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.
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April 1, 1996 - This year's cross country ski season has been extraordinarily long. In northern Minnesota, people are still out on the trails and that suits commentator Gary Eustice just fine. Gary Eustice skis near his hometown of Hibbing. He recently made an unexpected discovery on the trail.
April 6, 1996 - MPR’s Greta Cunningham takes a talking tour of Quatrefoil Library, the gay & lesbian library in the Twin Cities. Cunningham interviews David Irwin and Dick Hewetson, who discuss the origin of library.
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April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne of his early career in the arts, his travels to China, and his new work.
April 15, 1996 - On this segment of Voices of Minnesota, MPR’s Dan Olson sits down with one of our region's best known poets Michael Dennis Browne in his home to talk about his life and poetry.