A selection of programs and series throughout the decades that were broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio.
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January 13, 1993 - A conversation with poet and literary critic Dana Gioia, author of Can Poetry Matter?: Essays on Poetry and American Culture. Gioia describes the slowing interest on poetry in popular culture.
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January 14, 1993 - MPR’s John Biewen reports that Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (Corporation) has pulled MECC software program “Freedom!” video game after criticism from students and schools, finding it racially inappropriate. The program simulates the attempt by African slaves to escape from an 1830s southern plantation via the Underground Railroad.
January 14, 1993 - MPR’s Mike Maus interviews Korean American author Marie Myung-Ok Lee. The Hibbing native talks about her book, Finding My Voice. Lee also discusses dealing with racism.
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January 15, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer interviews Anthony Signorelli and Paul Macadam, editors of Rooster Crows at Light from the Bombing: Echoes from the Gulf War, published by Inroads Press (Minneapolis, MN). Poet Thomas R. Smith, from River Falls, Wisconsin, also takes part in conversation.
January 15, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Stillwater author Dee Ready reads from A Cat's Life: Dulcy's Story. The work is centers on the life of a beloved cat…told from the cat's point of view.