1548 Episodes

  1. 709: Work Song

    Published: 7/1/2022

  2. 708: Bruised Peaches

    Published: 6/30/2022

  3. 707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction

    Published: 6/29/2022

  4. 706: Scavenged

    Published: 6/28/2022

  5. 705: The Bats

    Published: 6/27/2022

  6. 704: Hunter's Moon

    Published: 6/24/2022

  7. 703: A Thousand Cardinals

    Published: 6/23/2022

  8. 702: Slow Drag with Branches of Pine

    Published: 6/22/2022

  9. 701: Summer Sorrow

    Published: 6/21/2022

  10. 700: Juneteenth, 2020

    Published: 6/20/2022

  11. 699: Photosynthesis

    Published: 6/17/2022

  12. 698: Morning Freight

    Published: 6/16/2022

  13. 697: When Light Leaves Her Eyes

    Published: 6/15/2022

  14. 696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor

    Published: 6/14/2022

  15. 695: Pastoral

    Published: 6/13/2022

  16. 694: Romance Is in the Air

    Published: 6/10/2022

  17. 693: Portrait of the Artist

    Published: 6/9/2022

  18. 692: Other Women's Babies

    Published: 6/8/2022

  19. 691: Final Poem for the "Field of Poetry"

    Published: 6/7/2022

  20. 690: Deportation

    Published: 6/6/2022

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