New Letters on the Air

The weekly half hour program features poets, novelists, playwrights, and essayists reading from and discussing their work. New Letters on the Air, hosted by Angela Elam, is the half-hour radio companion to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. Poets Laureate Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize-winning playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, Richard Russo, and others. The program, which also features emerging writers of poetry, fiction, drama and creative non-fiction, is produced by the University of Missouri-Kansas City and distributed via the Public Radio Satellite System's Content Depot, and the Public Radio Exchange.