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Access Utah
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    Essayist and poet Molly McCully Brown
    The Stokes Nature Center's NEA Big Read program is focusing on "You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World," edited by Ada Limon. Featured in the book, author, poet, and essayist Molly McCully Brown joined us in January to discuss the collection and other works.Molly McCully Brown is the author of the essay collection "Places I’ve Taken my Body" and the poetry collection "The Virginia State Colony For Epileptics and Feebleminded," which won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was named a New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2017. With Susannah Nevison, she is also the coauthor of the poetry collection "In The Field Between Us." She is director of creative writing at the University of Wyoming and editor-in-chief of Image Journal.
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    'Water in the Desert: A Pilgrimage' with Gary Paul Nabhan on Access Utah
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    Our guests today are Ryan Jackson and Ned Weinshenker. We discuss a new CRISPR system that can be used to selectively kill cells, and some recent breakthroughs in the growing technology.