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Where poets read their own work every weekday. It includes both established poets and students as writers and readers. The Beat Cafe is an associated live and broadcast performance.
 
This program is supported in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
 
Archive: 
2013-05-17 Louis Jenkins: Insects
2013-05-16 Iman Mefleh: January 16th, 2013
2013-05-15 Chris Julson: My Last Valentine
2013-05-14 Mike Rollin: Summer
2013-05-13 Julia Klatt-Singer: Mistaken For Stars
2013-05-10 Louis Jenkins: Walking Through A Wall
2013-05-09 Ellie Schoenfeld Chicken Farmer Barbie
2013-05-08 Susan Koefod: Singed
2013-05-07 Charmaine Donovan: Introduction To the Cemetery
2013-05-06 Doris Stengel: Mielke Family Cemetery
2013-05-03 Louis Jenkins: Confessional Poem
2013-05-02 Dallas Crow: The Holy Order of Fish Handlers
2013-05-01 Melissa Fletcher: Dressing Up Like Birds
2013-04-30 Ed Dallas: Hanging On
2013-04-29 Rebecca Dosch Brown: Skating Both Worlds
2013-04-26 Gary Lee Joyner: Mr. & Mrs. Filigree
2013-04-25 Doris Stengel: Buried Talent
2013-04-24 Louis Jenkins: The Fishing Lure
2013-04-23 Wendell Affield: Streams
2013-04-22 Liz Minette: November
2013-04-19 Gary Lee Joyner: Cricket
2013-04-18 Connie Wanek: Honey
2013-04-17 Susan Hensel: Animal Dreams
2013-04-16 Bill Caldwell: My Infinity Dive
2013-04-15 Todd Boss: To Wait
2013-04-12 Ann Niedringhaus: Friendship
2013-04-11 Ryan Vine: On the Jetty
2013-04-10 Julia Oxenreider: Numb
2013-04-09 Kevin Zepper: Monarchs
2013-04-08 Julia Klatt-Singer: The Fall After
2013-04-05 Louis Jenkins: Fish Out of Water
2013-04-04 Susan Carol Hauser: Anniversary
2013-04-03 Yahya Fredrickson: Snappers
2013-04-02 Liz Minette: On Solstice
2013-04-01 Gary Lee Joyner: I Itch
2013-03-29 Susan Hensel: Beached
2013-03-28 Dallas Crow: Playing Ping Pong with My Son
2013-03-27 Patricia Kirkpatrick: Survivor's Guilt
2013-03-26 Todd Boss: Today It Seemed I Had Nothing To Say
2013-03-25 Charmaine Donovan: Welcoming the Storm
2013-03-22 Joyce Sutphen: Girl On A Tractor
2013-03-21 Marsh Muirhead: Snowbirds In Black and White
2013-03-20 Carol Ann Russell: Italian Men and Gold
2013-03-19 Mark Christensen: The Next Class
2013-03-18 Anthony Swann: These Are My People
2013-03-15 Joyce Sutphen: H
2013-03-14 Erin Lynn Marsh: I Try To Imagine Eva Braun
2013-03-13 Charlie Pulkrabek: The Second Dark Age, Number One
2013-03-12 LouAnn Shepard Muhm: Monologue
2013-03-11 Dean Brooks: On the Shore
2013-03-08 Sharon Chmielarz: Wonder Woman At 70
2013-03-07 Gary Boelhower: Centering
2013-03-06 Bill Caldwell: You Mother
2013-03-05 Kevin Zepper: Autumn Daughter
2013-03-04 Julia Klatt-Singer: Tangle
2013-03-01 Carol Ann Russell: Poets of the Non-Catholic Cemetary
2013-02-28 Julia Oxenreider: Blowhole
2013-02-27 Mark Christensen: Crutches
2013-02-26 Susan Carol Hauser: Guests At the Table
2013-02-25 Nikki Anderson-Weir: Untitled
2013-02-22 Ryan Vine: Psalm At Last Call
2013-02-21 Linda Back McKay: Chicken Without A Cause
2013-02-20 Francine Sterle: Consider Pa Ling
2013-02-19 Mike Forbes: Coming Into Leaving
2013-02-18 CarolAnn Russell: Things We Talk About At Home
2013-02-15 Doris Stengel: Vernon's White Onions
2013-02-14 Danny Klecko: I Love You Jane Goodall
2013-02-13 Michelle Mathees: Iconic
2013-02-12 CarolAnn Russell: Carnival
2013-02-11 Julie Gard: Tiny Plastic Mouse
2013-02-08 Connie Wanek: Artificial Tears
2013-02-07 Todd Boss: Blind
