Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchRay Young Bear — Our Bird Aegis
Season 8 Episode 12
What holds our bodies together? Yes, there are the biological components, such as the cells, fluids, fibers, but what about the bone-deep stuff, the …
1 year, 11 months ago
Suji Kwock Kim — Search Engine: Notes from the North Korean-Chinese-Russian Border
Season 8 Episode 11
While disputes over contested lands result in damage that can be seen and documented, they also create countless unseen ruptures in the hearts, minds…
1 year, 11 months ago
Amber McBride — ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS
Season 8 Episode 10
In “ROLL CALL: NEW TAROT NAMES FOR BLACK GIRLS,” Amber McBride treats us to a playful litany of language that twists and leaps and never stumbles. Fl…
1 year, 11 months ago
Carl Dennis — Breath
Season 8 Episode 9
A fragile and wondrous technology that we all possess, the human breath powers any number of things in our lives — speeches, feats of music, athletic…
1 year, 11 months ago
Elisa Gonzalez — To My Twenty-Four-Year-Old Self
Season 8 Episode 8
Our lives are filled with distances, the physical spans that we travel but also the stranger, vaster expanses between our past and our present or bet…
1 year, 11 months ago
Ofelia Zepeda — Deer Dance Exhibition
Season 8 Episode 7
Most of us do our eavesdropping shyly and secretively, but Ofelia Zepeda’s poem “Deer Dance Exhibition” welcomes us to listen in on an exchange betwe…
1 year, 11 months ago
Sandra Cisneros — When in Doubt
Season 8 Episode 6
Even in the most uneventful of human lives, uncertainty and doubts will inevitably intrude. When faced with those, what can you do to steady yourself…
1 year, 11 months ago
Kandace Siobhan Walker — Three Mangoes, £1
Season 8 Episode 5
To be alive is to be in conversation with the dead. The ghosts of loved ones are always swirling around us, and sometimes we’re lucky enough to catch…
2 years ago
Francisco Aragón — Asleep You Become a Continent
Season 8 Episode 4
It is an intimate thing, to watch a lover while they sleep. In Francisco Aragón’s translation of Francisco X. Alarcón’s homoerotic poem, “Asleep You …
2 years ago
Conor Kerr — Winter Songs
Season 8 Episode 3
Conor Kerr’s “Winter Songs” depicts a future scene: coyotes roaming through a rewilded city, digging up the bones of Indigenous ancestors who then re…
2 years ago