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Lorie Yourd is a retired educator and a dedicated advocate for the arts living in the Bemidji area. Here she reads her poem "Montana Log Cabin Cafe...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 02:01
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...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 02:14
Robert Bly refers to Louis Jenkins, poet from Duluth, as the contemporary master of prose poetry.
A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matte...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 02:35
SUSAN ORLEAN - Best-selling Author of "The Orchid Thief" and "Rin Tin Tin."
JOHN RODERICK - Talented American musician and writer.
PORTLAND CELLO...
Bought by Rhythm & News Service, Oregon Public Broadcasting, and WCPN
- Added: Jul 26, 2012
- Length: 59:00
- Purchases: 3
The author of six novels, such as PROJECT X, Jim Shepard has taken to writing short fiction. His last three books are short story collections, inc...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: Jul 13, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 1
Jubilee Hitchhiker, William “Gatz” Hjortsberg’s exhaustive profile of Richard Brautigan, will change the way all of us remember the legendary poet ...
- Added: Jul 11, 2012
- Length: 30:02
Wendell Affield of Bemidji joins Charlie Pulkrabek to talk about his new memoir about his experience in the Mobile Riverine Force while serving as ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jul 06, 2012
- Length: 14:07
- Purchases: 1
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...
Bought by WJCU
- Added: May 24, 2012
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
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
In this special anthology, we explore how women writers foster community across boundaries. Novelist Lisa See shares stories about Chinese women wr...
- Added: Mar 21, 2012
- Length: 29:01
- Purchases: 2
The original "Ozark Reflections" story, including additional folk music by Becky Stevens at end of narrative.
- Added: Feb 25, 2012
- Length: 54:25
Poet Michelle Boisseau talks about her collection A SUNDAY IN GOD-YEARS, which examines borders between black and white, free and slave, living and...
- Added: Jan 02, 2012
- Length: 29:00
Radio Curious discusses time, as we know it, with Clark Blaise, author of "Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time."
- Added: Dec 26, 2011
- Length: 29:01
Lora and Neil join Heidi from their car and driveway, for a conversation about each of their new books.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 13, 2011
- Length: 18:31
- Purchases: 1
The new novel by Jay Asher and Carolyn Mackler poses the question of how a person would live their life if they had a window to their future selves.
- Added: Dec 07, 2011
- Length: 21:14
A conversation with the author of a new book about the literary history of Brooklyn.
- Added: Nov 11, 2011
- Length: 08:00
Songwriter Vince Martinez discusses his song inspired by Chapters 11 and 12 of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States, written and p...
- Added: Oct 28, 2011
- Length: 05:00
Songwriter Michael Wallenfels discusses his song inspired by Shel Silverstein's My Moon Catchin' Net.
Bought by Spokane Public Radio and PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 19, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 2
Songwriter Anna Coogan discusses her approach to writing songs inspired by Nick Hornby's High Fidelity.
- Added: Oct 10, 2011
- Length: 05:01
Songwriter Kate Graves discusses her approach to writing songs inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 06, 2011
- Length: 05:00
- Purchases: 1
Part 1 of two programs funded by the upcoming 5-part PBS series "Women, War & Peace," which will air on consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on O...
Bought by Yellowstone Public Radio
- Added: Sep 26, 2011
- Length: 30:02
- Purchases: 1
Novelist Wesley Stace, who performs under the stage name, John Wesley Harding, discusses his work.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Sep 08, 2011
- Length: 29:27
- Purchases: 1
Actor Alfred Molina shines with masterful readings of excerpts from Edith Wharton's masterpiece. The screenwriter of Scorsese's film adaptation, Ja...
- Added: Aug 17, 2011
- Length: 29:03
- Purchases: 5
“On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.” This half-hou...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 28:58
- Purchases: 4
Hear acclaimed authors including Michael Chabon (Wonderboys), Orson Scott Card (Ender's Game), and Walter Mosley discuss Ursula K. Le Guin's coming...
- Added: Aug 16, 2011
- Length: 29:08
- Purchases: 6
