March 5, 1994 - MPR’s Chris Roberts interviews former Minnesota U.S. Senator Eugene McCarthy on his thoughts of poetry and politics.
March 10, 1994 - MPR’s Tom Meersman talks with Faroese poet Roy Paterson, who discusses the Faroe Islands and of keeping tradition of culture. Paterson reads a poem in both English and in Faroese.
March 11, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota travel writer John Shepard reads Fire and Heat at Prairie Island, an essay on Shepard’s visit to Joe Campbell’s home, located within the Prairie Island Indian community and near a radioactive power plant.
March 17, 1994 - On this Midmorning segment, Irish-American teacher and writer Frank McCourt reads “Ham and Sherry" from Angela's Ashes: A Memoir. The book is tragicomic recollection of McCourt’s childhood experience of squalor.
March 17, 1994 - MPR’s John Rabe interviews Irish poet Micheal O'Siadhail about writing poetry and personal expression. Segment also includes O'Siadhail reading numerous poems.
March 18, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Twin Cities native and author Susan Carol Hauser reads her essay on the signs of late winter/early spring in Minnesota.
March 23, 1994 - Morning Edition’s Bob Potter talks with Edina author Sandra Benitez, won the Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers award for A Place Where the Sea Remembers. Benitez also reads from book.
March 31, 1994 - In a Midmorning interview, American writer Gary Paulsen talks about dog sledding and his book, Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod.
April 8, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Minnesota travel writer John Shepard shares an essay of what one can see on the backroads and small highways of Minnesota.
April 22, 1994 - On this installment of Voices from the Heartland, Duluth writer Barton Sutter reads his essay God's Own Ice Rink. Sutter recounts his ice skating excursion onto a frozen Lake Superior, where he encounters black ice and an unlucky fisherman.