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Back to SearchJoshua Bennett — Owed to Your Father’s Gold Chain
Season 5 Episode 13
Sometimes when your world changes, it seems like everything turns towards you, fresh, new, and curious.
Joshua Bennett is the author of The Sobbing S…
3 years, 7 months ago
Abigail Chabitnoy — If You’re Going to Look Like a Wolf They Have to Love You More Than They Fear You.
Season 5 Episode 12
How would you tell your own creation myth? Who — or what — would be in it?
Abigail Chabitnoy is the author of How to Dress a Fish (Wesleyan 2019), wi…
3 years, 7 months ago
M. Soledad Caballero — Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain
Season 5 Episode 11
In the face of wonder, we can sometimes lose ourselves.
M. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and chair of the Women’s Gender and Sexuality St…
3 years, 8 months ago
Rafiq Kathwari — Mother Writes to President Eisenhower
Season 5 Episode 10
Would you write a letter to a world leader? Do you think they’d listen? What would you say?
Rafiq Kathwari is the first Kashmiri recipient of the Pat…
3 years, 8 months ago
Caroline Bird — Little Children
Season 5 Episode 9
Children’s demands can be high, and their standards can be exacting. It’s a good thing they’re loveable.
Caroline Bird grew up in Leeds, the daughter…
3 years, 8 months ago
Marilyn Nelson — The Truceless Wars
Season 5 Episode 8
What do we achieve in our fighting? How can we turn to hope and our deepest nature?
Marilyn Nelson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of a sch…
3 years, 8 months ago
Richard Blanco — Looking for The Gulf Motel
Season 5 Episode 7
Is something lost once it’s gone? How do we blend sadness with sweet memory?
Richard Blanco practiced civil engineering for more than 20 years. He is…
3 years, 8 months ago
Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places
Season 5 Episode 6
Is the light a comfort and the night disturbing? Yusef Komunyakaa explores the life and brilliance of what’s in shadow and darkness.
Yusef Komunyakaa …
3 years, 8 months ago
Hannah Emerson — Keep Yourself at the Beginning of the Beginning
Season 5 Episode 5
A poem inviting us to discover our brilliance and our nothingness. Both true. Both vital.
Hannah Emerson is the author of The Kissing of Kissing. She…
3 years, 8 months ago
Kyle Carrero Lopez — Ode to the Crop Top
Season 5 Episode 4
A song of praise to the crop-top from a crop-top-wearing man who encounters comments in public and sings and swings.
Kyle Carrero Lopez was born to C…
3 years, 8 months ago