January 11, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Gary Gildner reads his works dealing with growing up in America.
January 24, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet-in-residence for the state of Delaware Molly Peacock reads her work.
January 31, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, the late poet E.L. Mayo is profiled. Mayo is considered a poet's poet.
February 12, 1981 - Stanley Kiesel, poet in residence for Minneapolis Schools, talks with MPR’s Dan Olson about education, poetry, and his new book, The War Between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids.
February 21, 1981 - On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Philip Levine is profiled. Levine reads his poems and discusses his childhood in Detroit, the setting of many of his poems, as well as his experience in post-Franco Spain.
March 10, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 2 (Coming to New York). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s, recounting the experiences of immigrants to New York City.
March 11, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 3 (The Union Spirit). Program features workers stories of their union activities: Morse code operators, radiomen on merchant ships…and one tale relates an organized hair bobbing that was sparked by the firing of a junior nurse for showing up at work with bobbed hair.
March 12, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 4 (Magic and Medicine). Program includes a collection of interviews on unpublished materials collected in the 1930's by the Federal Writers' Project, where New Yorkers talk about witch doctors, herbalists, and ambulance drivers.
March 13, 1981 - The Radio Project presents Vanished Voices: New Yorkers in the Thirties, part 5 (Romance of the City). Program includes a collection of interviews based on unpublished materials collected by the Federal Writers' Project in the 1930's, where people of New York talk about friendships, romance, and the American Dream.
March 14, 1981 - On this edition of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, readings of the work of various writers with a focus on fathers.