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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Berryman's Hands." The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesot...

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:03
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: May 20, 2013
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Erika Kooda
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School and an intern at Northern Community Radio. During the school year she's been checking in with e...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 03:06
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: The poets of Oak Park and River Forest High School, Credit: (WBEZ/file)
"We Are Poets" is a team piece that explores different parts of a march. Poets march in protest of a law passed in 2023 forbidding free speech. Per...

  • Added: Apr 12, 2013
  • Length: 02:54
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KAXE contributor, Robert Jevne, shares "Cherries." A piece about a young woman's artistic venture with an intriguing direction.

  • Added: Jan 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:26
Caption: The Survivors by Will Weaver
Heidi Holtan talked with Bemidji author Will Weaver about young adult novels and his latest “The Survivors” a sequel to the bestselling “Memory Boy...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:02
  • Purchases: 1
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The program features the voices of author, Tobias Wolff, along with a great cast of writers and thinkers: Jonathan Lethem, Lorrie Moore, T.C. Boyle...

Bought by KMUN, KPIP-LP, KQED, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and KRZA


  • Added: Aug 16, 2011
  • Length: 28:49
  • Purchases: 5
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His sixth year in the competition, Nate says this piece is about poetry, the Slam, and the positive impact it can have on youth. Nate Marshall is ...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 02:26
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Her first year in the competition, Annie says this piece is about a boy who thought he deserved a story. Annie Kahane is 19 years old and a member...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:04
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This is the group piece (4 poets) performed in-studio by Northside College Prep High School, which was a team finalist in the 2008 Louder Than a Bo...

  • Added: Apr 02, 2008
  • Length: 03:08
Caption: Judith Sloan, Credit: photo Michael Premo, design Warren Lehrer
From YO MISS! Teaching Inside the Cultural Divide, Volume 1, a play by Judith Sloan. WINNER FIRST PLACE 2008, Missouri Review Narrative Essay about...

  • Added: Feb 25, 2008
  • Length: 06:48
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There is an editor within each of us, and sometimes that editor needs to be killed. This poet is a student at Maine East High School (Park Ridge,...

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:26