This collection encompasses 50-plus years of interviews, readings, speeches, and reports on the vibrant literary scene in Minnesota. Not only home to giants F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis, our state has an array of incredible contemporary poets, novelists and playwrights. Their words make up majority of this collection.
Repeatedly being named the “Most Literate City in the United States,” the Twin Cities has played host to numerous visiting national writers via book tours, festivals, and lectures. Many recordings of these are also included.
This project was funded by the National Historical Publications & Records Commission.
November 28, 1992 -
November 30, 1992 -
December 1, 1992 - MPR’s Joe Kelly reports on a Duluth public reading of poetry about people’s experiences with AIDS, sponsoed by Group Poetry Harbour.
December 1, 1992 -
December 2, 1992 - Homeward Bound by Elliott Hayes at Loring PlayhouseThe Velveteen Rabbit by Thomas Olson at The Children's TheatreBlack Nativity by Langston Hughes at Penumbra Theatre
December 4, 1992 -
December 4, 1992 -
December 4, 1992 -
December 4, 1992 -
December 5, 1992 - A Christmas music special. St. Paul Pioneer Press music critic Rick Shefchik reviews the latest releases for gift-givers and plays some seldom-heard seasonal treasures.