The Beat

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.

This series features short poems by writers that have some connection to Minnesota. Some of these poets are alive, some are not. Some are well known, some are not.

Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.


852 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
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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 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:25
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Apr 23, 2015
  • Length: 02:10
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Steve Downing hosts the 3rd Beat Cafe at the Railriver Folk School in Bemidji. A 2 hour, live broadcast with poetry and music. Poets include: Sean ...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:59:57
  • Purchases: 1
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
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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: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:42
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Ryan Kutter lives near Grey Eagle, Minnesota where he gardens and makes wooden furniture and writes. An english major, he graduated from St John's ...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:33
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Tina Dybvik occasionally sounds off in the Downtown St. Paul Voice, her verse has appeared in Huff/Post 50, the Meloncholy Dane Quarterly, and Iron...

  • Added: Apr 09, 2015
  • Length: 02:27
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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
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

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  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: :59
  • Purchases: 1
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Marsh Muirhead is a writer, a dentist, and a flight instructor. He is a winner and twice a finalist of The Great American Think Off. And he is the ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:32
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:02
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:01
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Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:05
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Sean Hill is a poet who grew up in Georgia and lives in Bemidji, Minnesota. His first book "Blood Ties and Brown Liquor has been compared to first ...

  • Added: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:33
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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: Mar 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:32
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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...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 1