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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...]
Marian Hassan discusses the importance of poems and proverbs to Somali
culture, her oral history work with the Sing Along Project, and her experience
as a writer witnessing Operation Metro Surge take place in her hometown. [Read Transcript...]
Bao Phi talks about growing up in South Minneapolis, writing Asian American
history into children’s literature, and the impact of Black, Native, Asian
American, Latinx, and SWANA writers’ work on Minnesota. [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...]
