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Poetry, fiction, drama, and creative non-fiction
New Letters on the Air, from the University of Missouri Kansas City, is the half-hour radio companion to the literary quarterly magazine New Letters. Past guests include U.S. Poet Laureates Ted Kooser, Rita Dove, Billy Collins; Pulitzer Prize winning playwrights August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, Tony Kushner; and novelists Jim Harrison, Jane Smiley, and Richard Russo. 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.