Lisa Johnson
- Username: LisaJohnson
- PRX Member
- Role: Host: Station-Based
Recent Pieces from Lisa Johnson
(poetry): Climate Emergency Poetry series: the All-Stars
(07:36)
From: WDSE
Three of Minnesota's finest poets - Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, and Thom Tammaro - offered poetic commentary on life in the time of climate change during the most recent ...
MN Reads: "Gichigami Hearts: Stories and Histories from Misaaabekong" by Linda LeGarde Grover
(07:52)
From: WDSE
Linda LeGarde Grover has turned her hand to telling some old stories in her latest book, Gichigami Hearts Stories and Histories from Misaabekong: some imagined, some from ...
Shairi (poetry): "Mit jaye gunahon ka tasawwur" by Sir Muhammad Iqbal
(09:51)
From: WDSE
UMD student Hooriya Habib is at home with her family in Qatar, but she's getting ready to return to Duluth at the end of August. Hooriya speaks English and Arabic as well as ...
MN Reads: "Walking Softly" by Thomas Peacock
(13:42)
From: WDSE
A character readers may remember from Thomas Peacock's Beginnings and The Tao of Nookomis has penned his own story. Author and publisher Thomas Peacock's newest novel, ...
(poetry): Climate Emergency Poetry series: the Out-of-Towners edition
(09:10)
From: WDSE
The Climate Emergency Poetry Series' next event is May 16, and this, the eighth iteration, is the "out-of-towners" edition. Co-founder (with John Herold) Phil Fitzpatrick ...
(poetry): Climate Emergency Poetry series: the Student Edition
(14:24)
From: WDSE
Phil Fitzpatrick is almost always poetic, even when he's pessimistic. He wrote in a recent column in the Duluth News Tribune: "After years of trying to understand and solve ...
Mazinaajimowin (poetry): "To the Pine Tree" by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
(10:11)
From: WDSE
There aren't a lot of people who write poetry in Ojibwe, nor does Michelle Goose aspire to be one of them. Michelle is on the Native American Studies faculty at Fond du Lac ...
Dedric Clark
(18:31)
From: WDSE
This Cloquet native was on tour in Europe with his band The Social Animals when the pandemic shut everything down. Now based in Nashville, Clark has had the opportunity to ...
MN Reads: "Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress" by Ranae Hanson
(19:35)
From: WDSE
Ranae Hanson was already deeply committed to combating climate change when she was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes.
Then suddenly everything made sense in a whole new way.
