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A few years ago Lisa Potts was looking behind her dresser when she saw a cassette tape. She’d forgotten about the tape--a recording of an interview...
Bought by WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: May 26, 2015
- Length: 05:55
- Purchases: 5
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
In a remote corner of Tel Aviv's grimy, labyrinthine central bus station, Mendy Cahan has built a home for Israel's rejected Yiddish books, and it'...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 16:05
Chaya Gilboa falls deeply in love with a library book, and becomes convinced that her soulmate will have felt the same connection to the text. She ...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 12:51
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
We hope you've never been in a store like this one! Chuckle with author Amanda Filipacchi, who writes with deceptive ease and here reads from her w...
- Added: Feb 19, 2015
- Length: 01:40
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
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
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
All programs produced during spring semester, 2014.
- Added: Dec 23, 2014
- Length: 02:35:12
Behind the scenes and before the downbeat… join concert pianist and host Lara Downes backstage in the Green Room for a look into the real lives of ...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Nov 27, 2014
- Length: 14:11
- Purchases: 1
Ever wondered what the *tattoos* covering that woman's arm mean? Author Isaac Fitzgerald reads from his new book, Pen & Ink: Tattoos and The Storie...
- Added: Nov 17, 2014
- Length: 01:40
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
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
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
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
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
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
WTIP's Ann Possis had the chance to speak with best-selling Minnesota author Lorna Landvik recently about her new book, "Best to Laugh." It's loos...
- Added: Sep 16, 2014
- Length: 18:38
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
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
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
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: Aug 13, 2014
- Length: 01:41
This Women's Words features Esther Marcella Hoffmann from Mankato, Minnesota reading two poems, "For the Males," and "Mama Gaia."
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 30, 2014
- Length: 02:21
- Purchases: 1
Larry Shug is the author of six books of poems. He's been a Minnesota book award finalist, a Midwest book award finalist and he was awarded a McKni...
- Added: Jul 17, 2014
- Length: 01:39
