1533 Episodes

  1. 934: Labor Theory of Value

    Published: 8/2/2023

  2. 933: Penmanship

    Published: 8/1/2023

  3. 932: Letter to my sister

    Published: 7/31/2023

  4. 931: Epilogue

    Published: 7/28/2023

  5. 930: elegy for the moaner, 2016

    Published: 7/27/2023

  6. 929: this is a library

    Published: 7/26/2023

  7. 928: Prayer

    Published: 7/25/2023

  8. 927: Via Politica

    Published: 7/24/2023

  9. 926: from "The Garden of Limbs"

    Published: 7/21/2023

  10. 925: Country of Water

    Published: 7/20/2023

  11. 924: Theme for the nautical cowboy

    Published: 7/19/2023

  12. 923: A Funeral Ending with Beyoncé

    Published: 7/18/2023

  13. 922: Not It

    Published: 7/17/2023

  14. 921: Dear Red

    Published: 7/14/2023

  15. 920: Invented Landscape

    Published: 7/13/2023

  16. 919: Take This Poem

    Published: 7/12/2023

  17. 918: Vision from the Blue Plane-Window

    Published: 7/11/2023

  18. 917: Love and the Deli Counter

    Published: 7/10/2023

  19. 916: from "fabula: towards a black mirror”

    Published: 7/7/2023

  20. 915: Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic?

    Published: 7/6/2023

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