Mark Vinz

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• Award-winning poet Mark Vinz is retiring

  MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on Mark Vinz, a well-known Minnesota poet, retiring from the classroom.

  Apr. 26, 20073 minSave
• The Morning Show, live at The Centrum in Fargo-Moorhead

  A broadcast of MPR’s The Morning Show at The Centrum, located at Concordia College in Fargo-Moorhead. Program contains skits, interviews, performances, and readings.

  Jun. 22, 1992Save
• Regional writers Mark Vinz and Ron Block talk about importance of landscape

  MPR’s Paula Schroeder talks with rural poets Mark Vinz and Ron Block about how the regional landscape shapes their work. Both read poems during segment.

  Jun. 22, 19928 minSave
• A profile on the 10th Anniversary of Minnesota Voices Project Competition

  MPR’s Cathy Wurzer profiles the 10th Anniversary of Minnesota Voices Project Competition. Segment includes interviews with Catherine Meyer, managing editor of New Rivers Press; Sharon Oard Warner, author of Learning to Dance and Other Stories; and poet Mark Vinz, author of The Weird Kid.

  Feb. 7, 199213 minSave
• Thomas McGrath and Mark Vinz at Imagination 1973

  A broadcast of regional poets Thomas McGrath and Mark Vinz speaking at IMAGINATION 1973 in Fargo, North Dakota. McGrath and Vinz also read poems to the audience.

  Sep. 23, 197353 minSave
• Mark Vinz discusses and reads regional poetry

  MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews Midwestern poet Mark Vinz about regional poetry. Vinz reads his poems Heartland, Line Storm, and First Summer: A Reckoning.

  Aug. 8, 19736 minSave
• Mark Vinz discusses writing poetry and regionalism

  MPR’s Bill Siemering interviews poet Mark Vinz, editor of Dakota Territory. The interview is broken into three segments…use of regionalism in writing, young writers, and conflict/war. Vinz also reads numerous poems.

  Jun. 21, 1973Save