Huascar Medina: Meet the New Poet Laureate of Kansas

By Kaye McIntyre

Published April 21, 2019 at 5:00 AM CDT

Huascar Medina and Kaye McIntyre with Kansas Public Radio sign

Jon Kelly Yenser

Kevin Rabas

Week of April 21, 2019: We celebrate National Poetry Month with the new Poet Laureate of Kansas, Huascar Medina of Topeka. We'll also hear from the outgoing Poet Laureate, Kevin Rabas of Emporia, as well as Wichita native Jon Kelly Yenser, author of "The News as Usual."

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Kaye McIntyre

Kaye starts her weekends the same way you do: with Weekend Edition Saturday, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, This American Life, and To the Best of Our Knowledge. She started at Kansas Public Radio in 2001; in 2006, she became the producer of our weekly public affairs program, KPR Presents. In her spare time, she loves to read, travel, and attend theater.

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