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Monday, March 1, 2021 - Steve Wingate discusses his new novel, released today, The Leave-Takers. It’s his second novel for the Flyover Fiction Series published by the University of Nebraska Press. The series is dedicated to stories of the Great Plains. Wingate is an associate professor of English at South Dakota State University. ~~~ Charley Johnson of the Fargo-Moorhead Visitors and Convention Bureau joins us to discuss the impact of the pandemic on the hospitality industry, and he also explains his concern about House Bill 1298, which would restrict the participation of transgender students in athletics.
In The Moment … December 11, 2020 Show 959 Hour 1
Poet Christine Stewart-Nuñez had been contemplating an anthology of South Dakota poems long before she became the state s poet laureate. She s written her own collections, including Untrussed and Bluewords Greening. She is a professor of English at South Dakota State University. But now she has edited a collection called South Dakota in Poems. It s a capacious conversation, she says in the book s introduction. It s also a who s who of South Dakota poets, an introduction to noteworthy newcomers, and an invitation to us all to see ourselves and our stories in new ways. South Dakota s poet laureate Christine Stewart-Nuñez joins us now to talk about the anthology.