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HOUR ONE: "Imagining Climate Change" - We have lots of facts about climate change. What we need is more stories. Can imagination save the planet? ...
- Added: Feb 07, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Danez Smith's poetry frankly addresses HIV, gay hookups and violence aimed at black men. At formal events, he's not afraid to go flamboyant. KFAI's...
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:25
Jennifer Firestone recounts the state of dementia in a loved one.
- Added: Feb 02, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
The late poet Kenneth Irby (1936-2015) traveled the States before settling in Lawrence, where he spent his teaching and writing career at the Unive...
- Added: Jan 31, 2018
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 3
Sean Sherman is an Oglala Lakota chef and founder of The Sioux Chef. His new cookbook, "The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen," shares award-winning ...
- Added: Jan 24, 2018
- Length: 17:12
Writer Sandip Roy experiences a deeper meaning to the 'Lit fest’ circuit.
- Added: Jan 23, 2018
- Length: 06:00
HOUR ONE: "In the Company of Wolves" - Wolves are among the most controversial animals on the planet. We'll track Yellowstone's wolves with the peo...
- Added: Jan 22, 2018
- Length: 01:58:59
Writer Ward Rubrecht is the first in a series of writers visiting Bagley, MN for the Farm by the Lake Storytelling Series. He spoke about storytel...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 10:02
HOUR ONE: Think you've got nothing to hide? This hour, find out who's watching us and why. HOUR TWO: How do you tell the story of your life? Songw...
- Added: Jan 12, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Ben Fama mediates on the loss of a job and the world view of corporate America.
- Added: Jan 08, 2018
- Length: 04:02
- Purchases: 2
Gail Francis is an author and outdoor enthusiast based in Duluth. Her book, "Bliss(ters): How I Walked From Mexico to Canada One Summer," chronicl...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 20:40
HOUR ONE: "Renunciation" - January is the season of diets and cleanses. Why do we feel compelled to give up our pleasures? HOUR TWO: "Owning The ...
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 01:58:58
Matthew Zapruder dedicates a graduation address to poet and fiction writer Denis Johnson who died in May, 2017.
- Added: Jan 03, 2018
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
HOUR ONE: "Endings (In Four Novellas)" - New Year's Eve can be depressing. We don't handle endings very well. This hour, how to end - relationships...
- Added: Dec 22, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
HOUR ONE: More and more power is getting consolidated in the hands of a few. If capitalism is broken, what's next? HOUR TWO: Why does an empire c...
- Added: Dec 20, 2017
- Length: 01:58:58
Brenda Coultas describes the act of writing as it unfolds during the course of a day.
- Added: Dec 18, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Erin Marsh will read from her upcoming book at the First City Poetry Reads event tonight in Bemidji. She stopped by the studio to talk about poetr...
- Added: Dec 13, 2017
- Length: 10:25
Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna.
- Added: Dec 11, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Uche Nduka expresses a sense of anguish and offers possible spiritual solutions to current political and existential problems.
- Added: Dec 06, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 4
Writer and musician Tom Sancton entered his teens in the early 1960s playing clarinet on stage and on the streets with the veteran African-American...
- Added: Nov 30, 2017
- Length: 52:00
Jennifer Moxley meditates on Eros, mythology, and the cosmos.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
David Lau combines opera, theater, and avant garde art in a poem inspired by student protests.
- Added: Nov 29, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 5
Sueyeun Juliette Lee mediates on loss and its aftermath.
- Added: Nov 27, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 2
Joshua Edwards mediates on the nature of work and communal living.
- Added: Nov 15, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
Julien Poirier navigates the line between what can be imagined and what is real.
- Added: Nov 13, 2017
- Length: 04:00
- Purchases: 3
