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.
852 Pieces
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Marjorie Buettner's new collection of haibun is "Some Measure of Existance" recently published by Red Dragonfly Press which has also published coll...
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 01:03
Jill Dermody is currently working on the third draft of her book, "The Skyrian Memoirs", about her experience volunteering on a horse farm in Greec...
- Added: Oct 08, 2015
- Length: 02:10
Francine Sterle is the author of "Nude In Winter," published in 2006 which was a LA Times Book of the Year finalist. She has also published two o...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 01:22
Chris Julson grew up on a farm in South Dakota where he discovered underground radio. He played in a touring band. He spent fifteen years engineeri...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 01:36
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: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 01:32
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 02:22
Steve Downing is a hunter, martini connoisseur, fashion icon and sly observer of the art around him. He is also a husband and a romantic with a man...
- Added: Sep 30, 2015
- Length: 02:00
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: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: :47
Sharon Harris was born in Park Rapids, Minnesota and she still lives near there. Her day job is at the First National Bank of Menahga in Sebeka. Sh...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 01:30
Brian Laidlaw is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program in poetry. He lives in the Twin Cities, and teaches songwriting at McNally S...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 02:19
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat". She's also one of five...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 01:31
Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...
- Added: Sep 23, 2015
- Length: 01:47
Aaron Wenger is a retired educator, an engineer who became a teacher and helped transform Itasca Community College's engineering program. His inter...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:15
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He likes music, physical books and coffeehouses. And he...
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:36
Donald Dass, a Duluth poet, says about himself that he's a lifelong bon-vivant easing into geezerhood while examines he the mystery, whimsy and fru...
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:26
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat". She's also one of five...
- Added: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:37
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: Sep 16, 2015
- Length: 01:30
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...
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- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 01:58
- Purchases: 1
Alex Stolis has been a janitor, a counselor, a waiter, a bartender, a housekeeper, a salesman, a cook, a criminal, and has been, and a never was. T...
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 01:07
Kevin Zepper teaches at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 01:52
