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Poor Will’s Almanack for the third week of early summer.

The orange flowers of the day lily are the signature of early summer across the nation's midsection. With them come waves of parallel seasons.

Wright State University is among 6 Ohio universities that are partnering with the state as part of a new program aimed at training students and health care professionals to better serve Ohio's Medicaid population. Medicaid provides coverage for the poor though state and federal funding.

Conrad Balliet reads Gary Mitchner's poem, "Valve."

Sometimes people will ask me: "how do you pick the books and authors that you choose to feature on your program?" The answer isn't complicated. I look for books that are compelling, entertaining, well-written.

Frank Wheeler Jr. recently published "The Wowzer." It is his first published book. I started to read it and was immediately drawn in to this story. Our narrator is Jerry, a deputy sheriff in a rural county in the Ozarks. Jerry has a unique perspective on the world. As we look through his eyes at the reality that he sees we are drawn in to his life.

Full episode of WYSO Weekend for June 3, 2012 containing the following stories:

-Jerry Kenney interviews Joshua Fields Millburn & Ryan Nicodemus, authors of The Minimalists

-New Ohio Guide: Where North Meets South, by San Hendren

-WYSO's Miller Fellow Jennifer Carlson has a sound portrait of a book release party at Mills Lawn Elementary in Yellow Springs