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Greetings from Goodwell, Oklahoma! I’m Marjory Hall with a BookByte for our new 2025 Fall Read. In an earlier Book Byte, I mentioned how much avid readers appreciate an author’s fresh approach to a novel.

Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas and here today to talk about the book Eat Your Words: A Kansas Poetry Cookbook. It’s a collection of recipes and poems I helped edit that collected 20 recipes from 20 chefs across the great state of Kansas.

Fall weather comes to beautiful Lake Texoma

Hi, I’m Marjory Hall from Goodwell, Oklahoma with a BookByte for our 2025 Fall Read. American Mother by Colum McCann and Diane Foley is, as the title suggests, about a mother’s reaction to the death of her child. This mother, though, must navigate an unusual element of her child’s passing.

Hi, I’m Shelley Armitage here for Poets on the Plains. I’m an emerita professor and writer who grew up in the small ranching and farming community of Vega, Texas west of Amarillo. Today I’d like to share a few ideas and a poem with you. Writing about and living on the plains are dear to my heart.

My name is Jewel Rodgers and I am your state Poet of Nebraska and I am going to read my poem Bloom for you. I wrote this poem with the intention of keeping it grounded in very concrete items—hibiscus, rose, agave, domino tables, spades, soup kitchens, city halls. I wanted it to move from the intimacy of tending to oneself to tending to an entire community.

Hi, I’m Janice Northerns, coming to you from Wichita, Kansas, for Poets on the Plains. I am honored to share one of my own poems with you today: Pilgrimage with Grandchildren, which was published in 2023 in KANSAS!, (that’s Kansas with an exclamation mark), our state’s gorgeous travel magazine.

Wildlife in your garden in the winter might not sound so bad, but most of it won't be invited. So what to do?

Just because it's cold out doesn't mean you can't be thinking about your garden...or someone else's garden. Help the gardeners in your life with thoughtful gardening gift ideas!

This week, Luke puts a new air rifle to the test.