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On this edition of Conversations, P. C. Cast talks with host Dan Skinner about “Found” the fourth and final novel in the bestselling “House of Night Other…

The Career and Art of Italian Bariton Pasquale Amato Engineer(s): Chubias Smith

In celebration of Black History Month, KPR Presents the Fisk Jubilee Singers, an a capella group that has shared the music of the African-American spiritual with people around the world. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, under the direction of Paul Kwami, performed in connection with the Aaron Douglas Conference sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith & Rob Fitzgerald

00000184-7fa9-d6f8-a1cf-7fad1e210000This week on KPR Prsents, the "Kansas Reads" book for 2009... The Virgin of Small Plains. We'll hear from author Nancy Pickard about this tale of a mysterious death set in the Flint Hills.

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On this edition of Conversations, talks with host Dan Skinner about the second book in the trilogy, “Tristan Strong Destroys the World.” Mbalia is the New…

This week marks the 50th anniversary of end of the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower. Tune in 8:00 Sunday evening as presidential historian Richard Norton Smith returns to the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas, and speaks with his successor, Director Bill Lacy, about our 34th president as part of the 2011 presidential lecture series on a "20th-century Mount Rushmore." Engineer(s): Lawrence Bush

This week's KPR Presents features highlights from "Poet Laureati 2011," a gathering of twenty poets laureate in Lawrence. Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg organized this event, which featured poets laureate from all over the country, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser. This program is a joint project between Kansas Public Radio and Angela Elam of "New Letters on the Air," produced by the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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Every year the Center for the Book at the State Library of Kansas compiles a list of the best new books by Kansans or about Kansas. This week on KPR Presents, it's Part Two of the Kansas Notable Books, with interviews with seven of this year's authors. If you missed Part One of the Kansas Notable Books list, you can find it archived here on our website under "KPR Presents."