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Julie Otsuka’s first novel When the Emperor Was Divine explores her family’s history in the Japanese-American internment camps during World War II.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 28:30
- Purchases: 1
In Japan, insects (or "mushi") are pets, medicine, and even vehicles for spirits. Plus: A robot that kills ticks. And: A poem about the insect know...
Bought by WJCT, WDBM, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, WLIW, WMNF and more
- Added: Jul 11, 2014
- Length: 28:59
- Purchases: 6
Nancy Schoenberger chronicles the tempestuous romance of Liz & Dick in her book Furious Love: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and the Marriage of...
- Added: Jul 03, 2014
- Length: 53:58
- Purchases: 4
Nikki Anderson-Weir, a high school student from Bemidji first read on the Beat last year and was one of the readers in the first Beat Cafe. This ye...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jun 27, 2014
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 1
A stirring collection of patriotic music performed throughout U.S.
history by African Americans, sometimes in the face of public
hostility. Also, s...
- Added: Jun 21, 2014
- Length: 53:55
- Purchases: 4
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
Bought by WABE
- Added: Jun 08, 2014
- Length: 28:56
- Purchases: 1
Josiah Bakke is a seventh grader at School Craft Learning Community. He may seem quiet and shy but get him on stage and he'll surprise you. A natur...
- Added: Jun 06, 2014
- Length: 01:28
Louise Fouqerel-Skoe is a sixth grader and has attended Schoolcraft Learning Community since kindergarten. She likes to write and act and has a spe...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 01:43
The author discusses the latest Big Read pick, The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears, his novel about an Ethiopian exile in a gentrifying Washingt...
- Added: May 29, 2014
- Length: 28:29
- Purchases: 2
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 28:59
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: May 22, 2014
- Length: 28:59
Gia Coppola talks collaboration, going with her gut, and using dreams as tools.
- Added: May 16, 2014
- Length: 08:56
AnnaMae Sovick's first graders at Schoolcraft Learning Community spent a semester learning all about food and why people eat what they eat. Then th...
- Added: May 14, 2014
- Length: 01:38
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...
Bought by WJCT, KVNF, WLIW, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., and WMNF
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 29:00
- Purchases: 5
Yoko Ono is best known for her marriage to John Lennon and was vilified by the press in the 1960s for her perceived role in the breakup of the Beat...
- Added: May 09, 2014
- Length: 53:57
- Purchases: 2
An interview with MMA fighter and poet Carlo Matos, plus work from issue 7.1
- Added: May 08, 2014
- Length: 17:17
This episode we highlight contributors to issue 7.5 including an interview with National Book Award Finalist, poet Matt Rasmussen.
- Added: May 07, 2014
- Length: 16:47
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: May 03, 2014
- Length: 28:59
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: Apr 25, 2014
- Length: 01:44
First Draft highlights the voices of writers as they discuss their work, their craft and the literary arts. This week's show features an interview...
- Added: Apr 20, 2014
- Length: 28:57
Dr. Stephen Palumbi discusses The Extreme Life of the Sea.
Bought by WMUU-LP, KKWE Niijii Radio, KFOK-LPFM, and KPVL
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 25:16
- Purchases: 4
Poet, Writer and Spoken-Word Performer David Mura uses his considerable talents as a poet, novelist, memoirist and performer to explore what it me...
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 16, 2014
- Length: 27:29
- Purchases: 1
With a trunk full of her mother’s saris, Kenyan author and performer Shaija Patel reclaims a lost history.
Bought by KPIP-LP
- Added: Apr 11, 2014
- Length: 29:28
- Purchases: 1
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 11, 2014
- Length: 01:55
