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In the first segment of KNAU's new series PoetrySnaps!, we hear from Colorado-based poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Her poem Big explores a post-pandemic world where lost time and pent-up energy take center stage.
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The park’s latest Astronomer-in-Residence is poet Lauren Camp, a recipient of the American Fiction Award for Poetry. She spoke with KNAU’s Bree Burkitt about her first starry night on the job and finding inspiration in the dark.
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Winners of the 16th Annual Jim Simmerman Poetry Prize for Poets of Flagstaff District High Schools have been announced. This year's top three winners are all students at Coconino High School.
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A new poetry book by the Arizona-based author Austin Davis called “Lotus & the Apocalypse” imagines it’s the last day on Earth. The main character, Lotus, is scrambling to figure out the meaning of life before it’s too late. The book is a frank and emotionally raw portrayal of the mental health struggles, substance abuse and suicidal thoughts that Davis himself has wrestled with most of his life.
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Navajo poet Jake Skeets has been named one of the winners of this year's Whiting Award.The Gallup Independent reports the Giles Whiting Foundation…
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KNAU listener Dan Dadmun went the extra mile for this week's Poetry Friday segment. He found a poem he like, Taylor Mali's 'How Falling in Love is like…
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Remember pay phone booths? Poet Elizabeth Hellstern does. She's the inventor of the Telepoem Booth - a vintage rotary phone booth that recites poetry to…
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It’s been almost a week since Randy Wilson, longtime editor of the Arizona Daily Sun, died unexpectedly at the age of 65. During his 23 years at the…
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Flagstaff poet Jill Divine is in an “ode phase.” She’s been musing about both the beauty and tragedy of life and believes odes are the perfect way to…
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This week marks five years since 19 Granite Mountain Hotshots were killed fighting the Yarnell Hill Fire. In today’s Poetry Friday segment, KNAU listener…