1638 Episodes

  1. 1048: You & the Donkey Cart

    Published: 1/24/2024

  2. 1047: To The Stone-Cutters

    Published: 1/23/2024

  3. 1046: After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On

    Published: 1/22/2024

  4. 1045: Sonnet for Ochún

    Published: 1/19/2024

  5. 1044: Mixed Marriage

    Published: 1/18/2024

  6. 1043: from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad

    Published: 1/17/2024

  7. 1042: Ode to Badminton

    Published: 1/16/2024

  8. 1041: By Then

    Published: 1/15/2024

  9. 1040: The Idea of Order at Key West

    Published: 1/12/2024

  10. 1039: What Good Is Silence

    Published: 1/11/2024

  11. [encore] 877: The Lifeline

    Published: 1/10/2024

  12. 1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings

    Published: 1/9/2024

  13. 1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers

    Published: 1/8/2024

  14. 1036: Pleasure

    Published: 1/5/2024

  15. 1035: The Darkling Thrush

    Published: 1/4/2024

  16. 1034: Cliché

    Published: 1/3/2024

  17. 1033: On Meeting My Biological Father

    Published: 1/2/2024

  18. 1032: Counting, This New Year’s Morning, What Powers Yet Remain To Me

    Published: 1/1/2024

  19. 1031: Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear

    Published: 12/29/2023

  20. 1030: Fourth Wall Arpeggio

    Published: 12/28/2023

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