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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May 15, 1992 - August Wilson, Barbara Field, Tom Dunn, Erik Brogger, Lee Blessing, Steven Dietz, Kevin Kling, John Olive, David Moore
May 15, 1992 - On this Voices from the Heartland episode, MPR’s Marlana Benzie-Lourey talks with central Minnesota poet Jerry Hansen about his time serving during Vietnam War, and his poetry about that experience. Hansen also reads numerous poems.
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May 21, 1992 - Your Accountability is Overdrawn at the Brave New Workshop; The Neverbe Brothers at The Padded Cellar;and Kim Hines play Do Not Pass Go at Illusion Theater