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Arts & Letters

Arts & Letters

Written by: J. Bradley Minnick
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 Arts & Letters is a program celebrating contemporary arts, humanities, and social sciences, with an emphasis on authentic Southern voices. Hosted by J. Bradley Minnick of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the full episode archive is available at artsandlettersradio.org. Art
Episodes
  • This Afterlife with Poet A.E. Stallings

    This Afterlife with Poet A.E. Stallings
    Dec 13 2025
    Does poetic constraint empower creativity? Known for her received forms like sonnets and sestinas, American poet A.E. Stallings joins us in the studio to discuss her book of selected poems, This Afterlife.
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    53 mins
  • From Dora-Mittelbau to the Moon

    From Dora-Mittelbau to the Moon
    Nov 17 2025
    What is the connection between a secret concentration camp built deep inside a German mountain and NASA's race to the moon in the 1960s? Novelist Patrick Hicks takes us on a journey from humanity's deepest despair to our greatest heights.
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    53 mins
  • She Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales

    She Calf and Other Quechua Folk Tales
    Jul 13 2025
    Travel with us to the high Andes of Cusco, Peru searching for folk tales with author Johnny Payne. Many know of Machu Picchu, but few Americans have heard the oral stories of the indigenous people who reside in the shadows of the 15th-century Inca citadel.
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    52 mins
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