Poets in the new year: Wednesday's Access Utah

By Tom Williams

Published January 6, 2022 at 12:10 PM MST

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Poets get to the heart of what we’re thinking and feeling. It’s a new year and we’re going to look back and look ahead with poetry.

Today we’ll hear from Utah Poet Laureate Paisley Rekdal; Logan Poet Laureate Shanan Ballam; and poet and Sonosopher Alex Caldiero. We’ll hear poems they have composed along with works from other poets they have 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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