2013-02-06 Susan Hensel: Ophelia's Dream
2013-02-05 Charles Pulkrabek: Elbow Grease
2013-02-04 Patricia Kirkpatrick: Vision Test
2013-02-01 Marsh Muirhead: Super Bowl
2013-01-31 Susan Hauser: If You Were Here
2013-01-30 Dallas Crow: The Aesthetics of Gravity
2013-01-29 Tami Brown: The Poet Robert Bly Gives His Annual Saint Valentines Day Reading To the Town of Moose Lake, Minnesota, Population 1207
2013-01-28 Gail Rixen: Shell River
2013-01-25 Mary Finch: Let Me Enter Into Your Dwelling
2013-01-24 Charmaine Donovan: Bad Boy's Blue Shoes Shuffle
2013-01-23 Dean Brooks: Ruins
2013-01-22 Francine Sterle: Two Fox Running
2013-01-21 Mike Forbes: Fall Lake
2013-01-18 LouAnn Shepard Muhm: Shoveling Out
2013-01-17 Cheryl Wilke: Sea Crow
2013-01-16 Sharon Harris: Will You Stay
2013-01-15 Marsh Muirhead: Thin Ice
2013-01-14 Jon Dallas: As I Was Trying To Say
2013-01-11 Aaron Wenger: Winter Song
2013-01-10 Julie Gard: Kalevala
2013-01-09 Bill Caldwell: Dog Days
2013-01-08 Muriel Keaveny: Masks
2013-01-07 Yahya Fredrickson: Spawn
2013-01-04 Ann Niedringhaus: Vigils
2013-01-03 Anthony Swann: Blue Trailings (Parker's Road Song)
2013-01-02 Joyce Sutphen: Riding the Highway With Emily
2013-01-01 Doris Stengel: Recycling
2012-12-31 CarolAnn Russell: Limoncello
2012-12-28 Athena Kildegaard: On Juggler Lake
2012-12-27 Mark Christensen: Jackpine
2012-12-26 Lorie Yourd: After Hearing About the Rain
2012-12-25 Danny Klecko: 124 Degrees
2012-12-24 Robert Jevne: O Christmas Tree
2012-12-21 Sharon Harris: The Chances I Never Took
2012-12-20 Michelle Matthees: Vladivostok Apartment
2012-12-19 Gary Boelhower: Blueberry Picking
2012-12-18 Julie Gard: Ticks
2012-12-17 Dean Brooks: Others
2012-12-14 Linda Back McKay: Heron
2012-12-13 Sharon Chmielarz: Fruit Closet
2012-12-12 Charlie Pulkrabek: Lose the Rat Race
2012-12-11 Charmaine Donovan: Snow Gray Silence
2012-12-10 Kevin Zepper: Fossils
2012-12-07 Doris Stengel: Grandma Walked Wide
2012-12-06 Chris Julson: Along the Road Home
2012-12-05 Muriel Keaveny: Doorways In the Day
2012-12-04 Ron Frannea: At First Glance . . .
2012-12-03 Cheryl Wilke: My Neighbors Up North
2012-11-30 Danny Klecko: 13 Years Old
2012-11-29 Mike Finley: Toggle
2012-11-28 Erin Lynn Marsh: How Not To Fall In Love
2012-11-27 Marsh Muirhead: Navigating
2012-11-26 CarolAnn Russell: A Return
2012-11-23 Mike Finley: Old Girlfriends
2012-11-22 Mary Finch: Let Me Introduce You To the Mine Pit
2012-11-21 Jon Dallas: Women and Their Boys Flying
2012-11-20 Joyce Sutphen: Arrangement In Gray and Black
2012-11-19 LouAnn Shepard Muhm: Waitress
2012-11-16 Francine Sterle: Consider Lu Chang
2012-11-15 Roberta Tietge: Clocking Out
2012-11-14 Athena Kildegaard: Untitled Love Poem
2012-11-13 Mike Finley: Is There NASCAR In Heaven
2012-11-12 Michelle Matthees: Pink Horizon In Siberia
2012-11-09 Anna Ingalls: Untitled
2012-11-08 Nikki Anderson-Weir: Untitled
2012-11-07 Anna Ingalls: Untitled
2012-11-06 Nikki Anderson-Weir: My Deepest Truths
2012-11-05 Anna Ingalls: If You Looked
2012-11-02 Todd Boss: Dream In Perfect Color Though I Might
2012-11-01 Todd Boss: Dunes
2012-10-31 Deborah Cooper: Tikkun (Hebrew for: mending the world; divine sparks)
2012-10-30 Deborah Cooper: Through the Night
2012-10-29 Sheila Packa: Memento
2012-10-26 Anthony Swann: Beethoven Mad In the Streets
2012-10-25 Anne Dunn: A Poem In Honor of Paul Wellstone
2012-10-24 Mary Finch: Let's Go On A Lark Together
2012-10-23 Amy Clark: Plains
2012-10-22 Jon Dallas: The Haloed Moon and Storm to Come
