December 24, 2007 - A memorial service is being planned for early next year for Carol Bly. She died of ovarian cancer on Friday at the age of 77. Bly is being remembered as an exemplary writer and an excellent mother. She was a fiction writer, essayist and creative writingA memorial service is being planned for early next year for Carol Bly. She died of ovarian cancer on Friday at the age of 77. Bly is being remembered as an exemplary writer and an excellent mother . She was a fiction writer, essayist and creative writing teacher. Carol Bly was born in Duluth, but spent part of her childhood living with her aunts in rural North Carolina because her mother was often hospitalized. Bly talked about her mother during an interview with Dan Olson in March of 1999.
May 9, 1997 - From "I've Always Meant to Tell You: Letters to Our Mothers - An Anthology of Contemporary Women Writers." Edited by Constance Warloe. Published by Pocket Books, 1997.
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March 27, 1995 - Includes interviews with MPR staff on grammar pet peeves.
October 13, 1994 - Noted Minnesota author Carol Bly comments on Kenzaburō Ōe, winner of 1994 Nobel Prize for Literature. Bly shares her thoughts on writing that contains a social component.
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September 18, 1989 - MPR’s Tom Meersman reports on thriving Minnesota presses publishing poetry, essays, and other literature. Meersman interviews members of Milkweed Editions and Graywolf Press, who state that strong audiences are behind the positive literary business climate.