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Exploring the Beauty of the Natural World with Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Also on Arizona Spotlight: How federal tax cuts will be felt in Arizona; and essayist Adiba Nelson considers the challenge of blending a family.
by Mark McLemore

aimee nezhukumatathil green hero Author, poet & educator Aimee Nezhukumatathil.
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Featured on the January 19th, 2018 edition of ARIZONA SPOTLIGHT with host Mark McLemore:

  • Christopher Conover looks at how the recently passed federal tax cuts could result in Arizonans paying more state taxes. Some estimates say as much as $290 million dollars could be added to state coffers...

  • Listen to a new edition of The Word with essayist Adiba Nelson as she considers the challenges of finding the perfect recipe for a blended family...


adiba nelson in downtown tucson spotlight Adiba Nelson
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  • Explore the beauty of the natural world through the words of Aimee Nezhukumatathil (pronounced neh-ZOO / koo-mah / tah-TILL), a poet and English professor at the University of Mississippi who visited Tucson in the fall of 2017 as a guest of the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Nezhukumatathil reads two poems, Swear Words and The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with A Cherry Farmer...


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