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838: The Truth
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Mar 21 2023
837: Fire Destroys Beloved Chicago Bakery
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Mar 20 2023
836: A City Like a Guillotine Shivers on Its Way to the Neck
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Mar 17 2023
835: "anyone can be beautiful:
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Mar 16 2023
834: Two Boys Ago
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Mar 15 2023
833: The Railroad Worm
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Mar 14 2023
832: The Illiterate
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Mar 13 2023
831: Panama Hat
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Mar 10 2023
830: What's Been Caged
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Mar 9 2023
829: Don't Touch
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Mar 8 2023
828: Against Poetry
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Mar 7 2023
827: Naming the Waves
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Mar 6 2023
826: How
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Mar 3 2023
825: Hotter Than July
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Mar 2 2023
824: Head of Anahit / British Museum
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Mar 1 2023
823: Salmon
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Feb 28 2023
822: Cricket Song
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Feb 27 2023
821: I Have No Idea What's Going to Happen
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Feb 24 2023
820: Jesus Saves
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Feb 23 2023
819: Egrets (in memory of Barry Lopez)
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Feb 22 2023
818: Everything Lies in All Directions
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Feb 21 2023
817: Context is all
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Feb 20 2023
816: The Freeways Considered As Earth Gods
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Feb 17 2023
815: My Mother Talks to Her Son About Her Heart
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Feb 16 2023
814: on persona
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Feb 15 2023
813: Forgiveness, Perhaps
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Feb 14 2023
812: September
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Feb 13 2023
811: Possum
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Feb 10 2023
810: There Is No Touchdown Here, Belichick
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Feb 9 2023
809: A Statement from No One, Incorporated
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Feb 8 2023
808: Birds in Home Depotโ€”December
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Feb 7 2023
807: Short Essay on Love
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Feb 6 2023
806: Polycardial
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Feb 3 2023
805: Discourse
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Feb 2 2023
804: Foxglove
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Feb 1 2023
803: In Light of Stars
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Jan 31 2023
802: Heirloom
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Jan 30 2023
801: Landscape with Things
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Jan 27 2023
800: We Wear the Mask
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Jan 26 2023
799: Fragment (Stone)
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Jan 25 2023
798: Improvement
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Jan 24 2023
797: Night Terrors in America
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Jan 23 2023
[encore] 740: Shucking Oysters
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Jan 20 2023
[encore] 552: Hammond B3 Organ Cistern
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Jan 19 2023
[encore] 630: Don't Think
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Jan 18 2023
[encore] 691: Final Poem for the "Field of Poetry"
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Jan 17 2023
[encore] 570: Asking About My Mother
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Jan 16 2023
[encore] 696: Reading Szymborska at Friday Harbor
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Jan 13 2023
Returning with new host Major Jackson
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Jan 12 2023
[encore] 581: Red-ish Brown-ish
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Jan 12 2023
[encore] 625: Not everything is a poem
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Jan 11 2023
796: It Must Be The Supermarket in Me
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Jan 10 2023
[encore] 643: Eventually / One Point Where We Arrive
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Jan 9 2023
[encore] 719: Museum of Sex
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Jan 6 2023
[encore] 555: Private Property
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Jan 5 2023
[encore] 772: On Friendship
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Jan 4 2023
[encore] 513: Romantics
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Jan 3 2023
[encore] 769: Meeting at an Airport
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Jan 2 2023
[encore] 739: Cherry Blossoms (link not available)
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Dec 30 2022
[encore] 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood
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Dec 29 2022
[encore] 562: The Lonely Humans
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Dec 28 2022
[encore] 685: Trees at Night
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Dec 27 2022
[encore] 576: Taking Down the Tree
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Dec 26 2022
[encore] 627: Don't Say Love Just Signal
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Dec 23 2022
[encore] 584: Marte
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Dec 22 2022
[encore] 699: Photosynthesis
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Dec 21 2022
[encore] 567: Besaydoo
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Dec 20 2022
[encore] 511: Present Tense
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Dec 19 2022
[encore] 575: How I Learned Bliss
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Dec 16 2022
[encore] 622: Self-Portrait With Woman On The Subway
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Dec 15 2022
[encore] 692: Other Women's Babies
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Dec 14 2022
[encore] 547: Travel
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Dec 13 2022
[encore] 665: Metro-North
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Dec 12 2022
[encore] 559: Parable of Childhood
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Dec 9 2022
[encore] 649: sunrise through mount vernon, wa.
