Hi, I’m Quraysh Ali Lansana, a poet, author and professor in Tulsa, Oklahoma, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m delighted to explore a poem of my own that speaks to an intersection of two significant aspects in Oklahoma history.

I’m Megan Hope, a native Southwest Kansan (currently living in the Missouri Ozarks) and proud supporter of HPPR. A book I think will resonate with many High Plains listeners is All the Living, by C.E. Morgan, published in 2009 by Picador and widely available at libraries and booksellers.

A conventional description of the Great Plains landscape of Kansas may include references to open skies, treeless flatlands, rolling hills of shortgrass and mixed-grass prairies, and colors tending toward tan and brown. However, when we look at areas in Southwest and South-Central Kansas, the former description may not always fit. Located mostly in Clark, Comanche and Barber counties along the southern border of Kansas, there exists a physiographic province known as the Red Hills. This undulating terrain of red-tinted sediments comes from an underlying geological structure that developed when the Great Plains spanned an ancient ocean.

This is Tracy Million Simmons, owner of Meadowlark Press in Emporia, Kansas, for High Plains Public Radio Reader’s Summer Reading List. As a regional press specializing in stories from the Midwest, I’d like to take this moment to introduce you to our newest memoir, Reptile Romance, by Harley Elliott.

Tune in this week to hear the Amarillo Symphony perform music by Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev!

Composting is a great way to get nutrients into your garden, especially during the summer. This week, we’ll review the process of composting during the summertime, and how to let the heat help in the process!

Luke just got off the water at Lake Texoma with his longtime friend Bill Carey with Striper Express www.striperexpress.com, Guide Todd Hehalko, Larry Weishuhn, ask "Mr. Whitetail”, and Jeff Rice, producer of the TV show "A Sportsmans Life" on Carbon Tv and YouTube. The goal was to get on the water at first light, enjoy the early morning bite and be back at the dock cleaning fish before the heat hit.

Good afternoon, HPPR listeners, this is Andrea Elise coming to you from Amarillo, Texas. Today, we’ll talk about Simon Paré-Poupart’s biography, Trash!: A Garbageman’s Story. We’ve all heard adages like, “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” or someone “trash talking” another person, or even that something is “a load of garbage.”

Hello listeners, I’m Alysse Kathleen McCanna, here today for Poets on the Plains. I’m so happy to be your Colorado host for season three. Let me tell you a little bit about me: I’m the author of FishWife, winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award in poetry.

Hi, I’m Tara Shaw and I’m here to recommend a Summer Read for the HPPR Radio Reader’s Book Club. I currently live in Edina, Minnesota, but I grew up in Baldwin, KS and am a huge fan of HPPR and their programming.