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An interview with, and tribute to, Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison. Also: The Civil Rights Movement and television. Plus: the singer Odetta.

Bought by WCNY, KEDT, WRST-FM Oshkosh, WMUU-LP, KMRE-LP Bellingham, Wash. and more


  • Added: Feb 12, 2016
  • Length: 53:57
  • Purchases: 7
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WFHB Blue Monday DJ and Blues guitarist Jason Fickel discusses Zora Neale Hurston with IU professor M. Cooper Harriss. The two look at the work of ...

Bought by WJAB


  • Added: Nov 24, 2015
  • Length: 58:51
  • Purchases: 1
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Jim Johnson is the current and former poet laureate of Duluth not many poets laureate can say that. He's taught for three plus decades in the Dulu...

  • Added: Oct 29, 2015
  • Length: 02:44
Caption: Dan Fernandez with a fog-catcher in Santa Cruz. Writer Andrew Leonard sees in fog-catchers a real-world analog to the fictional dew-catchers of Dune., Credit: Jeremy Dalmas
The sci-fi epic of "Dune" takes place on a desert planet. There, the water in even a single tear is precious. Can Dune offer lessons for the drough...

Bought by PRX Remix


  • Added: Sep 30, 2015
  • Length: 20:00
  • Purchases: 1
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Poet, Athena Kildegaard, lives in prairie pothole country, her term for Morris, Minnesota, where she's a lecturer at the University of Minnesota. S...

  • Added: Sep 23, 2015
  • Length: 01:47
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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: Sep 09, 2015
  • Length: 01:40
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CarolAnn Russell is a Professor of English at Bemidji State University. She has published four full-length books of poetry. Russell has also been a...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:54
  • Purchases: 1
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead.

  • Added: Jul 30, 2015
  • Length: 01:27
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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 29, 2015
  • Length: 01:41
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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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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: 01:40
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Marjorie Buettner's new collection of haibun is "Some Measure of Existance" recently published by Red Dragonfly Press which has also published coll...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 02:17
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Cate Belleveau is a retired educator, who's written poetry and plays and a children's book. She's also the artistic director of the Mask & Rose Wom...

  • Added: Jan 22, 2015
  • Length: 01:50
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Jill Dermody is currently working on the third draft of her book, "The Skyrian Memoirs", about her experience volunteering on a horse farm in Greec...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Nov 28, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
  • Purchases: 1
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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: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 02:06
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The literal translation of Julia Helene Oxenreider is: Youthful, changing soft-haired sunlight riding ox. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Min...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 03:12
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Originally from the Finger Lakes area of New York state. She's a world traveler who settled in at the University of Michigan for her BFA degree in ...

  • Added: Jul 19, 2014
  • Length: 01:48
Caption: Gia Coppola, San Francisco, CA 5/2/14, Credit: Andrea Chase
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.

  • Added: May 16, 2014
  • Length: 08:56
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A tornado that devastated Fayetteville, Tennessee the week author Clint McCown was born is the setting for his latest award-winning novel, Haints.

Bought by WJCT and KVLU


  • Added: Jul 12, 2013
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 2
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First published in 1947, Goodnight Moon has become one of the most popular books for young children. Yet the book’s author, Margaret Wise Brown, al...

Bought by WJCT, XRAY.fm, WFHB, and KVLU


  • Added: Mar 25, 2013
  • Length: 28:59
  • Purchases: 4
Caption: Lovejoy Brook Farm, Credit: Jenny Attiyeh
From Thoreau's rural journal to the science of the mind to 36 arguments for the existence of God to classical music to the future of farming (whew!...

Bought by WGBH Radio Boston


  • Added: Feb 11, 2010
  • Length: 57:30
  • Purchases: 1
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Why do we get so much pleasure from movies that frighten us out of their wits?

Bought by WLPR , WXXI Rochester, WXXI Rochester, KXOT Public Radio, and Radio Catskill


  • Added: Oct 24, 2008
  • Length: 29:44
  • Purchases: 5