1545 Episodes

  1. 966: Love Poem, with Birds

    Published: 9/15/2023

  2. 965: from "Excess Sonnets"

    Published: 9/14/2023

  3. 964: abundance of light

    Published: 9/13/2023

  4. 963: Frederick Douglass

    Published: 9/12/2023

  5. 962: Afternoon in Andalusia

    Published: 9/11/2023

  6. 961: Nocturne

    Published: 9/8/2023

  7. 960: I’m Nobody! Who are you? (260)

    Published: 9/7/2023

  8. 959: On Earth

    Published: 9/6/2023

  9. 958: Alain Locke in Stoughton Hall

    Published: 9/5/2023

  10. 957: Rooms by the Sea

    Published: 9/4/2023

  11. 956: Hair

    Published: 9/1/2023

  12. 955: Love Sits by My Father

    Published: 8/31/2023

  13. 954: In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa

    Published: 8/30/2023

  14. 953: Two Photographs

    Published: 8/29/2023

  15. 952: Failed Essay on Privilege

    Published: 8/28/2023

  16. 951: I wanted music

    Published: 8/25/2023

  17. 950: from FIXER

    Published: 8/24/2023

  18. 949: Thirty-Fifth Year

    Published: 8/23/2023

  19. 948: Willing in the Orisha

    Published: 8/22/2023

  20. 947: Famous

    Published: 8/21/2023

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