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.
January 21, 1995 -
January 21, 1995 -
January 27, 1995 -
January 27, 1995 -
February 2, 1995 - MPR’s Catherine Winter interviews Duluth poet Barton Sutter about his style of poetry and writing process. Segment includes Sutter reading from one of his books.
February 7, 1995 -
February 13, 1995 - On this pledge drive Midday program, a rebroadcast of MPR documentary "Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing." Frances Densmore was a Red Wing woman who recorded the songs of Native Americans around the turn of the century.
February 17, 1995 - NPR’s award-winning author Tom Gjelten discusses his book "Sarajevo Daily: A City and Newspaper Under Siege." Gjelten also answers listener questions.
February 27, 1995 - MPR’s Tom Meersman talks with Nothando Zulu, a master storyteller and member of the Minnesota Black Storytellers Alliance. Zulu shares her thoughts on the cultural and historical importance of storytelling and provides some illustrative examples.
March 1, 1995 - Frances Moore Lappe speaking at the Westminster Town Hall Forum. Speech titled "Rebuilding Our Nation, Remaking Our Lives".