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The Western Colorado Community Foundation and Tri-County Health Network are building stronger communities on the Western Slope. From scholarships and outdoor education for youth to behavioral health funds that make counseling affordable, these local efforts show the power of neighbors helping neighbors across KVNF’s listening area.

In this episode, we talk with Michael Kleber-Diggs about the importance of mentors and how sometimes they transition to colleagues as we find our own footing in our creative work, stepping into our own creative identity. He reads “What Name for This,” from his book Worldly Things, and we use the poem as a launching pad to talk about creative relationships, why we write and how attentiveness to the specific can lead us to questions about the universal, and making art out of the ordinary. And, in thinking about the role of the artist in a difficult time, Michael shares his controversial idea about the role of the artist in “dark times.”

This week on local motion KVNF’s Ashley Krest and Andrea Castillo take you into the heart of Telluride for the 48th Annual Telluride Jazz Festival. We feature interviews with musicians and the community members who keep the spirit of jazz alive.

Colorado’s top water agency to review future of the Shoshone water right.

Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.

Part of her job at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, writes Marjorie ‘Slim’ Woodruff, is patrolling trails and picking up what hikers forgot or casually left behind. The weirdest find, which earned her the nickname “The lady who found the body,” was a sealed, shiny urn containing somebody’s cremains. There’s always something peculiar or downright perplexing to discover on a trail, she adds, from an empty backpack to a queen-sized bed sheet and just one shoe.

KVNF's Call in gardening show.

Your local almanac for gardening, landscaping, and much more for your home and valley living.

One day, nationally acclaimed poet Maria Kelson hit “a poetry wall” for no identifiable reason. “It was frustrating,” she says, “because I had devoted myself to poetry. For 15 years, it was my primary focus.” What happened next–she followed an emerging passion, crime fiction. ‘As i was casting about I thought, I want to explore the dark side.” In this episode we talk with Maria about shedding layers of creative identity, finding new community, art as a way to explore and expose issues of social injustice, and the surprising ways poetry informs her new award-winning thriller.