1542 Episodes

  1. 245: Push the Week

    Published: 11/1/2019

  2. 244: We Are Not Responsible

    Published: 10/31/2019

  3. 243: My Aunts

    Published: 10/30/2019

  4. 242: Falling from the Roof of the Free World

    Published: 10/29/2019

  5. 241: Lisle, Illinois, November 1972

    Published: 10/28/2019

  6. 240: Processional

    Published: 10/25/2019

  7. 239: Elegy for Almost

    Published: 10/24/2019

  8. 238: Cindy Comes To Hear Me Read

    Published: 10/23/2019

  9. 237: Workshop

    Published: 10/22/2019

  10. 236: Polaroid Ode

    Published: 10/21/2019

  11. 235: Body and Soul

    Published: 10/18/2019

  12. 234: Last Kiss

    Published: 10/17/2019

  13. 233: On the D Train

    Published: 10/16/2019

  14. 232: My Embodiment

    Published: 10/15/2019

  15. 231: My Grandmother's Love Letters

    Published: 10/14/2019

  16. 230: My Mother of Invention

    Published: 10/11/2019

  17. 229: Pig

    Published: 10/10/2019

  18. 228: Hair

    Published: 10/9/2019

  19. 227: Club Icarus

    Published: 10/8/2019

  20. 226: No War

    Published: 10/7/2019

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