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Culturology: Minnesota Author Peter Geye talks to Heidi Holtan in this Real Good Words interview
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Author: Peter Geye
Minnesota author Peter Geye's newest book is called "The Lighthouse Road." Around the turn of the last century Thea Eide left Norway for America, s...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Aug 05, 2013
  • Length: 18:40
  • Purchases: 3
The Beat: Todd Boss - "To Wait"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Todd Boss grew up on a cattle farm in Wisconsin, and lives now in St. Paul. His two books of poetry have won rave reviews from all over. His second...

  • Added: Jun 09, 2013
  • Length: 02:31
The Beat: Gary Lee Joyner - "I Itch"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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: May 30, 2013
  • Length: 01:52
Selective Memory (w/Channing And Quinn)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Memorial Day is a great time to recommit to truth and to justice, to taking memories of past incidents and truly learning from them; committing to ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 29, 2013
  • Length: 29:23
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg on Children's Books
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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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
Culturology: An essay from Erika Kooda - Erika Reviews "The Perks of Being A Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
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
Culturology: A Travel Memoir from Mexico by Dan Sinykin: Parts One and Two
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Dan Sinykin
Dan Sinykin is in the midst of extensive travel in Mexico to do research for his graduate studies. Throughout his travels Sinykin will be submittin...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio


  • Added: May 13, 2013
  • Length: 12:24
  • Purchases: 1
Putting The Passion Back Into Compassion (With Sam Corbin)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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"I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be anything but honest in that moment. I love the look in people’s eyes whe...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 09, 2013
  • Length: 29:22
  • Purchases: 1
Meet The Frackers (With Mike Himebaugh)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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In this episode, we look at one of the most pressing environmental issues; fracking. There are so many ways to think about an issue like this; with...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: May 01, 2013
  • Length: 29:20
  • Purchases: 1
Culturology: Joe Plut Talks About Fellow Writer and Friend John Hassler
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Jon Hassler, Credit: Greg Becker
The late Jon Hassler was an author, an educator, a playwrite, and an artist. Hassler didn't begin writing until age 37. Nevertheless he published f...

Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 19:43
  • Purchases: 2
Schumacher meets Ayn Rand
From: Gwen yfar
Series: Live Local. Live Small.
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A look at community motivated selfishness in "Buy Local" movements.

  • Added: Apr 24, 2013
  • Length: 04:47
No More Hurting People With Brian Vander Ark (Boston Bombing
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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The image of 8 year old Martin Richard holding a handmade sign saying, "No more hurting people- Peace" pretty well broke my heart. To think that he...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 23, 2013
  • Length: 28:12
  • Purchases: 1
You Are What You Tweet (With Brian Vander Ark
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Censorship never works for long. People power prevails, eventually. No matter how much dictators, or religions, try to control the spread of inform...

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  • Added: Apr 17, 2013
  • Length: 29:59
  • Purchases: 1
Dead Man Walking (With Brian Vander Ark)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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In the movie The Interpreter, the character played by Nicole Kidman says, "Vengeance is a lazy form of grief." If we're honest, most of us have mo...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Apr 16, 2013
  • Length: 30:08
  • Purchases: 1
We Are Poets by Oak Park and River Forest High School Poetry Team
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2013
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
Awareness IS Freedom (With Joshua Davis)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Awareness is the first step to freedom. You won't leave a relationship, confront an abuser or change a habit until you become aware of the problem....

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2013
  • Length: 27:06
  • Purchases: 1
The Examined Life (w/Jen Sygit and Laura Bates)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Ian Lawton enjoins listeners to be authentic and mindful of true wisdom, by virtue of knowing our highest sense of self. Jen Sygit and Laura Bates...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 30, 2013
  • Length: 27:38
  • Purchases: 1
Tabled Fables 7 Jack and the Beanstalk
From: Amy Kraft
Series: Tabled Fables
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In this episode we discuss how Jack's conquest of the giant relates to 19th century English colonialism with the help of scholar Brian Szumsky. We ...

  • Added: Mar 29, 2013
  • Length: 22:35
Element Of Surprise (w/Joe Sturgil)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Host Ian Lawton shares thoughts on tricksters, welcoming surprise and staying open to the unexpected as keys to spiritual growth. Singer songwriter...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 22, 2013
  • Length: 29:36
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Carol Ann Russell- "Poets of the Non-Catholic Cemetary"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Carol Ann Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 20, 2013
  • Length: 02:32
  • Purchases: 1
Soul Searching (with Garrett Borns)
From: Ian Lawton
Series: Soulseeds Radio
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Host Ian Lawton explores the meaning of soul, and living soulfully, in this episode featuring original singer songwriter Garret Borns.

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Mar 15, 2013
  • Length: 27:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Linda Back McKay - "Chicken Without a Cause"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Linda Back McKay is an independent advertising and marketing director. She is widely published. Linda Back McKay is also a long time volunteer and ...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Ryan Vine - "Psalm at Last Call"
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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:41
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat : Francine Sterle - "Consider Pa Ling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Francine Sterle is the author of 2006 book "Nude In Winter," which was a finalist for the LA Times Book of the Year. She has also published two oth...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
The Beat : Mike Forbes - "Coming Into Leaving"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Mike Forbes is a Bemidji area writer. He's been published in Fire Ring, The Talking Stick, The Poet's Touch Stone, Voices For the Land, among other...

  • Added: Feb 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:40

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