2012-10-19 Mike Forbes: Free Range
2012-10-18 Sonja Kosler: Resting Place
2012-10-17 Mark Conway: In The Ruins
2012-10-16 Sharon Harris: Mother To Child
2012-10-15 Lorie Yourd: Broadband
2012-10-12 Charlie Pulkrabek: Skills and Traits
2012-10-11 Joyce Sutphen: Things You Didn't Put On Your Resume
2012-10-10 Gail Rixen: One of Us
2012-10-09 Ann Niedringhaus: Horrendous Certainty
2012-10-08 Marsh Muirhead: Obituary
2012-10-05 Ryan Vine: Mattress Salesman Ward
2012-10-04 Charmaine Donovan: Love In the Ticket Booth
2012-10-03 Will Weaver: The Tow Rope
2012-10-02 John Berryman: Dream Song #75 (Turning it over, considering like a madman)
2012-10-01 CarolAnn Russell: News From All Directions
2012-09-28 Jon Dallas: Old Friends
2012-09-27 Sheila Packa: Ode to Rhubarb
2012-09-26 Linda Back McKay: Regrets
2012-09-25 Sharon Chmielarz: Tomatoes
2012-09-24 LouAnn Shepard Muhm: Hurricane
2012-09-21 River Maria Urke: Echoes
2012-09-20 Nathan Bergstedt: Kim Kardasian Gets A Divorce
2012-09-19 Erin Lynn Marsh: Mathematics For Mother
2012-09-18 Louis Jenkins: Laundromat
2012-09-17 Audrey Helbling: Her Treasure
2012-09-14 Mark Christensen: An Old Watch
2012-09-13 Elisa Korentayer: Ryokan In Small Mountian Village Outside Kyoto
2012-09-12 Aaron Wenger: Fireflies Et al.
2012-09-11 Charmaine Donovan: Banana Mania
2012-09-10 Francine Sterle: After Visiting a Nature Conservancy Volunteer
2012-09-07 Sheila Packa: Crows
2012-09-06 John Berryman: Dream Song #1 - Huffy Henry Hid the Day
2012-09-05 Gail Rixen: Old Barn
2012-09-04 John Thornberg: Settling
2012-09-03 Joyce Sutphen: Work
2012-08-31 Linda Back McKay: If You Can't Hit the High Notes You're Not the Only One
2012-08-30 Sharon Chmielarz: Table
2012-08-29 Anthony Swann: Gramma Calling
2012-08-28 Ryan Vine: Rule 14
2012-08-27 Ryan Vine: Rule 5
2012-08-24 Charlie Pulkrabek: Pedestrian Tragedy
2012-08-23 Shanthi Siva: Word Power
2012-08-22 Katie Hae Leo: How To Leave Iowa
2012-08-21 Mark Christensen: Boy With Dog
2012-08-20 CarolAnn Russell: Fishing
2012-08-17 Charlie Pulkrabek: Your Culprit
2012-08-16 Will Weaver: Minnesota Grooming
2012-08-15 Erin Lynn Marsh: Writing At Night
2012-08-14 Marsh Muirhead: Jesus Is Coming
2012-08-13 LouAnn Shepard Muhm: Breadcrumbs
2012-08-10 Sean Hill: Postcard To My Third Crush Today
2012-08-09 Sean Hill: Postcard To Eduardo
2012-08-08 Sean Hill: Postcard To Wrong Address
2012-08-07 Sean Hill: Postcard To Anna
2012-08-06 Sean Hill: Postcard To Nostalgia
2012-08-03 Joyce Sutphen: Guys Like That
2012-08-02 Sonja Kosler: Near The End
2012-08-01 Katie Hae Leo: What We Do With Our Time
2012-07-31 Lorie Yourd: Montana Log Cabin Cafe / Muskrat Lake
2012-07-30 Sharon Harris: Walking These Hills / The Empty End of Things
2012-07-27 James Armstrong: Deadfall
2012-07-26 Will Weaver: Deer and Car
2012-07-25 Marsh Muirhead: Head Cold
2012-07-24 Allen Tate: Emblems
2012-07-23 Sara Breeze: I Like To Swim Naked In My Lake
2012-07-20 John Berryman: The High Ones Die
2012-07-19 James Wright: A Blessing
2012-07-18 Mary Finch: Let Me Take You To the River
2012-07-17 Louis Jenkins: Mudhole
2012-07-16 Louis Jenkins: The Telephone
2012-07-13 Guido: Nostalgia
2012-07-12 Mary Finch: On The Right Track
2012-07-11 Nathan Bergstedt: A Weekend Visit
2012-07-10 Joyce Sutphen: Your Call is Important to Us
2012-07-09 Joyce Sutphen: How to Listen
2012-07-06 Guido: Wayfaring Suitcase
2012-07-05 John Berryman: Henry's Understanding
2012-07-03

