March 8, 1980 - MPR’s Nancy Fushan profiles and interviews poet and novelist Marge Piercy.
April 9, 1980 - While on a tour of the upper Midwest, Twelve Moons Storytellers Gayle Ross and Liz Ollis, join MPR's Rich Dietman in studio in St. Paul to tell several Appalachian, Native American, and other stories. The duo talk about different kinds of stories, how to tell them, and answer listener questions about stories.
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.