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Podcast: You Are Hear

May 16, 2013
You Are Hear: May Day, May Day! (May 2013)
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This month's episode features a contribution by Sam Landman, a story that falls somewhere between Philip K. Dick, David Ives and Joe Frank.
Apr 22, 2013
You Are Hear: Rhymes and/or Reasons (April 2013)
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In honor of National Poetry Month, we're featuring three of the scene's notables: Louis Jenkins, Connie Wanek and Freya Manfred, recorded live at Common Good Books.
Mar 21, 2013
You Are Hear: Madness (March 2013)
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This month's episode of our podcast features an autobiographical short, "Idle Hands Could Unsaddle a Mind" by Janice Pettit.
Feb 21, 2013
You Are Hear: Romance is Dead (February 2013)
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David Lynch has nothing on poet Richard Carr, who for this twisted Valentine's Day episode contributes some moody poems from a new sequence, "Dead Wendy," read in three voices by Carr, host Brian Beatty and writer Darci Schummer.
Jan 17, 2013
You Are Hear: Lucky 13 (January 2013)
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For our first episode of 2013, coincidentally our 13th-ever edition of the podcast, host Brian Beatty interviews blues man Charlie Parr about storytelling through music.
Dec 20, 2012
You Are Hear: Gifted (December 2012)
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For our last episode of 2012, we end the first year of our monthly literary podcast as we began it, with new stories by Britt Aamodt and host Brian Beatty.
Nov 15, 2012
You Are Hear: Thanks, But No Thanks (November 2012)
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Brian Beatty talks shop his old friend award-winning fiction writer Anne Panning, author of the new novel, "Butter," for this month's episode.
Oct 18, 2012
You Are Hear: Tricks & Treats (October 2012)
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This month's episode of mnartists.org's literary podcast, hosted by Brian Beatty, features a spooky story by writer and humorist Rob Callahan, of Rockstar Storytellers, Cracked.com, l'etoile magazine and others.
Sep 20, 2012
You Are Hear: All Work, No Play (September 2012)
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This month's featured writer is poet, photographer and performer Jeffrey Skemp with a pair of pieces on work and leisure (with music by J.G. Everest and Matt Monsoor).
Aug 16, 2012
You Are Hear: Love, War, All is Fair, Etc (August 2012)
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This month's feature writer is hip hop artist and two-time Nat'l Poetry Slam champ Guante, with two pieces: on basketball and life, and love in a time of zombies.
Jul 19, 2012
You Are Hear: When the Smoke Clears (July 2012)
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In this month's episode, writer Jill Grunewald with a story about love and remodeling, and the occasionally serendipitous disaster.
Jun 21, 2012
You Are Hear: Move Over, Rover (June 2012)
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In this month's episode, Maggie Ryan Sandford offers a dark twist on sharing custody of the family pet, and Melissa Louis Fletcher tells a story about an afternoon at the sweat lodge.
May 17, 2012
You Are Hear: Who You Calling a Mother? (May 2012)
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For this month's episode of mnartists.org's literary podcast, comedienne and writer Colleen Kruse offers a very funny story about cannibal hamsters and the black heart of motherhood.
Apr 19, 2012
You Are Hear: Fools & Poets (April 2012)
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We're celebrating National Poetry Month: featured writers for this episode are poets Todd Boss (PITCH, 2012) and Paula Cisewski (GHOST FARGO, 2010).
Mar 15, 2012
You Are Hear: Luck - Good, Bad & Otherwise (March)
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For this month's episode, host Brian Beatty swaps stories about luck - good and bad - with Irish-American raconteur "Wild" Bill Watkins.
Feb 16, 2012
You Are Hear: The Heart of the Matter (February 2012)
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This installment of YOU ARE HEAR, hosted by writer/comedian Brian Beatty, features two new stories, about what love leaves behind and superheroes shilling for cereal, by John Jodzio and the comedy duo Pommelhorse.
Jan 19, 2012
YOU ARE HEAR: Life Goes On (January 2012)
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It's our first-ever episode of YOU ARE HEAR, a new literary podcast by mnartists.org, hosted by writer Brian Beatty. This installment -- themed "Life Goes On" -- features a new story by Britt Aamodt, "Oh, Hell."
Nov 2, 2011
YOU ARE HEAR: Submission protocols, themes, and deadlines
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In January 2012, mnartists.org launched a monthly literary podcast, hosted by writer and comedian Brian Beatty. Read on for submission guidelines and deadlines, a year's worth of show themes, and more information.

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