In honor of National Poetry Month, Arizona's State Poet Laureate Alberto Rios dropped by K-BACH for a conversation with Sterling Beeaff about poetry, education, the value and power of language, "Poems of Public Purpose" and more.

Included in this interview is the poem, "In Giving is all We Have", recently published as part of a new book of poems, A Small Story About the Sky, by Alberto Rios.