Arts & Culture

?iir (poetry): "Uzun ?nce Bir Yolday?m" by Veysel (encore)

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson

Published August 25, 2020 at 12:42 PM CDT

(This episode originally aired April 10, 2020)

Lisa Fitzpatrick speaks a lot of languages.

And she loves poetry. In fact, she was the one who originally thought of a poetry feature on KUMD, sharing poetry in different languages.

But when she started thinking about a poem to read, herself, there was only one choice for her: Turkish.

This is a poem by A??k Veysel called "Uzun ?nce Bir Yolday?m"

And here is the complete poem read in Turkish:

poem_turkish.mp3

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Lisa Johnson

Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.

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