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What happens when you combine a renowned singer-songwriter, the Kansas Poet Laureate, and 62 high school students? Find out on this week's KPR Presents, when we'll hear the latest collaboration between Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Kelley Hunt, including a piece they wrote in partnership with the Lawrence High School A Capella choir, "Dream It All." Kaye McIntyre is your host for KPR Presents, 8:00 Sunday evenings on Kansas Public Radio. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

What happens when you combine a renowned singer-songwriter, the Kansas Poet Laureate, and 62 high school students? Find out on this week's KPR Presents, when we'll hear the latest collaboration between Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Kelley Hunt, including a piece they wrote in partnership with the Lawrence High School A Capella choir, "Dream It All." Kaye McIntyre is your host for KPR Presents, 8:00 Sunday evenings on Kansas Public Radio. Engineer(s): Chubby Smith

Week of January 27, 2019: Lawrence filmmaker and Oscar nominee Kevin Willmott talks about "The BlacKkKlansman." We'll also hear from Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg about her novel, "Miriam's Well."

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Week of April 29, 2018: We celebrate National Poetry Month with five Kansas Poets Laureate, past and present: Kevin Rabas, Eric McHenry, Wyatt Townley, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, and Denise Low.

We're celebrating National Poetry Month with former Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and Ottawa poet Shannon Carriger.

This week's KPR Presents features former U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winner Ted Kooser, from a reading sponsored by the University of Kansas Libraries. We'll also hear the collaborative efforts of Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg and singer-songwriter Kelley Hunt, in a reading performed at the Lawrence Public Library.

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.

More than 20 poets laureate from across the country are coming to Lawrence March 13th. We'll talk to Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg about the upcoming events, which include a reading by former U.S. Poet Laurate Ted Kooser, and find out how YOU can join in the wordfest. We'll also visit with mystery writer Sara Paretsky, winner of the 2011 Governor's Distinguished Arts Award, granted by the Kansas Arts Commission.

Week of June 10, 2018: Hippies, love beads, tie-dye -- what do you remember about the 1960s and 1970s? We'll visit the "Free State, Free Spirits" exhibit at the Watkins Museum, now in its final week. We'll also visit with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg about her two latest books.