1533 Episodes

  1. 914: Voices of the Air

    Published: 7/5/2023

  2. 913: America, I Do Not Call Your Name without Hope

    Published: 7/4/2023

  3. 912: Poem

    Published: 7/3/2023

  4. 911: The Messenger

    Published: 6/30/2023

  5. 910: How Long Could I Have Been Weightless?

    Published: 6/29/2023

  6. 909: My Dearest Black-Billed Streamertail

    Published: 6/28/2023

  7. 908: After the Farm was Sold to FedEx

    Published: 6/27/2023

  8. 907: A State of Permanent Visibility

    Published: 6/26/2023

  9. 906: Self-Portrait as Derivatives Trader

    Published: 6/23/2023

  10. 905: Voyeur

    Published: 6/22/2023

  11. 904: The Statues and Us

    Published: 6/21/2023

  12. 903: Boy Shooting at a Statue

    Published: 6/20/2023

  13. 902: Morning in a City

    Published: 6/19/2023

  14. 901: The Poet

    Published: 6/16/2023

  15. 900: In An Elevator with Ashbery, Crossing Stanzas, Bashfully

    Published: 6/15/2023

  16. 899: Areyto for the Shipwrecked: The Case for Spanglish

    Published: 6/14/2023

  17. 898: from THIRSTY

    Published: 6/13/2023

  18. 897: Emptying

    Published: 6/12/2023

  19. 896: Portrait of My Father With the Letter V

    Published: 6/9/2023

  20. 895: Burnt Plastic

    Published: 6/8/2023

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