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The Beat: Tim Brennen - "Waiting for Lauren Bacall"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Tim J. Brennen, has been a secondary English teacher for over 30 years. He writes and golfs and plays husband and dad in Austin,Minnesota.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Danny Klecko - "Hitmen In the Kitchen"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 02:28
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Kevin Zepper "Badger Politics"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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
GUESTS: Pauline Oliveros + Steve Reich
From: Don Hill
Series: Cafe Acousmatic
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
Pen and Paper
From: E. C. Bond
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An Audio Drama about table-top, pen and paper role playing games.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2014
  • Length: 43:00
The Juniper Tree
From: KUER
Series: Radio Hour
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KUER's RadioWest and Salt Lake City's Plan B Theatre Company present The Juniper Tree, adapted for radio from the Grimm Fairy Tale.

  • Added: Oct 17, 2014
  • Length: 06:25
The Beat: Kevin Zepper "Outside the Sunflower Market in Boulder, CO - July"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Kevin Zepper teaches at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:18
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "Bare Bones"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is KAXE's staff physicist, and a poet. A daily reminder that, in ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 02:32
The Beat: Larry Shug - "Tango Luna"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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
The Beat: Teresa Anderson & Nikki Anderson-Weir - "Parallel Lives"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Nikki Anderson-Weir, a high school student from Bemidji first read on the Beat last year and was one of the readers in the first Beat Cafe. This ye...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 27, 2014
  • Length: 03:13
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Katya Kivi - "Untitled Haiku"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Katya Kivi is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community besides writing poetry, she enjoys all kinds of sports.

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:03
The Beat: Ryan Vine "Rule 4"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 02:07
The Beat: Eric Pollard - "Untitled Comma Too Many"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Named 2013 Song Writer of the Year by "CityPages" in Minneapolis, Eric Pollard is the Grand Rapids native behind the band "Actual Wolf". His debut ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 18, 2014
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Other People's Stories
From: Tobin Low
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When he was 18 years old, Joe McCrossen up and left Cape Cod. Now, at 23, he’s back home and saving up money for his next big adventure. But instea...

Bought by PRX Remix and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Dec 04, 2013
  • Length: 07:54
  • Purchases: 2
Anne Waldman & The Beats
From: New Letters on the Air
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Prolific poet and winner of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Award, Anne Waldman is younger than the Beat Generation, but she did know many of its pro...

  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
Fresh Talk: Khadijah Queen
From: Cathy Byrd
Series: Fresh Art International
Caption: Khadijah Queen
On Skype, Cathy Byrd talks to poet Khadijah Queen about her creative practice and shares poems from her latest book, "Black Peculiar."

  • Added: Jan 04, 2013
  • Length: 15:03
Twist Tale Underground
From: Jason Samilski
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Weird story; more "how" than "about"

  • Added: Apr 11, 2012
  • Length: 12:52
Dancing Toward Bethlehem
From: Audra Coulombe
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Soundscape --- the poem expressed in sound

  • Added: Nov 23, 2011
  • Length: 04:01
A Conversation with Creative Placemakers in Miami
From: National Endowment for the Arts
Series: Art Works
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Three of Miami’s cultural organizers talk about the power of art in building community.

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 31:44
  • Purchases: 1
Marc Hendrix, KC Glastetter, and Jeremie Hollman talk about Yellowstone National Park
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
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During the first half of this program, Marc Hendrix talks about his book, 'Geology Underfoot in Yellowstone Country.' In the second half, KC Glaste...

Bought by KREV-LP and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 07, 2011
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Cat Lady
From: Joseph Keckler
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A short story in which a young man narrates a particular afternoon in the home of his mother, who has created a theater, of sorts, in which cats ar...

  • Added: Dec 24, 2009
  • Length: 22:19
The Cutting Place
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about DJ Guerin, who’s 32, with 7 kids.

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, and Remix Radio


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 05:03
  • Purchases: 5
Just a Girl
From: Lu Olkowski
Series: In Verse: Women of Troy
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A documentary poem about an afternoon spent with Billie Jean Hill at the Flag Day parade in Troy, New York. Billie Jean is a 25-year-old woman with...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, WMNF, Third Coast Festival/Re:sound (Outside Purchaser), New Hampshire Public Radio, BBC Americana and more


  • Added: Nov 03, 2009
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 6
Finding Beauty In A Broken World
From: James Mills
Series: The Joy Trip Project
Caption: Author Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams discusses her book which draws parallels between the Rwandan genocide and the plight of the Utah prairie dog

Bought by KZMU Moab Community Radio, KZMU Moab Community Radio, and KVMR


  • Added: May 05, 2009
  • Length: 23:57
  • Purchases: 3
Pelham Bay
From: WFUV
Series: Sound Poetry
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Remembering days at a gritty but still summery Bronx beach.

  • Added: Mar 31, 2009
  • Length: 04:51