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  • Author’s Collection, Alysse Kathleen McCanna
    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.
  • Whether you’re into trapping, or you’re just trying to rid your property of some wild hogs, you might be interested in Luke’s new discovery, P.I.G. Hog Traps. Learn more about these in this week’s episode!
  • With cyclosporiasis in the news lately, and in some states on the High Plains, it pays to keep safety and proper food handling practices in mind…some things that don’t seem problematic, or which may not have caused issues in the past, might still be worth doing differently as part of a multi-layered process to minimize your risk. We’ll talk about steps you can take in this week’s episode!
  • Hello, Radio Readers. I’m Jane Holwerda in Dodge City, Kansas. My current mission is to read books I’ve collected. But I am sometimes waylaid by “new” things promoted by media I align with. And so, a few weeks back, I closed Thackeray’s Vanity Fair to read Caro Claire Burke’s novel.
  • Welcome to Poets on the Plains, I’m Brad Aaron Modlin. I’m an Associate Professor and the Reynolds Endowed Chair of Creative Writing at University of Nebraska in Kearney, teaching undergrads and in our online master’s degree in creative writing.
  • 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 Heaven in a Wildflower, historical fiction set on the Kansas prairie of the early 20th century.
  • In most people’s minds, the image of a diner is usually associated with shiny stainless steel structures straight out of the 1940s and 50s. These imagined eateries are also linked to the East Coast, with their counter stools occupied by guys from Jersey or Brooklyn having serious encounters with a piece of pie and a mug of coffee.
  • At the time of this recording, it is July. It's hot - 100-degree temperatures, severe weather. 
But this time of July, we now start thinking about August in the fall sports season. It won't be long, and kids will be at the football field practicing, and they'll be on the volleyball court. It's going to be in full session. 

  • Tune in to Classical Music Amarillo this week to hear works by two French composers of the twentieth century!
  • It may feel like a good time to relax for a bit, with your garden now in for the summer, but in fact, time flies, and it’s already time to plant items you plan to harvest in the fall! This week, we’ll talk about how now is the time to get in your last batch of plants, in order to get the best fruits of your labor!
  • My name is Charles Roamer, and I'm the author of 83 Odyssey---An Adventure Down the Spine of America on U.S. Highway 83. I'm an old road warrior who wrote a book for travel story enthusiasts, and those from the High Plains region where U.S. 83 courses through would, I think, be especially interested in my story.