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In a makeshift library in Ethiopia, Yikealo Beyene – an Eritrean refugee – made an unlikely friend. Her harrowing tale stayed with him as he fled h...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 28, 2015
- Length: 13:59
- Purchases: 1
The author of the 2015 International Latino Book Award-winning young adult novel, I LIVED ON BUTTERFLY HILL, Marjorie Agosín has always felt outsid...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: Oct 01, 2015
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 2
Terry Gould is a veteran and author of "How Can You Mend This Purple Heart". He talks about our need to recognize and show support for our veterans.
- Added: Sep 29, 2015
- Length: 01:01
With nearly a decade between his first short story collection, DROWN and his Pulitzer Prize winning novel THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO, Jun...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WMUU-LP, and WNJR
- Added: Sep 22, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
5th graders from DC's Watkins Elementary discuss - and sing about - Kwame Alexander's poetic story of brothers and basketball "The Crossover." LA L...
- Added: Sep 13, 2015
- Length: 22:44
- Added: Sep 09, 2015
- Length: 03:07:20
- Purchases: 1
Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate was one of the first contributors to Northern Community Radio's "The Beat". She's also one of five...
- Added: Sep 02, 2015
- Length: 01:32
Twenty four hours or so have passed since a portrait of the older Atticus Finch as a bigot, complaining about the integration of “Negroes” into th...
- Added: Jul 16, 2015
- Length: 04:07
At Northland Community School in Remer, Lacey Riopelle's 4th graders recently wrote and recorded haiku poetry using the traditional Japanese three ...
- Added: Jul 09, 2015
- Length: 01:01
Hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rare books have been disappearing across America since the late 90s, and haven’t resurfaced in the marke...
- Added: Jun 30, 2015
- Length: 21:34
- Purchases: 2
Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 01:37
- Purchases: 1
Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...
- Added: Jun 17, 2015
- Length: 01:25
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
Jane Smiley discusses her 2014 book, SOME LUCK, the first in a trilogy that follows an Iowa farm family for more than a century. Smiley talks about...
Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and WNJR
- Added: May 20, 2015
- Length: 30:30
- Purchases: 2
Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 01:22
- Purchases: 1
Schoolcraft Learning Community's middle school students read Inge Auerbacher's book 'I am a Star'. Inge Auerbacher was one of the very few childre...
- Added: Apr 24, 2015
- Length: 01:20
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: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 01:16
We begin National Poetry Month by remembering the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Philip Levine, who died on February 14, 2015 at the age of 87 at his...
- Added: Apr 09, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 2
Women's History Month continues with a tribute to the late Carolyn Kizer, the influential poet who died in October 2014. An unmistakable feminist, ...
Bought by WNJR
- Added: Mar 25, 2015
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 1
James Siems is an eighth grader at Schoolcraft Learning Community in Bemidji. He likes crosscountry skiing and soccer. He recently wrote a poem ins...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 01:50
- Purchases: 1
Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...
- Added: Feb 26, 2015
- Length: 03:18
Duane Swierczynski is the author of several crime thrillers including the Shamus Award-winning Charlie Hardie series (Fun & Games, Hell & Gone, Poi...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 11:35
Tim Dorsey was a reporter and editor for the Tampa Tribune from 1987 to 1999, and is the author of seventeen other novels: Tiger Shrimp Tango, The ...
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 11:04
Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...
- Added: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 01:58
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: Jan 22, 2015
- Length: 01:44
