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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Murial Keaveny is retired, and didn't start writing poetry until she was sixty-five years old. She's attended several writing workshops over the ye...
- Added: Dec 10, 2012
- Length: 02:01
Ron Frannea lives in Moorhead, Minnesota where he was born and raised. He's an adjunct Professor of English at both the University of Minnesota Sta...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 02:40
Cheryl Wilke was born and raised on the prairie in small town central Minnesota. She's been published in The Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 02:14
Danny Klecko runs a bakery in Saint Paul. Many of his poems are written while he bakes for capitol city. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minn...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 01:54
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: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 02:37
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 01:55
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
CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...
- Added: Dec 09, 2012
- Length: 01:56
Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry.
The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota ...
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- Added: Sep 19, 2012
- Length: 02:08
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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...
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- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 02:24
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 01:37
Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 02:02
Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Arrangement In Gray and Black." The Beat is a daily reminder that...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 01:48
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Nov 27, 2012
- Length: 02:02
Naturalist and Science Teacher Roberta Tietge lives in Duluth. She is the former Chair of the North Shore Writer's Guild. And Roberta devotes the m...
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 01:45
Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...
- Added: Nov 26, 2012
- Length: 02:01
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
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
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
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: Nov 14, 2012
- Length: 02:54
