April 8, 1993 - MPR’s Kate Moos reads James Wright’s beloved poem, A Blessing. The poem is based on an actual experience James Wright had whilst driving home one late afternoon with his friend Robert Bly, a fellow poet. They had pulled off the highway and stopped to admire two ponies.
April 8, 1993 - An All Things Considered interview with Andrew Vachss, American crime fiction author, child protection consultant, and attorney. Vachss talks about characters from his novel, Shella, and his fight against horrific abuse of children.
April 9, 1993 - MPR’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Sandra Haldeman, editor of Papier-Mache Press, about “If I Had My Life to Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies.” Haldeman talks about aging and details impetus in putting together the book.
April 12, 1993 - A Midmorning interview with writer Deborah Jiang-Stein about the various workshops she leads for women writers in prison, including one at Federal Prison Camp, Alderson, in West Virginia.
April 14, 1993 - W. Scott Olsen, Fargo-Moorhead author of the book, Meeting the Neighbors: Sketches of Life on the Northern Prairie, gives his impressions and insights of small-town America via research in rural western Minnesota.
April 14, 1993 - American actor and author Gregory Alan Williams discusses directing his play adaptation of Evelyn Fairbanks’ The Days of Rondo book. The play is being staged at Great American History Theatre in St. Paul.
April 14, 1993 - Local theater critic Erin Hart reviews Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal. The play is being staged at Frank Theatre in Minneapolis.
April 16, 1993 - A Midmorning Edition conversation with Jane Yolen, an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. Topics include writing differences for genres and her books, including Letting Swift River Go.
April 16, 1993 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, MPR’s Mike Edgerly reads from The Wilderness Letter by Wallace Stegner.
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