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Dec 8 2022
[encore] 654: In the End You Get Everything Back (Liza Minnelli)
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Dec 7 2022
[encore] 717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward
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Dec 6 2022
[encore] 509: Wondrous
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Dec 5 2022
[encore] 705: The Bats
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Dec 2 2022
[encore] 634: Nest
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Dec 1 2022
[encore] 519: Missing Cat
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Nov 30 2022
[encore] 618: Elegy for Kentucky
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Nov 29 2022
[encore] 651: Training
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Nov 28 2022
[encore] 689: Alive at the End of the World
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Nov 25 2022
[encore] 523: Our Valley
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Nov 24 2022
[encore] 508: Rehearsal for the New World
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Nov 23 2022
[encore] 673: New Town
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Nov 22 2022
[encore] 521: Invocation
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Nov 21 2022
[encore] 662: To Be in Love
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Nov 18 2022
[encore] 612: After the Fire
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Nov 17 2022
[encore] 549: Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised as a Love Poem
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Nov 16 2022
[encore] 534: The moon rose over the bay. I had a lot of feelings. (link not available)
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Nov 15 2022
[encore] 648: Love is a Luminous Insect at the Window
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Nov 14 2022
[encore] 644: Georgia O'Keeffe, "From the Faraway, Nearby," 1937 (link not available)
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Nov 11 2022
[encore] 611: During the Pandemic I Listen to the July 26, 1965, Juan-les-Pins Recording of A Love Supreme
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Nov 10 2022
[encore] 646: every exquisite thing
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Nov 9 2022
[encore] 595: Pegasus Autopsy
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Nov 8 2022
[encore] 615: The Studio
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Nov 7 2022
[encore] 629: Halfway (link not available)
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Nov 4 2022
[encore] 683: I Have a Rendezvous With Life
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Nov 3 2022
[encore] 518: Metamorphosis: The Female Into
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Nov 2 2022
636: How to Hold the Heavy Weight of Now
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Nov 1 2022
795: The End of Poetry
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Oct 31 2022
794: High Fidelity
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Oct 28 2022
793: Children Listen
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Oct 27 2022
792: Trash
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Oct 26 2022
791: Love Poem
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Oct 25 2022
790: Anxiety checks her phone again
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Oct 24 2022
789: hoop snake
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Oct 21 2022
788: John Muir, A Dream, A Waterfall, A Mountain Ash
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Oct 20 2022
787: The Orange
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Oct 19 2022
786: Compassion Comes Late
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Oct 18 2022
785: Magdaleneโ€”The Seven Devils
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Oct 17 2022
784: Sex Without Love
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Oct 14 2022
783: The Beginning of the Beginning
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Oct 13 2022
782: The Strength of U
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Oct 12 2022
781: Cut Apple
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Oct 11 2022
780: Edward Hopper Study: Hotel Room
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Oct 10 2022
779: My Rock (link not available)
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Oct 7 2022
778: Batter My Heart, Transgender'd God
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Oct 6 2022
777: The Lightkeeper
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Oct 5 2022
776: Bonfire Brides
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Oct 4 2022
775: A Case Study of Beethoven's Nine Symphonies
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Oct 3 2022
774: Uncertainty Principle at Dawn
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Sep 30 2022
773: The Dead Are Beautiful Tonight
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Sep 29 2022
772: On Friendship
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Sep 28 2022
771: Your Damage
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Sep 27 2022
770: And
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Sep 26 2022
769: Meeting at an Airport
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Sep 23 2022
768: Lately I Am Trying
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Sep 22 2022
767: Love Poem
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Sep 21 2022
766: All I Know
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Sep 20 2022
765: a fishing story.
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Sep 19 2022
764: Fides, Spes
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Sep 16 2022
763: Erasure of Girlhood
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Sep 15 2022
762: Home is still possible thereโ€ฆ
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Sep 14 2022
761: After
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Sep 13 2022
760: Song
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Sep 12 2022
759: Gitanjali 60
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Sep 9 2022
758: What You Missed That Day You Were Absent from Fourth Grade
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Sep 8 2022
757: February Augury
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Sep 7 2022
756: Songs for the People
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Sep 6 2022
755: On Being Asked, "What Is Your Dream Job?"
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Sep 5 2022
754: from SHIFTING THE SILENCE
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Sep 2 2022
753: List of Things To Say Instead of "I'm Fine"
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Sep 1 2022
752: Snow
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Aug 31 2022
751: Behaving Like a Jew
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Aug 30 2022
750: Ars Poetica
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Aug 29 2022
749: Sun Goes Up
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Aug 26 2022
748: gather them & give them back to me.
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Aug 25 2022
747: The rest of a life
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Aug 24 2022
746: A Study of Beauty
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Aug 23 2022
745: My Name Is Not The Cruelest Month
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Aug 22 2022
744: Contentment
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Aug 19 2022
743: And the Word Was God
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Aug 18 2022
742: In the end we are humanlike: Blade Runner 2049
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Aug 17 2022
741: Another Attempt at Rescue
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Aug 16 2022
740: Shucking Oysters
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Aug 15 2022
739: Cherry Blossoms
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Aug 12 2022
738: Park Benches with Teeth
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Aug 11 2022
737: A Small Moment
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