1533 Episodes

  1. 1133: The Alien by Greg Delanty

    Published: 6/5/2024

  2. 1132: Felonious States of Adjectival Excess Featuring Comparative and Superlative Forms by A. H. Jerriod Avant

    Published: 6/4/2024

  3. 1131: How It Will End by Denise Duhamel

    Published: 6/3/2024

  4. 1130: Cy Twombly's Untitled (Say Goodbye Catullus, to the shores of Asia Minor) by Javier O. Huerta

    Published: 5/31/2024

  5. 1129: Hagar in the Wilderness by Tyehimba Jess

    Published: 5/30/2024

  6. 1128: Post-Industrial Society Has Arrived by Vidhu Aggarwal

    Published: 5/29/2024

  7. 1127: Two Paintings Seen Again by Rachel Hadas

    Published: 5/28/2024

  8. 1126: Not So Much an End as an Entangling by Linda Gregerson

    Published: 5/27/2024

  9. 1125: English by Janel Pineda

    Published: 5/24/2024

  10. 1124: What Good Is A Castle by Linda Susan Jackson

    Published: 5/23/2024

  11. 1123: In the House With No Doors by Sarah Kay

    Published: 5/22/2024

  12. 1122: Childhood by David Baker

    Published: 5/21/2024

  13. 1121: The Empire of Light by Michael Dumanis

    Published: 5/20/2024

  14. 1120: Monet Refuses the Operation by Lisel Mueller

    Published: 5/17/2024

  15. 1119: A Black Doe in the Anthropocene by Artress Bethany White

    Published: 5/16/2024

  16. 1118: At My Funeral by Hélène Cardona

    Published: 5/15/2024

  17. 1117: I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

    Published: 5/14/2024

  18. 1116: Mercy by Dessa

    Published: 5/13/2024

  19. 1115: Frame Six by Cheswayo Mphanza

    Published: 5/10/2024

  20. 1114: The Mothers by Jill Bialosky

    Published: 5/9/2024

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