April 12, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles and interviews poet Galway Kinnell.
April 22, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews poet Faye Kicknosway, an attendee at the Midwest Writers Festival. Segment also includes reading form Kicknosway.
April 23, 1980 - Nancy Fushan profiles poet Jerald Bullis. Segment includes an interview and reading with writer. Bullis’ poetry are literary portraits of his intrinsic relationship with nature.
April 25, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice. Segment also includes Justice reading his poetry.
May 8, 1980 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice, who talks about writing poetry and reads some of his poems.
October 9, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan reports on a Milkweed Chronicle project that puts dance to poet Keith Gunderson’s Baja Journal. Fushan interviews the author and choreographer.
December 20, 1980 - This holiday episode of Letters on the Air, a KCUR literary program, contains several Christmas readings.
December 26, 1980 - A presentation of excerpts from 1980 Minnesota Writers Conference, held in Rochester. Part two features remarks by writers Michael Dennis-Browne, Carol Bly, Judith Guest, and John Judson. Beryl Byman was the writer, producer and director of program.
January 3, 1981 - Cyrus Colter, an African American novelist and short story writer reads the story A Chance Meeting from his award-winning short-fiction collection, The Beach Umbrella, in a live recording at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
January 8, 1981 - MPR's Nancy Fushan interviews poet Howard Nemerov, who reads from his works and explains some of his views of modern American poetry.