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Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Laura Hershey. Hershey was born in 1962 in Littleton, Colorado, and as a young child was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy, a rare genetic disease. She used a wheelchair throughout her life.
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Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m excited to share with you a poem by the beloved Kansas poet Michael Kleber-Diggs
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Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. I’m sharing a poem with you today by fellow Texas poet Katherine Hoerth.
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Hello, my name is Matt Mason, I am the State Poet of Nebraska, and I am here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m reading and talking about Nebraska poet JV Brummels’ poem “Grass Widow.”
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This is a short lyrical poem, which makes use of the five senses – smell being the dominant sense. In addition to smell, we can see the sycamore, we can feel the wind moving about the speaker in the poem, through her. We can hear the wind in the sycamores. And we can almost taste the cumulative effect as it saturates the speaker of the poem.
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Get your poetry infusion tonight at Burrowing Owl Books in Wolflin Square with a live reading, book-signing and Q&A with Amarillo's renowned poet, Chera Hammons. Her new collection is bursts with nature imagery that spins out wbs of joy like a cafffeinated orb-weaver.
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Hi, I’m Wayne Miller. I’m a poet who lives in Denver, Colorado, and I’m here for Poets on the Plains.Today I’m going to read a poem by the poet Graham Foust.
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Hi, I’m Traci Brimhall, Poet Laureate of Kansas, here for Poets on the Plains. Today I’m delighted to share with you a poem by a Kansas poet I love, Janice Northerns.
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Hi. I’m Chera Hammons, a poet from Amarillo, Texas, here for Poets on the Plains. It’s a beautiful morning and the birds are singing. I’m sharing a poem with you today by former Texas Panhandle resident Allison Adelle Hedge Coke. Though she doesn’t live here anymore, this place is still an important part of her work, which often calls back to her time here on the High Plains.
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Hi, my name is Matt Mason, I am the State Poet of Nebraska, here for Poets on the Plains. Today, I’m here with Nebraska poet Sarah McKinstry-Brown’s poem “In the Sixth Month.”