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On this episode, we revisit our conversation with Robin Patten about her book "The Mountain: Journeys in High Places."

We're joined by Michael de Yoanna, managing editor of the Mountain West News Bureau.

Kirk Siegler is a national correspondent for NPR News. As a roving reporter, he covers the western U.S. with an emphasis on rural issues, water and the effects of climate change on smaller communities.

Brooke Williams writes about evolution, consciousness, and his own adventures exploring both the inner and outer wilderness. We revisit our conversatin from March.

We talk with Dan Murphy, whose collection of poems "Estate Sale" was published by University of Utah Press. He won the 2024 Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry.

Today we’ll mark a decade of USU’s Farm in Literature and Culture course. Our guests include USU lecturers, professors, and a USU student who says the class has had a continuing influence on her life.

In these poems, Sunni Brown Wilkinson reckons with seismic losses such as a stillborn son and strained relationships, alongside more abstract and existential pains. We revisit our conversation.

We revisit our conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of Citizen Potawatomi Nation.

Today we’re doing another nonprofit spotlight. There are many needs in our communities and many step up to help.

Today we talk with Felipe Torres Medina, a comedian and writer for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.