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In this week’s episode of PoetrySnaps!, Texas-based poet Melissa Studdard shares her poem, If Falling Is a Leaf. It’s a combination of poetry, music, autumn and the artist David Hockney. She wrote it in response to a musical score written by her partner.
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In the first segment of KNAU's new series PoetrySnaps!, we hear from Colorado-based poet Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. Her poem Big explores a post-pandemic world where lost time and pent-up energy take center stage.
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Utah state and county officials have sued the Biden administration over the decision last year to restore two sprawling national monuments on lands sacred to Native Americans.
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Before the summer rains arrived, the winds blew relentlessly across the Colorado Plateau. They heightened drought conditions and increased fire danger. But wind isn’t always a destructive force. Sometimes it’s an artist. In his latest Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony takes a look at the positive side of wind by exploring a spectacular wind-carved landscape.
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Their return comes as communities push for museums and other institutions to repatriate items that are of historic, cultural and sacred value to Indigenous people and tribes.
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Miniature liquor bottles could soon return to stores in Utah after the state agency that oversees alcohol approved a rule change.
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Famed artist Frida Kahlo will be the subject of an upcoming musical. “Frida, The Musical” will follow Kahlo’s journey from Mexico City, to Paris, New York and back home again to the house of her birth.
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A former Colorado county clerk who became the first public official to issue a same-sex marriage license in 1975, has died at the age of 78. Clela Rorex became a symbol of LGBTQ+ rights and showed up to every Pride parade in Boulder, CO before her death which occurred apropos during this year's Pride Month.
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Federal wildlife officials will remove a cap on the population of Mexican gray wolves allowed in the Southwest as part of a 4-year-old legal settlement that forced the federal government to revise how it manages the endangered animals.
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The U.S. Interior Department has released the first volume of an investigation into the federal government’s Indian boarding school program. It’s an attempt to address the troubled legacy of the schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society for 150 years.