1542 Episodes

  1. [encore] 649: sunrise through mount vernon, wa.

    Published: 12/8/2022

  2. [encore] 654: In the End You Get Everything Back (Liza Minnelli)

    Published: 12/7/2022

  3. [encore] 717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward

    Published: 12/6/2022

  4. [encore] 509: Wondrous

    Published: 12/5/2022

  5. [encore] 705: The Bats

    Published: 12/2/2022

  6. [encore] 634: Nest

    Published: 12/1/2022

  7. [encore] 519: Missing Cat

    Published: 11/30/2022

  8. [encore] 618: Elegy for Kentucky

    Published: 11/29/2022

  9. [encore] 689: Alive at the End of the World

    Published: 11/25/2022

  10. [encore] 523: Our Valley

    Published: 11/24/2022

  11. [encore] 508: Rehearsal for the New World

    Published: 11/23/2022

  12. [encore] 673: New Town

    Published: 11/22/2022

  13. [encore] 521: Invocation

    Published: 11/21/2022

  14. [encore] 662: To Be in Love

    Published: 11/18/2022

  15. [encore] 612: After the Fire

    Published: 11/17/2022

  16. [encore] 549: Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem

    Published: 11/16/2022

  17. [encore] 534: The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings.

    Published: 11/15/2022

  18. [encore] 648: Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window

    Published: 11/14/2022

  19. [encore] 644: Georgia O'Keeffe, "From the Faraway, Nearby," 1937

    Published: 11/11/2022

  20. [encore] 611: During the Pandemic I Listen to the July 26, 1965, Juan-les-Pins Recording of A Love Supreme

    Published: 11/10/2022

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