The Beat
Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.
This series features short poems by writers that have some connection to Minnesota. Some of these poets are alive, some are not. Some are well known, some are not.
Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist,teacher and poet from the Twin Cities. He describes the map of his activities as an archipelago of isl...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 02:17
Erin Lynn Marsh is a Bemidji poet. She's published her work in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She's a graduate of the MFA ...
- Added: Nov 04, 2015
- Length: 01:35
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the natural world, in her...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: :50
Francis Larson holds an MA in English as a second language with an interest in arts integration and language acquistion and he currently teaches Fr...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 01:22
Julia Klatt-Singer as described by her son is a long haired, wild eyed, sweater wearing poet and thief.
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 01:17
Jim Johnson is the current and former poet laureate of Duluth not many poets laureate can say that. He's taught for three plus decades in the
Dulu...
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 02:44
Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.
- Added: Oct 29, 2015
- Length: 01:24
Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 01:35
Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: :56
Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 01:40
Danny Klecko runs a bakery in Saint Paul. Many of his poems are written while he bakes for capitol city and he's had help with his writting and rec...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 01:21
Julie Gard is a prose poet that lives in Duluth and teaches writing at the University of Wisconsin-Superior. She writes about art, travel, family, ...
- Added: Oct 22, 2015
- Length: 01:38
Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:51
Sonya Kosler was born in Montana and lives now in Dent, Minnesota, at the literal southwestern edge of KAXE-KBXE land. She's a member of the Lakes ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 03:26
Ryan Kutter lives near Grey Eagle, Minnesota where he gardens and makes wooden furniture and writes. An english major, he graduated from St John's ...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:52
Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:34
Susan Hensel is originally from the Finger Lakes area of New York state. She's a world traveler who settled in at the University of Michigan for he...
- Added: Oct 15, 2015
- Length: 01:44
Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing writer and director in the Twin Cities. Her most recent books are "The Next Best Thing...
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- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 02:02
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Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 01:39
Robert Jevne lives, works, farms and occassionally writes in the greater Jacobson area.
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: :44
