The Beat

Series produced by Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota

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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.


852 Pieces

Order by: Newest First | Oldest First
The Beat: LouAnn Shepard Muhm - "Copper"
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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: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:28
The Beat: Rebecca Dosch Brown - "Dead End Street"
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Anthony Swann - "The Blessing"
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Anthony Swann Has written a novel about jazz people in the Twin Cities in the early 1960's. He like physical books and coffeehouses. And Anthony Sw...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:53
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Sharon Harris - "Other Times"
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Sharon Harris is a member of the Jackpine Writer's Block, and a native of Park Rapids. She has published three books of poetry. The Beat is a daily...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Kevin Zepper - "Ghostwriting"
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Kevin Zepper is an Associate Professor of English at Minnesota State University - Moorehead. He was recently awarded a writing residency at Starry ...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:26
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Susan Carol Hauser - "Elegy For Bill Borden"
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Susan Carol Hauser is a poet, essayist, and natural history writer who recently retired from her position at Bemidji State University. She's won th...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Doris Stengel - "Tying Quilts"
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 02:42
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Juile Hart - "Momento Mori"
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Julie Hart grew up in Rochester, Minnesota. She went to Carlton College, and has been pursuing her education ever since...to the ends of the earth....

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  • Added: Oct 27, 2013
  • Length: 03:54
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Ann Niedringhaus - "Teenage Girl"
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Ann Niedringhaus is a Duluth poet who has been widely published in journals and anthologies. She belongs to a Duluth writers group that is currentl...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:48
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Erin Lynn Marsh - "How Not To Keep A Woman Happy"
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Erin Lynn Marsh has been published in Sugarhouse Review, Post Road Magazine, and Paper Darts. She holds an MFA from Lesley University in Boston, is...

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  • Added: Oct 25, 2013
  • Length: 01:45
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Charmaine Donovan - "Snapshot of An October Afternoon"
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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: Oct 24, 2013
  • Length: 01:54
The Beat: Charlie Pulkrabek - "In Bloom"
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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...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:17
The Beat: Tina Dybvik - "Thursday"
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Tina Dybvik occasionally sounds off in the Downtown St. Paul Voice, her verse has appeared in Huff/Post 50, the Meloncholy Dane Quarterly, and Iron...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:58
The Beat: Dennis Herschbach - "Cycles"
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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: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:10
The Beat: Bryan Daly - "Falling Into Fire"
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Brian Daly moved to Minnesota from Massachussetts in 2011. He's an artist and educator living in Minneapolis now. He writes poetry, and punk rock m...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 02:29
The Beat: Iman Mefleh - "Calling"
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Iman Mefleh, in her words, is a product of the Minnesota winter wonderland, born in a snowstorm in Minneapolis, and raised in a Lebanese-Scandinavi...

  • Added: Oct 21, 2013
  • Length: 01:36
The Beat: Brian Laidlaw - "The Dive At the End of the World"
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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...

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  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 02:10
  • Purchases: 1
The Beat: Ute Buehler - "Love"
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Born in Germany, Ute Buehler had a premonition at very young age that her destiny would be fulfilled elsewhere in the world. She's now a photograp...

  • Added: Oct 18, 2013
  • Length: 01:25
The Beat: Aaron Wenger - "First Frost"
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Aaron Wenger is a retired educator. He is an engineer that became an educator. He is Northern Community Radio's staff physicist, and a poet. The Be...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:31
The Beat: Eric Chandler - "I Can Already Hear It"
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Eric Chandler is a husband, father, F-16 Pilot, and cross-country skier who lives in Duluth. He's a member of Lake Superior Writers, and has been p...

  • Added: Oct 17, 2013
  • Length: 01:50