A Prairie Home Companion: April 24, 2004

Special Guests
Saturday, April 24, 2004

Poet Louis Jenkins has had his work published in many literary magazines and anthologies. His poetry collections include An Almost Human Gesture, All Tangled Up With the Living, Nice Fish: New and Selected Prose Poems, Just Above Water, and The Winter Road, which was nominated for the 2001 Minnesota Book Award for poetry. Two of his prose poems were included in The Best American Poetry (1999). He lives in Duluth.

Austin, Minnesota native Charlie Parr took up the guitar at the age of eight. His musical repertoire includes original and traditional folk and blues, which he sings while accompanying himself on six-string acoustic guitar, National resonator guitar, and banjo. Parr moved from the Twin Cities to Duluth in 2000, and recently returned from a tour of Great Britain. His most recent release is entitled King Earl.

Singer/songwriter Jerree Small is a Duluth native who spent several years living and making music in Minneapolis and on the East Coast before returning to her hometown of Duluth in December of 2003. She has opened for such artists as Maggie and Suzzy Roche, Ferron, Karen Savoca, and Jules Shear. Her most recent release is entitled Mobius.