The Beat
Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
A daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Minnesota poets prove that every day.
This series features short poems by writers that have some connection to Minnesota. Some of these poets are alive, some are not. Some are well known, some are not.
Programming is supported by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
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Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...
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- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 01:46
- Purchases: 1
Dennis Herschbach is a northern Minnesota writer whose poems have won awards in national contests. He is also the author of a number of fiction and...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:50
Charmaine Donovan makes her living as a Chemical Dependency Counselor in the Brainerd area. She's a member of numerous regional and national writer...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 01:41
Doris Stengel grew up on the North Dakota prairie, and then moved to the woods and lakes of Minnesota. She's been a high school teacher and has men...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:12
Originally from the Finger Lakes area of New York state. She's a world traveler who settled in at the University of Michigan for her BFA degree in ...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:06
Mark Conway is a 2012 recipient of an artist initiative grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. And he is the Director of the Literary Arts Inst...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 02:03
Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 01:30
Sharon Chmielarz has been published in literary magazines nationwide. Chmielarz has published travel memoirs and three children's picture books. An...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 01:41
Gina Marie Bernard grew up in northern Minnesota and teaches high school english in Bemidji. She credits her mother and grandmother with teaching h...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 03:30
Julie Hathaway grew up on farm in southeastern Minnesota, and currently lives in Rochester. She's been writing for as long as she can remember, but...
- Added: Mar 27, 2014
- Length: 01:12
Charlie Pulkrabek is a writer and visual artist living in the Bemidji area. The Beat is a daily reminder that, in Minnesota poetry matters, and Min...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 02:08
- Purchases: 1
Julia Klatt-Singer writes, and paints, and walks the dog. Her work can be found online and heard on The Real Phonic Radio Hour. The Beat is a daily...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 01:17
- Purchases: 1
Mark Christensen is a published author, and a long time educator. He is Professor of English at Bemidji State University where is particular intere...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 01:27
- Purchases: 1
Mike Finley says about himself, "I'm a Minnesotan who has been writing forever. I seem to write poems that are simultaneously anxiety provoking and...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 01:59
Rebecca Dosch Brown is a recent Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant Awardee, and a Loft Mentor Program Mentee. She's had poems published in Ky...
- Added: Mar 07, 2014
- Length: 01:42
Born in Minneapolis,Minnesota Vivian Charlesworth is a video installation and new media artist. She obtained her BA in fine art and literature at S...
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- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:53
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Jesse Dermody lives in the woods north of Duluth in a cabin right next to his brother Ryan's cabin. Together they are the band The Brothers Burn Mo...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 02:47
Brian Laidlaw is a graduate of the University of Minnesota MFA program in poetry. He lives in the Twin Cities, and teaches songwriting at McNally S...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:47
LouAnn Shepard Muhm is a widely published poet and teacher living in northern Minnesota. She has been featured in the mnartists.org series "What Li...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:26
Teresa Evangeline spends her days on a little piece of land along the Pine River observing and experiencing the beauty of the world. Then, through...
- Added: Feb 28, 2014
- Length: 01:34
