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Heidi Holtan speaks with William Kent Krueger about his 2013 novel, Ordinary Grace, the Cork O'Connor series, and the journey of writing. His next ...

  • Added: Jan 19, 2016
  • Length: 11:49
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Northern Community Radio staff share passages from their favorite Christmastime scenes in literature.

  • Added: Dec 28, 2015
  • Length: 09:53
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:56
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Tammy Bobrowsky talks about books: "Everybody's Heard about the Bird: The True Story of 1960s Rock 'n' Roll in Minnesota," The Thrilling Adventures...

  • Added: Dec 09, 2015
  • Length: 05:49
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Tammy Bobrowsky and listener-readers review the following books: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry, Letters to Isabella, Home, and The Art of Languag...

  • Added: Nov 20, 2015
  • Length: 08:25
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Here's another of the poems we have in our library now, written and read by Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's Poet Laureate.

  • Added: Nov 12, 2015
  • Length: 01:13
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Tammy Bobrowsky reviews books with recent or upcoming movie adaptations, including listener-reader reviews: A Walk in the Woods, Room, The Devil in...

  • Added: Nov 10, 2015
  • Length: 06:49
Caption: Ghost Ship, Credit: Albert Pinkham Ryder
Jackie, a journalist in the 1920s, thought she'd seen it all when she boarded a ship headed where few ships dare sail.

  • Added: Sep 08, 2015
  • Length: 30:27
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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: Aug 26, 2015
  • Length: 01:30
Caption: Jason Segel & James Ponsoldt, San Francisco, CA 5/2/15, Credit: Andrea Chase
Jason Segel and James Ponsoldt talk misconceptions, epiphanies of genius, and the musician’s ear.

  • Added: Aug 08, 2015
  • Length: 16:12
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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: Aug 05, 2015
  • Length: 01:29
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2015
  • Length: 02:35
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The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nur...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis, RadioFreePalmer, WMUU-LP, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WABE


  • Added: Jun 07, 2015
  • Length: 58:37
  • Purchases: 5
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Gwen Nell Westerman, an enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate, is professor in english and director of humanities at Minnesota State Unive...

  • Added: May 21, 2015
  • Length: 02:06
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Seth Bjornrud is a paraprofessional in Sara Breeze's class at Schoolcraft Learning Community.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: May 06, 2015
  • Length: 01:26
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Nikki Giovanni
We'll hear poets- many from the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movements- reading their work, along with poetry set to music, and hip-hop. We'll...

Bought by KZUM, KZUM, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash., WJAB, KPIP-LP and more


  • Added: Feb 11, 2015
  • Length: 01:57:59
  • Purchases: 7
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Searching for the way Shakespeare really sounded. And more...

Bought by WCNY, WABE, KREV-LP, and KKRN


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 4
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Off the coast of Virginia, in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay, lies a shrinking island called Tangier. Here, an unlikely adventurer docked his sai...

Bought by KENW, New Hampshire Public Radio, WTJU, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 30, 2015
  • Length: 03:51
  • Purchases: 4
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John Pula was raised in Kelliher, Minnesota and is currently in exile working as an engineer in Florida, plotting his return to Minnesota. He enjoy...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:59
  • Purchases: 1
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CAFÉ ACOUSMATIC: the finest blend of electroacoustic music, sound art, and 3D binaural audio.

  • Added: Nov 11, 2014
  • Length: 01:00:00
Caption: Fifty-thousand words in a month. How's it going?, Credit: National Novel Writing Month Organizatoin
A newly updated piece on NaNoWriMo. November is National Novel Writing Month, sometimes known as NaNoWriMo. In a studio loft on the Chicago's North...

Bought by WRST-FM Oshkosh and WAMC Northeast Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 29, 2014
  • Length: 05:12
  • Purchases: 2
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Dennis Herschbach is a northern Minnesota writer, whose poems have won awards in national contests. He's also written a novel you might have heard ...

  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:45
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When Captain John Smith sailed into the Chesapeake Bay, he said oysters were as big as dinner plates. This show is our ode to oysters.

Bought by WJCT, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF


  • Added: Aug 15, 2014
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
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Larry Gavin teaches English at Faribault High School. He's had three collections of poetry published by Red Dragonfly Press and he's a nationally ...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:57
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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: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:41