PRX - Pieces for Format: Actuality

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Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
One man's trash is another man's treasure! A garbage truck driver in Columbia is enriching the lives of thousands of children by recovering thrown-...

  • Added: Apr 26, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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“Shakespeare with Veterans” is a counseling focused theatre troupe, run by Kentucky Shakespeare.

  • Added: Apr 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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Every school day in February, first grade teacher LaToya McGriff dresses up to teach Black History.

  • Added: Mar 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:30
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A woman creates a radio broadcast of bedtime stories for children in war zones.

  • Added: Feb 25, 2021
  • Length: 02:30

  • Added: Aug 26, 2018
  • Length: 02:30
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MaryAnn Wilimek writes poetry and creative nonfiction in Bemidji.Her work has appeared in the Gettysburg Review, Relief, Lake Country Journal, Radi...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2013
  • Length: 02:02
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Steve Downing has been a teacher, house painter, conflict mediator, musician, arts administrator, freelance writer, and has occasionally worked for...

  • Added: Sep 05, 2013
  • Length: 02:49
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
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Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Feb 21, 2013
  • Length: 03:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Patricia Kirkpatrick lives in St. Paul and teaches at Hamline University. She's won awards and fellowships from the McKnight, Jerome, Bush, and Wil...

  • Added: Feb 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:11
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2012
  • Length: 03:07
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Poet Athena Kildegaard lives in "prairie pothole country," her term for Morris, Minnesota where she is a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. A...

  • Added: Nov 26, 2012
  • Length: 02:03
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Michelle Mathees has received a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis. The Jerome Foundation, and the Arrowhead...

  • Added: Nov 14, 2012
  • Length: 02:05
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:29
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 03:33
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Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Tikkun (Heb...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2012
  • Length: 02:26
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Deborah Cooper has recently been named the fourth Poet Laureate of Duluth. Here the Producer of The Beat, Steve Downing reads her poem "Through the...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 02:48
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Sheila Packa lives in northern Minnesota near Lake Superior. She has published three books of poetry. Sheila Packa also edited the acclaimed anthol...

  • Added: Nov 06, 2012
  • Length: 01:39
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 01:45
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Amy Clark is a native Iowan and recent transplant to Northern Minnesota. She is a poet, essayist, university instructor, and sometimes producer fo...

  • Added: Oct 31, 2012
  • Length: 02:20
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Sonya Kosler is a poet who lives in Dent, Minnesota. She belongs to the Lakes Area Story Guild, the National Storytelling Network, and the Northlan...

  • Added: Oct 24, 2012
  • Length: 02:43
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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Broadband." The Beat i...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:47
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume." The Beat is a daily remind...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 02:14
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Gail Rixen has been a finish carpenter, a health care aid, and she currently farms near Nebish, Minnesota. Rixen has published three books of poetr...

  • Added: Oct 23, 2012
  • Length: 03:25