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October 8, 2017: it's a literary double-header, with the author of Lincoln of the Bardo, in advance of his upcoming Lawrence appearance. We'll also hear from National Book Award- winning poet Terrance Hayes.

Hot off the presses from Emporia! It's The 105 Meadowlark Reader, the newest journal of Kansas creative non-fiction, plus a new book by Kevin Rabas.

Kansas Poet Laureate Huascar Medina has a new podcast, a new book, and plenty to keep him busy these days. Join Kaye McIntyre for a conversation with Medina on this week's KPR Presents.

Nine months into the COVID-19 pandemic, how're you doing? We hear from KPR listeners in this special rebroadcast of Quarantine Stories, your self-recorded thoughts, essays, and poems.

This week on KPR Presents: it's a conversation with disability rights activist Judith Heumann, co-author of "Being Heumann" and the keynote speaker at KU's upcoming symposium marking the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Education of Corporal John Musgrave is the new memoir by Vietnam veteran, writer, and activist John Musgrave of Baldwin. Join us for this encore broadcast of Musgrave's powerful 2017 conversation with Kaye McIntyre.

From President Dwight Eisenhower to ICBM bases to the made-for-TV movie, The Day After -- the surprisingly large role of Kansas during the Cold War.

Gay Paris, perfume, intrigue, Nazis: join us for a conversation with Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief.

We travel back 50 years to "Kansas 1972" and the fight for the ERA in Kansas. It's the fourth episode of "Kansas 1972," a continuing series from Humanities Kansas.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright passed away last week at the age of 84. In this special encore broadcast from the KPR Presents archives, we revisit Albright's 2006 talk at the University of Kansas Lied Center, sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics.