for Public Broadcasting logo, used from 1969 to 2002. ... The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is a celebration of the best feature and documentary audio work heard worldwide on the radio and the Internet. ... Guggenheim Fellowships are awarded annually by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts. ...

Joe Frank continued to work at KCRW until 2002, and his work evolved as evidenced by the diverse series he produced starting with Work in Progress, then In The Dark, followed by Somewhere Out There, and finally The Other Side. For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

On the series "The Other Side" the Buddhist lecturer Jack Kornfield was featured. A replica of an ancient statue found among the ruins of a temple at Sarnath Buddhism is a philosophy based on the teachings of the Buddha, Siddhārtha Gautama, a prince of the Shakyas, whose lifetime is traditionally given as 566 to 486 BCE. It had subsequently been accepted by... Jack Kornfield was trained as a Buddhist monk in Thailand, Burma and India and has taught meditation worldwide since 1974. ...

His body of work (over 230 hours) continues to be aired on many NPR stations in the United States and on XM Satellite Radio. The entire archives, along with Joe Frank film shorts and other extras, are available by subscription to his web site. NPR logo For other meanings of NPR see NPR (disambiguation) National Public Radio (NPR) is a private, not-for-profit corporation that sells programming to member radio stations; together they are a loosely organized public radio network in the United States. ... “XM” redirects here. ...

Currently, Frank is writing new work for the stage and his web site. Free shows and stories are podcast monthly.

Frank is an alumnus of Hofstra University in New York. He also studied at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Hofstra University is a private institution of higher learning located in Hempstead, Long Island, New York (USA) founded in 1935 on the basis of the estate of wealthy lumber magnate William Hofstra and widow Kate Williams Hofstra. ... NY redirects here. ... The Program in Creative Writing, more commonly known as the Iowa Writers Workshop, at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa is a prestigious college and graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. ...

Frank taught English literature at the Dalton School in Manhattan. The Dalton School, originally called the Childrens University School, is a private college-preparatory school in New York City. ...

External links

• The Official Joe Frank Web Site
• WFMU Joe Frank FAQs
• A Joe Frank Wiki
• Joe Frank at the Internet Movie Database