Digitization made possible by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
January 18, 1980 -
February 1, 1980 -
February 4, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews George White, director of O'Neill Theater Center, about Eugene O'Neill's play "A Touch of the Poet."
February 7, 1980 - Representative Jim Wright (D-Texas), House Majority Leader, speaks to the national press club about synthetic fuel production and other issues.
February 8, 1980 - Novelist Tim O'Brien's book "Going After Cacciato", inspired by his tour of duty in Vietnam during the war, won the national book award for fiction last year. O'Brien reads from his current work, "The Nuclear Age", when he was at Worthington Community College.
February 25, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews poet and activist Marge Piercy. Segment also includes Piercy reading two of her poems.
March 1, 1980 - The Milkweed Chronicle is not a run-of-the-mill newspaper; it is printed on stiff, durable paper and contains poems and illustrations. The paper has just published its first issue. Guests are Nancy Keating (business manager), Emilie Buchwald (editor) and Randy Scholes (art director).
March 6, 1980 -
March 7, 1980 -
March 7, 1980 - Part of the Walker Arts Center series on Modernism. The speech presents challenges faced by the writer, the reader, and the critic. Literary critic Hugh Kenner discusses the meanings of modernism.