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As I look back on 2020 and forward to 2021, there is one word that continues to pop into my mind: resiliency. Just like all of you reading this, 2020 threw the MTPR staff curveball after curveball. The MTPR team persevered, bounced back and became even more resilient than they were before to provide you uninterrupted coverage when you needed it the most. If only you could see the behind the scenes shuffle and hustle to make this all work! Ray Ekness is the director of the Broadcast Media Center. The MTPR News team, including our online team, have been in overdrive this year. They covered the ...

'Elegy for the Disappeared,' By Forrest Gander This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read “Elegy for the Disappeared,” by Forrest Gander, which was written in collaboration with Kay Rosen (see “Phantom Limb”). The poem was originally published with the Shelter in Poems initiative on poets.org. Forrest Gander is the author of several poetry collections, including  Be With (New Directions, 2018), winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He currently serves on the Board of Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets. Tags: 

Putting on the Dog: Animal Origins of What We Wear. Melissa Kwasny Her writings are also widely published in journals, including Willow Springs, Threepenny Review, Ploughshares, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review,Orion, Bellingham Review, Kenyon Review, and Boston Review. Kwasny's poems and essays are also included in the anthologies The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral, Montana Women Writers: A Geography of the Heart, Poems Across the Big Sky, and New Poets of the American West, as well as West of 98: Living and Writing the American West. Kwasny is the recip...

Harper’s, The Paris Review, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, Poetry, and The Best American Poetry. He has been a Bread Loaf Fellow, a Lannan Foundation Marfa Residency Fellow, and writer-in-residence at George Washington University and the Richard Hugo House. He is a coordinator of the Idyllwild Arts Summer Writers Week and co-hosts, with novelist J. Robert Lennon, the podcast Lunch Box, with Ed and John. He has been a visiting writer at the University of Montana, and lives in Portland. Tags: 

'Then I Slept,' By Heidi Seaborn This week for Honor, Hope and Healing Week, listen to host Lauren Korn read "Then I Slept," by Heidi Seaborn. Heidi Seaborn is Executive Editor of The Adroit Journal and author of Give a Girl Chaos (C&R Press/Mastodon Books, 2019) and two chapbooks. Since Heidi started writing in 2016, she’s won or been shortlisted for over two dozen awards. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in American Poetry Journal,