poetrysnaps!

Poet Sage Marshall is a Colorado native and an avid skier, backpacker, duck hunter and fly fisherman. He works as an outdoor journalist but also writes poetry. He reads his piece “On Perspective.”

Erik Bitsui's book "Mosh Pit Etiquette Volume One: Secrets of a 21st Century Navajo Headbanger" is a mixture of heavy metal, humor and Diné tradition. Bitsui says it took him 30 years to write it.

Flagstaff-based writer Andie Francis is the featured writer in the latest installment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps! In her poem When My Head Hangs Too Low, Francis weaves together landscape, grief, and love for a brother she hadn’t seen in many years. It’s set at Gates Pass in the Tucson Mountains. If you’ve ever been there, you know it’s a truly sublime place to watch the sunset.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This Valentine's week, KNAU's series PoetrySnaps! celebrates love of the earth with Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Laura Tohe.