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.
March 4, 1994 -
March 5, 1994 -
March 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy on his thoughts of poetry and politics.
March 8, 1994 -
March 10, 1994 - MPR’s Tom Meersman talks with Faroese poet Roy Paterson, who discusses the Faroe Islands and of keeping tradition of culture. Paterson reads a poem in both English and in Faroese.
March 11, 1994 - A year and a half ago I spent a couple of hot August days camped out at Prairie Island. Actually, the shelter provided by the trailer home in Joe Campbell's back yard might not exactly qualify as camping, but it certainly was at the heart of Prairie Island/
March 12, 1994 -
March 15, 1994 - Erin Hart reviews the Tony Award play "Dancing at Lughnasa".
March 17, 1994 -
March 17, 1994 -