poetry

We talk with Freeman Ng, author of "Bridge Across The Sky," a young adult novel in verse based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island in the early 1900s.

Laura Tohe is a poet, writer, librettist, scholar of Indigenous American literature, and former Navajo Nation Poet Laureate.

Host Tammy Proctor continues her discussion with Sarah Neville, author of "Early Modern Herbals and the Book Trade." This week they focus on specific literary reference to John Milton's "Paradise Lost" poem and the question of the forbidden fruit.

We talk with Dan Murphy, whose new collection of poems "Estate Sale" is being published by University of Utah Press. He is winner of the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.

In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains.

In the fall of 2015, artist Gaylord Schanilec and writer Terry Tempest Williams ventured into southern Utah’s desert and returned to the studio with juniper and sandstone artifacts.

In her ninth collection of poems, Ghost Apples, Katharine Coles interrogates and celebrates her relationship with the natural world and the various creatures who inhabit it.

In the second half of the program we hear a segment from the podcast Empty Clouds by Patrick McNamee King, titled "The Waking," about life, loss, and a love of poetry.

Logan City's poet laureate, Shanan Ballam, says poetry has helped her find her voice again after losing her ability to speak after a stroke. She recently released a new collection of poems from poets in and related to Cache Valley.

We continue our tradition of bringing you poetry in the New Year. This year we feature conversation with and poetry from Utah Poet Laureate Lisa Bickmore, along with poets Michael Sowder and Ben Gunsberg.