Revisiting 'Poets in the new year 2022' on Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published February 16, 2026 at 1:13 PM MST

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This episode first aired on January 6, 2022.

Utah poet and Sonosopher Alex Caldiero has died. Next time on Access Utah we’ll remember him by revisiting an episode from January 2022.

Each year we look back and look ahead with poetry. Poets get to the heart of what we’re thinking and feeling. In January 2022 our featured poets were then Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal; Logan Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam; and poet and Sonosopher Alex Caldiero. We heard poems they composed along with works from other poets they selected.

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Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.

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