1533 Episodes

  1. 1153: Illumination by Natasha Trethewey

    Published: 7/3/2024

  2. 1152: from "The Crystal Text" by Clark Coolidge

    Published: 7/2/2024

  3. 1151: I Tune My Body and My Brain to the Music of the Land by Natalie Shapero

    Published: 7/1/2024

  4. 1150: Fuji, Ararat by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias, translated by Eduardo Aparicio

    Published: 6/28/2024

  5. 1149: Agony's Rasp by Garous Abdolmalekian, translated by Ahmad Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

    Published: 6/27/2024

  6. 1148: Urine Season by Niina Pollari

    Published: 6/26/2024

  7. 1147: A Book of Music by Jack Spicer

    Published: 6/25/2024

  8. 1146: Lonely Women by Choi Seungja, translated by Won-Chung Kim and Cathy Park Hong

    Published: 6/24/2024

  9. 1145: Love Poem by the Light of the Refrigerator by Alisha Dietzman

    Published: 6/21/2024

  10. 1144: Horse by TR Brady

    Published: 6/20/2024

  11. 1143: Screenplay by Harryette Mullen

    Published: 6/19/2024

  12. 1142: Hyperacusis by Santee Frazier

    Published: 6/18/2024

  13. 1141: When I Was in My Early Thirties I Saw Elton John in a Nightclub in Atlanta Called Tongue and Groove by Khadijah Queen

    Published: 6/17/2024

  14. 1140: Fish, Serpent, Egg, Scorpion by Kwame Dawes

    Published: 6/14/2024

  15. 1139: Dolly Would by Julie E. Bloemeke

    Published: 6/13/2024

  16. 1138: Orientation by Cindy Juyoung Ok

    Published: 6/12/2024

  17. 1137: i have an irrational fear of spiders by Charlie Getter

    Published: 6/11/2024

  18. 1136: Visible Light by Heidi Seaborn

    Published: 6/10/2024

  19. 1135: At the Rainbow Cattle Company by Bruce Snider

    Published: 6/7/2024

  20. 1134: Americans by Katie Peterson

    Published: 6/6/2024

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