April 4, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, an interview and reading with writer and artist George Hitchcock. New Letters on the Air is an audio literary magazine exploring the works of American writers and comes from New Letters magazine, a literary quarterly of fine writing published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
March 21, 1981 - On this episode of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, a profile of poet John Knoepfle, who talks briefly about his poetry and reads a number of his poems, including those entitled “After Gray Days,” “Pilgrims' Day,” and a found poem based on speech by an old chief of the Winnebago Indians in 1836.
February 28, 1981 - This episode of KCUR’s New Letters on the Air is devoted to the work of California writer Kenneth Rexroth.
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.
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.