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KJJP-FM 105.7 is currently operating at 15% of power, limiting its signal strength and range in the Amarillo-Canyon area. This due to complicated problems with its very old transmitter. Local engineers are continuing to work on the transmitter and are consulting with the manufacturer to diagnose and fix the problems. We apologize for this disruption and service as we work as quickly as possible to restore KJPFM to full power. In the mean time you can always stream either the HPPR Mix service or HPPR Connect service using the player above or the HPPR app.

Pat Tyrer

HPPR Radio Readers Book Leader

Radio Reader Pat Tyrer (pronounced ty-REE) will serve as Book Leader for The Cellist of The Cellist of Sarajevo. Tyrer is Jenny Lind Porter Professor of English at WTAMU where she teachers creative writing, American literature and technical communication, but Pat began her career as an LPN and a Navy purchasing agent before beginning her academic career at age 40. She has published short stories, poems and essays in a variety of journals, and has published two books of poetry, Creative Hearts and Western Spaces, Western Places.

  • Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri
    HPPR Features
    Thoughts about Untruths
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. Over the past few years, I’ve noticed that some of the most provocative and enjoyable writing is being published in the genre of young adult novels. Such is the case with Daniel Nayeri’s Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story). In fact, I was so affected by this book that I have bought and given away several copies.
  • Lessons in Chemistry (2022) by Bonnie Garmus
    HPPR Features
    Fierce, Feminist, & Funny
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Bytes for Summer 2023.
  • The Gentleman maintains his schedule of visits to the hotel barber, lunch in the Piazza, dinner in the Boyarsky, and evening drinks at the Shalyapin bar, never once leaving the Metropol. Perhaps he dined in this room within the Hotel.
    HPPR Features
    A Sure Route to Madness
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. I’m excited to talk about A Gentleman in Moscow, one of my very favorite books.
  • Vedran Smailovic playing in the destroyed building of the National Library in Sarajevo, 1992.
    HPPR Features
    Eventually – Peace and Harmony
    Pat Tyrer
    I’m Pat Tyrer from Canyon, Texas for the High-Plains-Public-Radio-Readers Book Club. Our January 2023 book, The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, is one of the most engaging, tense books I’ve read in quite a while.