May 8, 1993 - A reading from Native American author Louise Erdrich’s The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year. The book is a meditation on the experience of motherhood and the first nonfiction work by Erdrich.
May 14, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on spring cleaning and remembrances, titled Ghost of a Good Bad Man.
May 21, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Twin Cities author and teacher Judith Hougen reads her essay, Summer on Lake Minnetonka.
May 28, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, American novelist Kaye Gibbons reads from her book, Charms for the Easy Life.
June 11, 1993 - On this Voices from the Heartland segment, Minnesota author Barton Sutter reads his essay on a first canoe ride remembrance, titled Dream Canoe.
June 16, 1993 - MPR’s Karen Boothe interviews poet and editor Carolyn Forché, who shares insights into putting together Against Forgetting: Twentieth-century Poetry of Witness, an anthology of 140 poets writing on war, torture, exile, and repression.
June 18, 1993 - On this segment of Voices from the Heartland, American essayist Barry Lopez reads from his book, Crow and Weasel.
June 19, 1993 - A Weekend Edition interview with Minnesota writer Jim Heynen, author of The One-Room Schoolhouse: Stories About the Boys. Segment includes a discussion on imagery and reading of "The Hike,” a story from the book.
June 24, 1993 - Sally MacDonald, of Playwrights Center; and Ross Miller, a 14-year-old playwright, talk about local Young Playwrights Summer conference, sponsored by Playwrights Center and St. Thomas University.
June 25, 1993 - Voices from the Heartland segment presents local educator and author Judith Hougen reading her poem, Coming of Age.