Gillian Ferris
News Director and Managing EditorGillian Ferris was the News Director and Managing Editor for KNAU.
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A group of 5th graders at Marshall Elementary School in Flagstaff is anxiously awaiting this week’s announcement of the winners of NPR’s Student Podcast Challenge. They are among the youngest competitors in the 5th annual contest. Their teacher, Katie Krause, created a podcast area in her classroom for the kids to get creative.
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In the latest installment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, we meet poet and environmental educator David Martin. He believes poetry is “artful communication and connectivity” to each other, ourselves, and the natural world. Today, he shares an excerpt of his poem The Ground Nest.
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Colorado River guides who are in relationships with other Colorado River guides are sometimes on the water at the same time, but on different trips. It’s a unique, romantic kind of adventure being simultaneously separated and connected by the same body of water. Page-based poet Holly Sullivan captures the experience beautifully in her poem To You. Sullivan spent years as a boat swamper in the Grand Canyon and today shares her take on river love.
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A group of art education students at Northern Arizona University will debut a first-of-its-kind exhibit tonight’s at Flagstaff’s First Friday Art Walk. Onyx: An All-Black Art Exhibition features the work of five local Black artists. It started off as a class research project on cultural competency and evolved into a multi-media art history project to elevate Black artists and recognize the contributions of the Black community to Flagstaff’s history.
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In the latest installment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps! we meet Rosemarie Dombrowski. She is the inaugural Poet Laureate of Phoenix and a full-time caregiver to her adult son with non-verbal autism. Dombroski's mission is to bring poetry to vulnerable populations as a means of healing.
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In the latest segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, we meet Kinsale Drake. She grew up in two very different places: Los Angeles, California, and Navajo Mountain where her maternal grandmother lived. Drake knits them together in her poem Put on that KTNN.
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In this week’s PoetrySnaps! segment, Tucson-based writer Cynthia Hogue shares her poem After the War There Was No Food. It’s a mix of memories and gut feelings all centered around a near-fatal heart attack her husband suffered some years ago. Hogue wrote it while he was in the ICU. It’s set during his childhood in WWII growing up in occupied France, a time of vast food shortages and desperate hunger.
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While evacuation orders have been lifted for residents and businesses along Oak Creek in Sedona, a GO order remains in place for some communities in the Verde Valley.
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We’re almost at the finish line of one of the snowiest winters in quite a while for the Colorado Plateau. And writer Jodie Hollander has a poem for us to mark the transition from winter to spring. It's the latest installment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!
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In this week’s segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, Tucson-based writer Simmons Buntin shares his poem Indigo Bunting. It’s a celebration of sound, which is what led Buntin to poetry in the first place. Today, he talks about his original poetic muse — music.