Humanities Iowa Radio Program: "Voices from the Prairie"

Humanities Iowa has expanded its state-wide radio broadcasts in celebration of Iowa’s culture. On Saturday, February 10, 2001, poet and farmer Michael Carey of Farragut in Southwest Iowa began to host a weekly sampling of poetry taken from the state’s fertile literary soil. The program, called “Voices from the Prairie,” compliments the yearly Iowa writers’ celebration, which Humanities Iowa inaugurated under the same name in September of 2000, and introduces the listening audience to the sentiments of some of Iowa’s great writers as captured in poetry.

Humanities Iowa is again partnering with KMA 960 AM radio station in Shenandoah and FM 90.9 KUNI radio station in Cedar Falls to broadcast the weekly Saturday morning programs. To hear "Voices from the Prairie," tune your radio to KUNI radio at 8:34 a.m. KUNI is also streaming the broadcast so you may visit their website to hear each poem read on Saturday mornings. After each week's poem has aired, it is archived so you can listen again! Follow this link to reach the KUNI audio archive

KUNI’s listening area covers most of eastern Iowa, plus parts of northwest Illinois and southwest Wisconsin. Major cities served by KUNI’s main signal at 90.9 FM include Waterloo, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids and Iowa City. KUNI can also be heard in Des Moines at 101.7 FM, in Dubuque at 98.7 FM, in Eldridge at 102.7 FM and in the Quad Cities at 94.5 FM. In north central Iowa, programming can be heard on 91.5 FM KUNY and northern Iowa and southern Minnesota are serviced by KRNI 1010 AM from Mason City.

Check for air times of this program at KMA 960 AM radio in Southwestern Iowa.

Broadcasting from Shenandoah, KMA 960 AM has a large listening audience including towns such as Lamoni, Creston, Clarinda, Winterset, Red Oak and Council Bluffs.