March 5, 1993 - This First Friday program segment presents Isabell Monk, member of Guthrie Theater acting company, reading from Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo.
March 5, 1993 - This First Friday program segment presents an essay by filmmaker Kathleen Swan on the hanging of Ann Bilansky.
March 10, 1993 - American poet and novelist Julia Alvarez reads from How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.
March 11, 1993 - Gary Harm, grand-nephew of Minnesota artist and children’s book author Wanda Gág, reads Millions of Cats. Millions of Cats won the 1929 Newbery Honor and remains one of the oldest American picture books still in print.
March 12, 1993 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, northern Minnesota writer Barton Sutter reads his essay, Sister City, which is about the Duluth sister city Superior, Wisconsin.
March 13, 1993 - This Weekend Edition segment presents Isabell Monk, member of Guthrie Theater acting company, reading the scene "Indigo Gets Her Period" from Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo.
March 15, 1993 - An All Things Considered interview with American writer Dorothy Allison about her book, Bastard Out of Carolina. The focus of conversation is on abuse and the family network.
March 18, 1993 - American writer Natalie Goldberg reads from her book, Long Quiet Highway: Waking Up in America. This reading excerpt reflects on Zen master Katagiri Roshi.
March 18, 1993 - MPR’s Beth Friend profiles Abraham Rodriguez’s Spidertown: A Novel. Segment includes interview with Rodriguez and reading from book by the author.
March 19, 1993 - Playwright Lauren Nickisch reads from her one-woman production based on the life of Northern Minnesota pioneer woman Hephzibeth Merritt, Nickisch's great-great-great-grandmother.