Collection
New Letters on the Air
In the 1980s, MPR briefly broadcast New Letters on the Air, an audio literary magazine exploring the works of American writers. Series came from New Letters magazine, a literary quarterly of fine writing published at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
13 Collection Items
- John Ciardi - Why Read? / Ciardi reads on New Letters on the Air
Midday presents the late John Ciardi delivering an address called "Why Read?" Following speech, a segment of New Letters on the Air with Ciardi reading some of his poetry (The Collectors; The Glory; Happiness; For Myra, John L. and Benn; Mutterings; Obsolescence; Habitat; and Perversity).
- New Letters on the Air: George Hitchcock
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.
- New Letters on the Air: John Knoepfle
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.
- New Letters on the Air: Fathers
On this edition of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, readings of the work of various writers with a focus on fathers.
- New Letters on the Air: Kenneth Rexroth
This episode of KCUR’s New Letters on the Air is devoted to the work of California writer Kenneth Rexroth.
- New Letters on the Air: Philip Levine
On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Philip Levine is profiled. Levine reads his poems and discusses his childhood in Detroit, the setting of many of his poems, as well as his experience in post-Franco Spain.
- New Letters on the Air: E. L. Mayo
On this edition of New Letters on the Air, the late poet E.L. Mayo is profiled. Mayo is considered a poet's poet.
- New Letters on the Air: Molly Peacock
On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet-in-residence for the state of Delaware Molly Peacock reads her work.
- New Letters on the Air: James McConkey
On this edition of the KCUR program Letters on the Air, James McConkey reads from his novel The Treehouse Confessions, published by Dutton.
- New Letters on the Air: Gary Gildner
On this edition of New Letters on the Air, poet Gary Gildner reads his works dealing with growing up in America.