I have long thought that the primary reason we are known for our hospitality in this part of the country is that we are all equal in the wind. In this book I gained a much deeper understanding of why.

Hello listeners, I’m Alysse Kathleen McCanna, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m grateful to share a poem with you by incredible human, Andrea Gibson. Gibson was a poet, performer, activist, and Colorado’s ninth poet laureate. They were the author of seven poetry collections, and seven albums of spoken word and performance poetry.

Hi! Marjory Hall here from Goodwell, Oklahoma, back with another BookByte for the Radio Reader’s Fall, 2026 season. One of my favorite elements of participating in a book club is the enjoyment of reading a great book that I would never have chosen on my own.

Luther Taylor was a talented baseball player who made it to the Major Leagues and the World Series in the early 1900s. This Kansas native was also deaf. Commentator Rex Buchanan has his story.

In 1935, Franklin Delano Roosevelt created the Works Progress Administration, throwing a lifeline of meaningful work and wages to a nation in the grip of the Great Depression. The federal program had far-reaching effects for the nation's poor and downtrodden, at one point employing more than three million people across the country.

Hello Radio Readers! This is Marit Ehmke coming to you from west-central Kansas in Lane County. As I was on the tractor the other day, racing the coming rain to knock down very healthy weeds, it occurred to me that we’re such at the mercy of what the wind brings our way.

This week we revisit recent performances by the many talented students of the West Texas A&M University School of Music!

This week, Luke is talking about learning to shoot and hunt with a new firearm or bow. This might just be the spark needed to put the thrill of hunting back into your days afield.

While you’re putting the effort into gardening, why not do a little extra for the pollinators and others who bring a lot to your garden and your yard? A nice side benefit to your work is the way that you can also help Mother Nature do her thing, and we’ll talk this week about how!

I'm Glenda Shepard from Yucca Corners Farm in Stanton County KS. This is my Radio Readers BookByte for Heaven's Breath: A Natural History of the Wind by Lyall Watson. When I first started this book, I was a little intimidated. It has thousands of scientific and Latin names, most of which I kind of glided over. Gliding is a frequent topic in the book.