1546 Episodes

  1. 807: Short Essay on Love

    Published: 2/6/2023

  2. 806: Polycardial

    Published: 2/3/2023

  3. 805: Discourse

    Published: 2/2/2023

  4. 804: Foxglove

    Published: 2/1/2023

  5. 803: In Light of Stars

    Published: 1/31/2023

  6. 802: Heirloom

    Published: 1/30/2023

  7. 801: Landscape with Things

    Published: 1/27/2023

  8. 800: We Wear the Mask

    Published: 1/26/2023

  9. 799: Fragment (Stone)

    Published: 1/25/2023

  10. 798: Improvement

    Published: 1/24/2023

  11. 797: Night Terrors in America

    Published: 1/23/2023

  12. [encore] 740: Shucking Oysters

    Published: 1/20/2023

  13. [encore] 552: Hammond B3 Organ Cistern

    Published: 1/19/2023

  14. [encore] 630: Don't Think

    Published: 1/18/2023

  15. [encore] 691: Final Poem for the "Field of Poetry"

    Published: 1/17/2023

  16. [encore] 570: Asking About My Mother

    Published: 1/16/2023

  17. [encore] 696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor

    Published: 1/13/2023

  18. Returning with new host Major Jackson

    Published: 1/12/2023

  19. [encore] 581: Red-ish Brown-ish

    Published: 1/12/2023

  20. [encore] 625: Not everything is a poem

    Published: 1/11/2023

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