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Today on Art Beat we visit with a Minnesota Children’s literature writer who is also considered a reader, teacher, thinker, and advocate. This indi...

Bought by KPIP-LP and KSRQ


  • Added: Aug 16, 2013
  • Length: 20:40
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Alison Hawthorne Deming
Poet, essayist, and teacher, Alison Hawthorne Deming compares the northeast and southwest landscapes and their different impacts on her writing pro...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 29:02
Caption: Luis Alberto Urrea
Luis Alberto Urrea discusses his latest book "Queen of America," and his alternating relationship to prose and poetry. He also talks about his expe...

  • Added: Feb 27, 2013
  • Length: 14:31
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Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Lola Quartet, talks about her unique upbringing, moving to New York with no money, and whether social media he...

  • Added: Feb 17, 2013
  • Length: 47:08
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On this episode of Art Beat, we visit with Minnesota author and Winona native, Kevin Fenton. Kevin penned the book "Merit Badges" which he describe...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KVSC, and KSRQ


  • Added: Dec 07, 2012
  • Length: 32:55
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: B.A. Shapiro
The New York Times estimates that nearly forty percent of museum and gallery art is forged. Keep that in mind as you read the new book by B.A. Sha...

  • Added: Nov 08, 2012
  • Length: 20:24
Caption: Ashley Bryan, Credit: Rama Hughes
Perhaps Rick Benjamin was nominated to host the show because he has just has this unmistakable GLOW...perhaps it's because of the way this energy i...

  • Added: Aug 21, 2012
  • Length: 44:14
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 05, 2012
  • Length: 01:48:40
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: Jun 04, 2012
  • Length: 01:54:56
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Conversations and live musical performance based on international themes.

  • Added: May 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:52:21
Caption: Sherwin Bitsui
Sherwin Bitsui reads from FLOOD SONG, his poetry collection that won the 2010 American Book Award and the PEN Open Book Award. Raised in a border t...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: May 24, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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The Kentucky poet who coined the term “Affrilachian” has a new collection of poetry. Allison Quantz reports he takes on historical and current racism.

Bought by KENW and West Virginia Public Broadcasting


  • Added: Apr 09, 2012
  • Length: 02:27
  • Purchases: 2
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A new chapter in the Godfather will be published later this year. The author speaks with us about the experience, what's in store for the Corleone...

Bought by WJCT and WABE


  • Added: Mar 19, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 2
Caption: Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Poet Jeanne Marie Beaumont's books include CURIOUS CONDUCT and PLACEBO EFFECTS, and her collection, BURNING OF THE THREE FIRES. She assembles ever...

Bought by WJCU


  • Added: Mar 09, 2012
  • Length: 29:01
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Robert Bly
Esteemed poet and translator, Robert Bly, is joined by sitarist David Whetstone in this public reading for the Midwest Poets Series. Bly reads a ...

Bought by KFAI Minneapolis


  • Added: Dec 28, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Today on Art Beat we examine the author. MN author Eric Dregni is here to talk about his new book "Vikings in the Attic: In search of Nordic Americ...

Bought by KPIP-LP, KSRQ, and KVSC


  • Added: Dec 07, 2011
  • Length: 32:34
  • Purchases: 3
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In part two of our conversation with Choreographer Liz Lerman, we explore false dichotomies, including the one that opposes art to science

Bought by KPIP-LP


  • Added: Aug 08, 2011
  • Length: 25:11
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Neil Gaiman waits backstage, Credit: David J. Murray, Clear Eyed Photo
Multimedia sensation reads from the new edition of "American Gods," and talks Twitter, Dr. Who, and the power of librarians with host Virginia Pres...

Bought by KSRQ, Connecticut Public (WNPR), and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 49:27
  • Purchases: 3
Caption: Author Ann Patchett
An hour long reading and interview with Ann Patchett recorded in front of a live audience at the Portsmouth Music Hall in June, 2011.

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 29, 2011
  • Length: 53:30
  • Purchases: 1
Caption: Ryan Witt
What if you were a superhero that had a completely undesirable power? Today on Art Beat we visit with a Winona local who is creating a character th...

  • Added: Dec 20, 2010
  • Length: 32:24
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What does it take for a critically acclaimed mystery writer to make it to the New York Times bestseller list? MN writer William Kent Krueger thinks...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2010
  • Length: 21:31
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It's a New England poetry hour, starting with Amherst's Emily Dickinson by way of Helen Vendler, the closest of close readers of poetry, and ending...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass. and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Oct 14, 2010
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 2
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We talk with Maureen Gibbon about her compelling new novel, "Thief."

  • Added: Jul 15, 2010
  • Length: 24:28
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RealGoodWords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 28:44
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Realgoodwords is a one-hour weekly radio program for readers, writers and those who appreciate the written word.

  • Added: Jun 24, 2010
  • Length: 09:03