With many thanks to the host poets of Season Two of Poets on the Plains, we welcome five new host poets to Season Three. You may remember that toward the end of each season, each host poet selects a successor, sometimes from the list of featured poets in the season and sometimes a surprise newcomer. Today’s opening features High Plains Morning host Jenny Inzerillo in an interview with Kansas Poet Laureate and Poets on the Plains founder Traci Brimhall.

One of the darker elements of the dust bowl days came from the advent of “rabbit drives” in an attempt to control the destruction caused by hordes of black-tailed jackrabbits.

Hello, I am Don Paxton, a fellow reader from Amarillo. Along with being a recovering CPA my church is remarkably similar to the one in the series described below. If you are looking for a fun summer read, I suggest a series of paperback novels by Mark Schweizer known as liturgical mysteries.

Luke's longtime friend Larry Weishuhn joins in the fun this week, and the topic is old rifle calibers that these two veteran hunters have used through the years.