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Jillian Weise, a current Lannan poet-in-residence, was born in Houston, Texas. She is the author of The Amputee's Guide to Sex (2007), The Colony (2010),…

On Talk At Ten, the weekday interview show, we speak with Dona Roman, the director of the Theatre Department at Sul Ross State University. She directs…

On this episode, Rachel Monroe speaks to writer Claire Vaye Watkins about her upbringing, growing up in California, and her mother's influence on her…

On this episode, Rachel Monroe speaks to Lannan writer-in-residence Kerry Howley. Howley is a contributor to New York Magazine and teaches at the…

By Marfa Public Radio StaffFor the last several months, Marfa Public Radio has been working behind the scenes on a project that many West Texans have…

The favorite pet of many people on the Llano Estacado and in the Trans Pecos is the box turtle. What makes these turtles wonderful and admirable neighbors?

The agave is one of the most recognizable of West Texas plants, with its thick, blue-green leaves and towering blooms. For Natives peoples, the agave, or…

The feature today is the word coco. It means wound, bruise, or skin cut. It’s used either as baby talk — what a young child tells a parent, or as empathetic acknowledgement of a friend or relative’s hurt. Outsiders suffer wounds and bumps. Close friends and kin have cocos.

NPR has identified three Trump administration officials with close ties to antisemitic extremists, including a prominent Holocaust denier.

Our region's vistas are iconic, but its desert scent — especially after a rain — is just as distinctive. Renowned writer Gary Nabhan will speak on the fragrances of the Chihuahua desert at Marfa's Crowley theater.