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My friend Vern Acular and I were out on firefly patrol last night. It's early in the season, but you can't ever afford to let your guard down ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
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My friend Jimmy Fingerbutton invented an unforgetting machine. I can't remember what it's called ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:23
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Not too long ago, in a town not too far away, there lived a very sensible young boy named Brian ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:20
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Once upon a faraway long ago, there lived a young girl named Alice, who was very fond of stale biscuits ...

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 03:31
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"I hope I remembered to put away the elephant ..."

  • Added: Jun 11, 2015
  • Length: 02:31
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Margaret Hasse is a Twin Cities consultant, working primarily in the arts and art education. She's published four books of poetry and has received ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:20
From: Don Hill
Series: Xpressions
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 19, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

Bought by Key Radio KEYK 89.3 FM


  • Added: Apr 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:44
  • Purchases: 1
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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 ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Dean Brooks graduated from Bemidji State University in 2012 with a degree in Creative Writing. He looks for inspiration in dusty corners, early mor...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:06
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An amusing passage from one of 2014's Ten Best Books (New York Times Book Review), Family Life is a novel by Akhil Sharma who grew up in Delhi, Ind...

  • Added: Feb 13, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:38
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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...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 01:25
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Mike Finley recites a poem by Rich Broderick. Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:56
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Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
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Dallas Crow's work has appeared in Tar River Poetry and Poet Lore. His book, "Small, Imperfect Paradise," is due out from Parallel Press this year....

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
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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: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
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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: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
Caption: Wedge-tailed Shearwater, Credit: Duncan Wright
Some early sailors, visiting remote Pacific islands, surely feared that the ungodly wailing on shore meant they had been tricked to the gates of He...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, WETD, and WKCC


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 3
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 03:55
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
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Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
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XPRESSIONS is a series of short, light-hearted features about the origin of popular phrases & sayings of every sort.

  • Added: Sep 01, 2014
  • Length: 01:53
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Mark Conway is a 2012 recipient of an artist initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. And he is the Director of the Literary Arts Inst...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:21
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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 writing and reco...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:38