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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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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 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.