"Voices from the Prairie":

During the 7:30 - 8:00 a.m. segment of Saturday's "Weekend Edition," hear "Voices from the Prairie," a feature offered by Humanities Iowa and KUNI. Iowa's farmer poet Michael Carey shares a poem each week written by an Iowan. After each week's 2-3 minute poem has aired, it is archived here. If you are looking for a much older file, visit KUNI's Past Audio Archives.

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4/02/05--Carl Dennis: "Snow"
4/09/05--James Galvin-- "Materialism"
4/16/05--Michael Carey--"Plato's Answering Machine"
4/23/05--Seamus Heaney-- "Personal Helicon"
4/30/05--Joy Harjo-- "Perhaps the World Ends Here"
5/07/05--Ted Kooser-- "A Sound in The Night"
5/14/05--Billy Collins-- "Forgetfulness"
5/21/05--Sandra Mcpherson-- "One Way She Spoke To Me"
5/28/05--Rustin Larson-- "Tell Me About The Wasp Again"
6/04/05--Robert Burns--"Green Grow the Rashes"
6/11/05--Anonymous--"Seeing Is Believing"
6/18/05--Debra Marquart--"Usual Magic"
6/25/05--William Butler Yeats--"Down by the Salley  Gardens"
7/02/05--Robert Burns--"Green Grow the Rashes"
7/09/05--Anonymous--"Seeing Is Believing"
7/16/05--Debra Marquart--"Usual Magic"
7/23/05--William Butler Yeats--"Down by the Salley  Gardens"
7/30/05--Anonymous--"The Gift Inside"
8/6/05--Mel Wilk--"Househusband"
8/13/05--John Clare--"Mouse's Nest"
8/20/05--Robert Dana--"Yes, Everything"
8/27/05--Anonymous--"The Known Fields"
9/03/05--Gerard Manley Hopkins--"God's Grandeur"
9/10/05--William Ford--"Summer of Twelve"
9/24/05--Henry Carlile--"Flying"
10/01/05--Rebecca Wee--"Ceasura"
10/08/05--Anonymous--"Following Instructions"
10/15/05--Rustin Larson--"The Recluse"
10/29/05--John Clare--"I Am"
11/05/05--Robert Burns--"Is There for Honest Poverty"
11/12/05--Anonymous--"Evensong Eternal"
11/19/05--Sarah Cotterill: "In the Nocturnal Animal House"
11/26/05--Jon Anderson-- "Good Morning Little School Girl"
12/10/05--Anonymous--"Distracted"
12/17/05--Gerard Manley Hopkins-- "Inversnaid"
12/24/05--WIlliam Butler Yates-- "Before the World Was Made"
12/31/05--Daniel Dahlquist-- "The Armadillo"
1/07/06--Anonymous-- "The Other World in this One"
1/14/06--WIlliam Butler Yates-- "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
1/21/06--Robert Burns-- "A Red, Red Rose"
2/04/06--Gerald Stern--"American Heaven"
2/11/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez-- "Butterfly of Light" and "The Little Green Girl"
2/18/06--Robert Tremmel-- "I Read Two Articles in the Paper This Morning"
2/25/06--Leah Nielsen-- "Hraesvelg, the Eagle Called Corpse-swallower"
3/04/06--Ann Struthers-- "The End of the Day"
3/11/06--Ken McCullough-- "White Space"
3/18/06--Carla Christianson-- "Transplanting Peonies"
3/25/06--Kiette Ratzlaff-- "Grain Elevator Explosion"
4/29/06--Molly Peacock-- "Cutting Tall Grass"
5/06/06--Mark Doty-- "Heaven for Helen"
5/13/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez -- "Sleepelss" and  "Seas"
5/20/06--James Tate-- "Being Present at More then One place at a Time"
5/27/06--Mark Doty-- "To the Engraver of my Skin"
6/03/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez-- "Nocturne"
6/10/06--W.S.Merwin-- "Avoiding News by the River"
6/17/06-- Jack Gilbert-- "Failing and Flying"
6/24/06--Joseph Bruchac-- "Canticle"
7/01/06--Harryette Mullen-- "Dim Lady"
7/08/06--Sharon Olds-- "Bread"
7/15/06--Carolyn Wright-- "Prayer"
7/22/06--Annie Finch-- "Night Call"
7/29/06--Dorianne Laux-- "The Idea of Housework"
8/05/06--Stephen Corey-- "Whatever Light"
8/12/06--Deborah Leiter-- "Midsummer's Eve"
8/19/06--Ron Koertge-- "My Students"
8/26/06--Julia Kasdorf-- "When Our Women Go Crazy"
9/02/06--Linda Pastan-- "Remembering Frost at Kennedy's Inauguration"
9/16/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez-- "Walt Whitman"
9/23/06--Tania Pryputniewicz-- "God's in the Butter"
9/30/06--Cole Swensen-- "Birds"
10/07/06--Megan Johnson-- "How it Came to Pass"
11/04/06--Carl Sandburg-- "To Beachy, 1912"
11/11/06--Joshua Marie Wilkinson-- "A Boy of Six Cups His Hands"
11/18/06--Cole Swensen-- "Sun"
11/25/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez-- "An Imitator of Billy Sunday"
12/02/06--Ginger Andrews-- "Down on My Knees"
12/09/06--W.S. Merwin--"Prophecy"
12/16/06--Juan Ramon Jimenez--"A Banquet" and "Going Around New York"
12/23/06--Joshua Marie Wilkinson-- Fragments of  "Lug Your Careless Body Out of the Careful Dusk": "A Cape of Blood"
12/30/06--Bruce Weigl--"On Not Finding Frost's Grave in the Dark"

If you are looking for an older file, visit KUNI's Past Audio Archives.