Materials created/edited/published by Archive team as an assigned project during remote work period in 2020
September 1, 1973 - Minnesota poet Robert Bly lectures about the importance of reading poetry aloud, starting with Homer, and feeling poetry vs. knowing it.
September 2, 1973 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence reports on Jane VanDeusen, a Minnesota registered nurse, running for mayor on a health care platform as part of the Socialists Workers Party ticket.
September 2, 1973 - Gretchen Kreuter, president of Women Historians of the Midwest, and others discuss the organization’s support in women who teach history and want to advance status of women in history professions and also expand public perception of women's role in history.
September 4, 1973 - MPR’s Dulcie Lawrence interviews labor movement leaders Myrtle Harris, Nellie Stone Johnson, and Ann Lewis. The three talk about changes unions have brought about for women in the American workplace.
September 6, 1973 - Poet Jim Moore compares Walt Whitman's "The Role of the Poet" with the poetry of Tom McGrath, specifically the "Letter to an Imaginary Friend." Moore reads aloud from both poems.
September 17, 1973 - MPR’s Paul Gruchow reports on U.S. Senator Walter Mondale’s speech on the congressional floor about abuses of Nixon administration.
September 18, 1973 - Vine Deloria Jr., a treaties expert and author of "In Utmost Good Faith" and "We Talk, You Listen," talks with Kevin McKiernan. Topics include religion, treaties, and Wounded Knee.
October 2, 1973 - MPR’s Paul Grochow report highlights an exhibit on early John Berryman manuscripts that are on display at the University of Minnesota. Report includes comments from Berryman’s publishing friend, Robert Giroux, who speaks about the fickle nature of publishing.
October 8, 1973 - Architect and theorist Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller speaks on the discovery of the eternal pattern operative in the universe.
November 19, 1973 - MER Special presenting a tribute to poet Pablo Neruda. Program contains various readings and commentary of Neruda’s work performed by Robert Bly and others.