Alumni News
McCanna Featured on Poets on the Plains
“In-Between Country,” a poem by Alysse Kathleen McCanna MFA ’15, was featured on High Plains Public Radio’s program Poets on the Plains.
Reports Juan J. Morales, assistant professor of English at Colorado College and a poet in Pueblo, Colorado, on HPPR:
"Alysse teaches at Colorado Mountain College in the Vail Valley, and she has lived along the Colorado Front Range and Oklahoma, amongst other places in the past. This poem appears in Alysse’s book, Fish Wife, which was the winner of the 2025 Colorado Book Award, a collection that scrutinizes our relationships when they succeed and fail, and it also reconciles definitions, pressures, and defiances of wifehood and womanhood. There’s also some wonderful witchiness and magic in there too."