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Minnesota's Community Radio Stations
Former Minneapolis Poet Laureate Heid Erdrich discusses her Poetry Service
Announcement project, how Minnesotan poets use their voices for change,
and the role BIPOC writers play not only in creating beauty, but also work that serves people. [Read Transcript...]
Alexs Pate discusses the process of editing Blues Vision: African American
Writing from Minnesota, how the state’s literary community has evolved since
the 1980’s, and writing his upcoming novel, Black Arrow. [Read Transcript...]
Hosts Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura discuss the publishing industry’s ebb and flow of platforming BIPOC authors, but the often lack of long-term, deep investment. [Read Transcript...]
Hosts Carolyn Holbrook and David Mura discuss their 2021 anthology, We Are Meant to Rise: Voices for Justice from Minneapolis to the World, and how Minnesota’s BIPOC authors have influenced culture and social change. [Read Transcript...]
