Welcome to the Minnesota Public Radio Archive
Below you will find ever evolving curated collections highlighting diverse, historically relevant, and special interest content. Each collection contains audio stories of a particular subject, represented in chronological order. Explore our state and its people!
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Poems, Poets, and Poetry
Poetry is an undercurrent in Minnesota. There are easily as many poets as there are lakes and they all meander different paths, like the state’s tributaries. The MPR Archive celebrates poetry by presenting a sampling of literary verse. Some are home-grown, such as Carol Connolly, Robert Bly, and Ed Bok Lee. Then there are the traveling wordsmiths, the likes of Donald Hall, Joy Harjo, and Nikki Giovanni, who’ve shared their work to an intrigued North Star State audience. This collection is as causal or deep as you wish to explore, just like the water.
Labor in Minnesota
Virtually every industry across the state of Minnesota from factory work to logging, to farming, to teaching has seen major shifts in the relations between workers and their employers over the past century. These changes didn’t happen on their own, they are the result of years of organized work and collective energy. In these stories from the MPR Archive you will hear from prominent local labor leaders, migrant and permanent laborers, and individuals who today are still striving to influence and improve the ways we work. Covering the history of labor rights and issues from the early 1900s to the present day we hope this collection will give you insight into the way our past has shaped our present.
Award Collection
Since our beginning, the stations and programs affiliated with Minnesota Public Radio and later American Public Media, have endeavored to create quality programming for the community and audiences we serve, in keeping with our mission of public service. We have been honored that so many of the talented individuals and teams and their programs have won prestigious industry and audience awards; the MPR Archive is proud to highlight and present these winners in a way that celebrate the award recipient along with the subjects, stories, and communities that demonstrate public media's meaning and impact.
