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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.

Migrants held by U.S. authorities at a detention center in rural New Mexico say they have endured retaliation rather than aid after reporting unsanitary conditions at the government-contracted jail.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Miniature liquor bottles could soon return to stores in Utah after the state agency that oversees alcohol approved a rule change.

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.