1557 Episodes

  1. 596: Prayer of the Palo Verde Beetle

    Published: 1/25/2022

  2. 595: Pegasus Autopsy

    Published: 1/24/2022

  3. 594: What Bodies Move

    Published: 1/21/2022

  4. 593: Fragments for Subduing the Silence

    Published: 1/20/2022

  5. 592: Lavender

    Published: 1/19/2022

  6. 591: The Remaining Facts

    Published: 1/18/2022

  7. 590: "Let my anger be the celebration we were never / supposed to have."

    Published: 1/17/2022

  8. 589: addy

    Published: 1/14/2022

  9. 588: Good Death

    Published: 1/13/2022

  10. 587: An Old Story

    Published: 1/12/2022

  11. 586: Poem That Leaves Behind The Ocean

    Published: 1/11/2022

  12. 585: Complex Nonlinear Systems

    Published: 1/10/2022

  13. 584: Marte

    Published: 1/7/2022

  14. 583: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Pursuit of Gender Euphoria

    Published: 1/6/2022

  15. 582: Marrying the Wind

    Published: 1/5/2022

  16. 581: Red-ish Brown-ish

    Published: 1/4/2022

  17. 580: Walking the Dogs

    Published: 1/3/2022

  18. 579: My Empire

    Published: 12/31/2021

  19. 578: Setting Lemon Curd

    Published: 12/30/2021

  20. 577: Poem Beginning to Sound

    Published: 12/29/2021

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