James Wright: Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Island Minnesota
2012-07-02

Gregory Corso: Dream of a Baseball Star
 
Now Accepting Poems:

To Whom It May Concern:

From: Steve Downing/Acting Producer/THE BEAT

Northern Community Radio is pleased to announce the launch of a new program in its Monday-Friday Morning Show line-up: THE BEAT. Between 7:30 and 8:00, THE BEAT will feature a short poem by a Minnesota poet (published or not, well known or not). Three minutes is about the time limit---shorter than that is fine, too. If this interests you, email me a work sample, and I'll follow up. If reading/recording intimidates you but THE BEAT idea is appealing, we have several professional, poetry-hip readers around here who will definitely do justice to your work. Feel free to forward this to whomever---anyone you think should know about THE BEAT.

THE BEAT will be airing on 91.7 KAXE (89.9/Brainerd) and 90.5 KBXE, on 150,000 watts of signal power, meaning much of northern Minnesota will pick it up, from Thief River Falls to Hermantown to Pierz.

Here's to poetry. Send us your best. Try to avoid the temptations of religion and partisan politics, and remember: the Federal Communications Commission is listening. There will be small stipends awarded to writers whose work is accepted.

Steve Downing

Northern Community Radio

218.326.1234

sdowning@kaxe.org
 
From the KLOG: The Beat Blog
7/25/12: The Beginning
by Steve Downing, Acting Producer of The Beat
In the first two weeks of The Beat, Northern Community Radio's Morning Show poem-for-a-day, we've featured some very famous, very dead poets with Minnesota connections: Gregory Corso, a charter member of the Beats back in the 1950s; John Berryman, a highly acclaimed poet and teacher when he jumped to his death from a bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis in 1972; James Wright, a Pulitzer Prize winning poet who taught at both the University of Minnesota and Macalaster; and Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota's current Poet Laureate.

And we've included poets who are known (as poets) only to their families and friends.  In time, as this project heats up, you'll even hear poems written and read by kids who don't think of themselves as poets. There are really only two criteria at The Beat: 1) the poetry has to be good, and 2) Minnesota has to figure prominently in the poet's personal story.

An RFP (Request For Poems) is floating around the state now, after a few strategic emails, and poetry is pouring in from everywhere, particularly from established, published poets who are well connected to each other and to the grapevine and who know what a unique opportunity The Beat is.  We won't be able to use every submission, but we promise to look carefully at everything, without bias as to where it came from.

Listen for The Beat after Best Wishes, between 7:30 and 8:00 Monday through Friday mornings. We'll likely find other times to use it, too. We're making this up as we go along, in true Northern Community Radio fashion, and the feedback is telling us we're most definitely onto something

The Beat is funded by Minnesota's Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund.
 
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