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It's a conversation with three Emporia writers: Tracy Million Simmons and Cheryl Unruh, creators of "105 Meadowlark Reader," and poet Kevin Rabas, author of "More than Words."

This week on KPR Presents, we travel back 50 years to "Kansas 1972." It's the first episode in a new podcast from Humanities Kansas, looking at this pivotal year in American and Kansas history.

In connection with LGBTQ History Month, 51 Years Out is a week of events highlighting the fight for LGBTQ rights at KU, Lawrence, and Kansas.

From the story of a small town's hospital to the British author of The Father Brown Mysteries: we'll hear from two writers on this week's KPR Presents -- Brian Alexander, author of The Hospital, and John Tibbetts, author of The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton.

A story of love and luck that travels from rural Kansas to the casinos of Las Vegas and the racetracks of California. "On Swift Horses" is the debut novel by Kansas native Shannon Pufahl. Also, "Kansas 1972" explores the Chicano rights movement in Topeka.

Kansans will vote for governor, attorney general, members of Congress, and two constitutional amendments and more this November 8. Join Washburn University's Bob Beatty, the Kansas News Service's Jim McLean, and KPR's Kaye McIntyre for a preview of the 2022 Kansas elections.

Meet Myrtle Hardcastle, the heroine of Premeditated Myrtle, winner of the prestigious Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery and a Kansas Notable Book.

We mark the 50th anniversary of Title IX with the "Mother of Women's Sports at KU," Marlene Mawson, who launched the women's intercollegiate athletics program at the University of Kansas.

The world is on the verge of a global food crisis. David Beasley, the head of the UN World Food Program, spoke at KSU's most recent Landon Lecture Series.

Two Kansas children's book authors take on political protest: the Wichita Dockum lunch counter sit-in of 1958 and the farm crisis of the 1970s and '80s.