1631 Episodes

  1. 1291: Our Bodies by Michael Bazzett

    Published: 2/10/2025

  2. 1290: Statement of Teaching Philosophy by Keith Leonard

    Published: 2/7/2025

  3. 1289: Things I Want to Tell You About California by Barbara Costas-Biggs

    Published: 2/6/2025

  4. 1288: A Drink in the Night by Deborah Garrison

    Published: 2/5/2025

  5. 1287: Astronomers Locate a New Planet by Matthew Olzmann

    Published: 2/4/2025

  6. 1286: Reasons to Live by Ruth Awad

    Published: 2/3/2025

  7. 1285: It Too Remains by Glyn Maxwell

    Published: 1/31/2025

  8. 1284: When You Rise from the Dead I Drive You to the After Party by Melissa Studdard

    Published: 1/30/2025

  9. 1283: A Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Pádraig Ó Tuama

    Published: 1/29/2025

  10. 1282: Third Week of Ramadan by Sahar Romani

    Published: 1/28/2025

  11. 1281: I Want to Die by Tariq Luthun

    Published: 1/27/2025

  12. 1280: If by Imtiaz Dharker

    Published: 1/24/2025

  13. 1279: Ode to My Mama and “The Purple Dress,” circa 1992-1993 by Brittany Rogers

    Published: 1/23/2025

  14. 1278: things people like to share: by Nuar Alsadir

    Published: 1/22/2025

  15. 1277: Self-Portrait as Kendrick Lamar, Laughing to the Bank by Ashanti Anderson

    Published: 1/21/2025

  16. 1276: To Be Longing by Elizabeth Willis

    Published: 1/20/2025

  17. 1275: Love Language by Angela Narciso Torres

    Published: 1/17/2025

  18. 1274: Ennui by Luis G. Dato

    Published: 1/16/2025

  19. 1273: Sorrow Ghazal by Mary Elder Jacobsen

    Published: 1/15/2025

  20. 1272: The Paper Nautilus by Marianne Moore

    Published: 1/14/2025

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