poetrysnaps!

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.

Poet Lois P. Jones is a bit of a fan girl when it comes to Austrian writer Rilke. So much so that her poem A Ghost of One’s Self imagines what it would be like to live with him through the experience of his housekeeper. In this week’s segment of PoetrySnaps! Lois P. Jones shares with us her poem and her Rilke fascination.

If you have the gift of writing, it’s your duty to use it. That’s what Gilbert-based poet Karen Rigby believes. She’s been writing since childhood and says inspiration is everywhere. In this week’s PoetrySnaps! segment, Rigby shares with us her poem, Bathing in the Burned House.

In this week's segment of KNAU's series PoetrySnaps!, we meet Lynne Thompson, a trained attorney-turned-poet, and a former Poet Laureate for the City of Los Angeles. The child of Caribbean immigrants, Thompson was introduced to poetry at an early age and has been writing ever since. Today, she shares her poem, Seed of Mango, Seed of Maize.