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The Beat: Gary Lee Joyner - "Snow Never Stops Falling"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Gary Lee Joyner is a musician, visual artist, and poet from the Twin Cities. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Mi...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 03:18
The Beat: Jon Dallas - "Emptying the Scrip"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Jon Dallas is a poet living in Chisholm, Minnesota. Jon's poetry has appeared in the New Orleans Review, Green Mountain Review, Antigonish Review, ...

  • Added: Feb 26, 2015
  • Length: 02:19
Jaipur Lit. Fest. 2015
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Kids singing at the Jaipur Lit. Fest.
Once if you wanted to be an Indian city of any standing, you were measured by flyovers, speciality hospitals or multiplexes. These days you are mea...

  • Added: Jan 27, 2015
  • Length: 06:00
The Beat: John Pula - "With or Without the E"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Mexican Bus Ride"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

  • Added: Dec 31, 2014
  • Length: 03:02
Episode One - Fan Mail
From: Binnie Klein
Series: The Thread: Conversations with Arts and Culture Makers
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In the age of texts, twitter and email, do people still write fan letters? What compels us to do so?

  • Added: Dec 24, 2014
  • Length: 29:40
Technology Brings Long-Silent Voices Of 20th Century Poets Back To Life
From: Curt Nickisch
Caption: A rendered image of the etched grooves of a record. IRENE software converts these squiggles to sound., Credit: Julie Martin/NEDCC Courtesy
A innovative technology to preserve endangered sound recordings without playing them (which would further damage them) is bringing the voices of po...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, WABE, KALW, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Dec 05, 2014
  • Length: 06:24
  • Purchases: 4
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Trickles of Faith"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

  • Added: Nov 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:30
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "Possibilities"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "Possibilities". The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota p...

  • Added: Oct 30, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
The Beat: Joyce Sutphen - "In Autumn"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Joyce Sutphen is Minnesota's Poet Laureate. Here Joyce Sutphen recites her poem, "In Autumn". The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetr...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio and KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 22, 2014
  • Length: 01:46
  • Purchases: 2
The Real Me
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: Bobby Cannavale
In the comic classic, MERE MORTALS by David Ives, a construction worker reveals he is secretly, actually the Lindbergh baby. Turns out his pals hav...

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), Connecticut Public (WNPR), KUNM, KZYX, Georgia Public Broadcasting and more


  • Added: Oct 08, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 9
The Beat: Anna Ingalls - "Untitled (Harbor)"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Anna Ingalls is a sophomore at Bemidji High School she enjoys writing poetry and especially poetry about the natural world. The Beat is a daily rem...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Oct 02, 2014
  • Length: 01:19
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Doris Stengel - " Lost Birthright"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:20
The Beat: Tim Brennan "Vanitas"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Tim J. Brennan has been a secondary English teacher for over 30 years. He writes, golfs and plays husband and dad in Austin, MN. The Beat is a da...

  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 02:03
The Birds and the Bees
From: Playing on Air
Series: Playing on Air Hour Length Episodes
Caption: William Jackson Harper
William Jackson Harper is a lascivious bee swarming a young woman’s Upper West Side apartment. Two vultures have a bone to pick with Saint Francis....

Bought by Connecticut Public (WNPR), New Hampshire Public Radio, Oregon Public Broadcasting, KZYX, and KUNM


  • Added: Sep 04, 2014
  • Length: 53:00
  • Purchases: 5
The Beat: CarolAnn Russell - "Gravity at Tivoli"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2014
  • Length: 01:36
The Death of Archie
From: KALW
Series: Sandip Roy's Dispatches from Kolkata
Caption: Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie", Credit: archiecomics.com
The Archie comic book character is as American as it gets. But in July of 2014 (Issue No. 36 of "Life With Archie") Archie dies. His death reverber...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 21, 2014
  • Length: 04:30
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "Effie,Mn is the Center of the Universe"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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
The Beat: Isabel Bakke - "The Golden Flower"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Isabel Bakke is an eighth grade student at School Craft Learning Community.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Jun 06, 2014
  • Length: 01:04
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Farhia Omar "Lone"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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Farhia Omar is a Minneapolis based artist who was born in Somalia. When she isn't writing poetry and stories she's designing jewelry. The Beat is...

  • Added: May 29, 2014
  • Length: 01:42
The Beat: Mark Christensen - "The Final Breath of a Pope"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: The Beat
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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...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Mar 07, 2014
  • Length: 01:27
  • Purchases: 1
Author George Saunders, Master of the Short Story
From: Diana Korte
Series: Booktalk
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George’s “The Tenth of December” has already appeared on many a best-book and award-finalist list. As we readers know, it's not every day that you ...

Bought by KCMJ Community Radio


  • Added: Jan 28, 2014
  • Length: 09:59
  • Purchases: 1
#4
From: Brian Bahouth
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #4.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:05
#5
From: Brian Bahouth
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #5.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
#6
From: Brian Bahouth
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Elise Rosen reads her untitled poem, #6.

  • Added: Jul 28, 2013
  • Length: 01:25