Gillian Ferris
News Director and Managing EditorGillian Ferris was the News Director and Managing Editor for KNAU.
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This week’s PoetrySnaps! guest is Elena Karina Byrne, a poet and multi-media artist. She grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960’s in a family of artists: her parents and brother were painters and did sketch work and conceptual art. Byrne was inspired by all of it, but she also wanted to find her own niche. In poetry, she was able to take the visual world she learned about as a child and put it into words on paper.
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In this week’s episode of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, we meet Kelli Russell Agodon. When it comes to writing poetry, she says she’s all about quantity.
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In this week's segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney shares his poem Ambulance with No Siren, set near the Tuba City medical center. He also talks about the key role his poetry mentor played in helping him develop his craft.
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Pamela Uschuk is a poet, political activist, and wilderness advocate. She is also a cancer survivor, and in this week's segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, she shares a poem that moves through the experience and endurance of chemotherapy. Uschuk says her poem Green Flame was inspired by one particular sight in nature.
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Writer Wendy Videlock describes poetic inspiration as being ambushed. An idea emerges and then tells her where to go. In her poem, Deconstruction, Videlock, uses an array of bird species to symbolize the infinite experience of being human.
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There are two things in particular poet Steven Nightingale loves about his craft: the sonnet, and Emily Dickinson. In this week’s PoetrySnaps! segment, he combines the two in a sonnet he wrote for his favorite American poet. Here is Steven Nightingale with, We Who Would Call Emily Dickinson Back.
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In this week’s segment, we meet Colorado-based poet José Alcantara. He prefers to write outside so that his muse, Mother Nature, can find him and offer him inspiration. Alcantara says he doesn’t write within a human timeframe. Instead, he writes according to nature’s eternal clock. Here is José Alcantara with his poem To a Friend Who Does Not Believe in God.
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In this week's segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps! we hear from David M. Parsons, a prolific writer and former Texas Poet Laureate. When he is struck by inspiration, he writes ideas down on small pieces of paper which he later develops into poems. That’s how Parsons’ poem, I Would Give You the Single Strawberry, came to life.
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This week's installment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps! features Colorado-based poet Claudia Putnam reading her poem Baba Yaga. In it, Putnam twists the idea of the forest witch, concentrating not on scary mythology, but on independence and connection with nature.
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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.