Words in the Air: 52 Weeks of Poetry

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A weekly podcast presenting one poem per week read by various voice artists placed within a unique audio diorama.

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    • May 29, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    Simple by Raymond Carver

    Play Episode Listen Later May 29, 2025 0:56


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer by Walt Whitman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 8, 2025 1:02


    Read by Marcus Ellsworth Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    On the Beach at Night Alone by Walt Whitman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2025 2:06


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Crossing Brooklyn Ferry by Walt Whitman

    Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2025 15:01


    Read by Aaron Novak   Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 1:25


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Waiting by Raymond Carver

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 1:37


    Read by Jonathon Cotton Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 17, 2025 4:01


    Read by Huw Davies Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    From the Long Sad Party by Mark Strand

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 1:35


    Read by Craig Roberts Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Four Poems for Robin by Gary Snyder

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2025 4:25


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    The Widow's Lament in Springtime by William Carlos Williams

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 1:33


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Prometheus by Lord Byron

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 4:21


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    February & my love is in another state by José Olivarez

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 1:32


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    How to Be Perfect by Ron Padgett

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 10:15


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Soon by Joe Bolton

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 20, 2025 1:57


    Read by Dave Luukkonen Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Aubade by Philip Larkin

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 4:03


    Read by Aaron Novak Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Mantle by Kevin Young

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 1:05


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    4 A.M. By Kenneth Fearing

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 4:27


    Read by Jonathon Cotton Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    As One Listens to the Rain by Octavio Paz

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 3:32


    Read by Marcus Ellsworth Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Those Winter Sundays by Robert Hayden

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 3, 2025 1:24


    Read by Stephen A. Molloy Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    What About This by Frank Stanford

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 2:07


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    3 Robinson Poems by Weldon Kees

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 2:31


    Read by Weldon Kees Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    The Day of Judgement by Jonathan Swift

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025 1:41


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Ideas by David Lynch

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2025 1:44


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Some Things Last by Ahmad Almallah

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 2:10


    Read by Ahmad Almallah Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Photo of Miles Davis at Lennies-on-the-Turnpike, 1968 by Cornelius Eady

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2025 1:03


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Mingus at the Showplace by William Matthews

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2025 1:31


    Read by Jerry Greenburg Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    All That We Have by Stephen Dunn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2025 1:57


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2025 1:16


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    New Year's Eve by D.H. Lawrence

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2024 1:02


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Would You Wear My Eyes by Bob Kaufman

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 26, 2024 1:41


    Read by Bob Kaufman Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Long Nights by Jenny Xie

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2024 2:06


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Souvenir by Edna St. Vincent Millay

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2024 1:01


    Read by Kate Valli Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Der Gilgul (The Possessed) by Jerome Rothenberg

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2024 2:31


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 1:38


    Read by Christoper Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2024 1:24


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Now I Become Myself by May Sarton

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2024 3:03


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Tattoo by Ted Kooser

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2024 0:54


    Read by Ken Marks Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Fire Dreams by Carl Sandburg

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2024 2:06


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window by Adelaide Craspey

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 25, 2024 4:02


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Nothing by Connie Wanek

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 1:16


    Read by Susan James Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Reference Back by Philip Larkin

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 1:39


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Beginning by James Wright

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2024 1:41


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Before the Mirror by Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2024 2:29


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 7, 2024 3:45


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Somewhere to Place My Ashes by George Kendrick

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 4, 2024 1:27


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    The Vampire by Conrad Aiken

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 31, 2024 7:04


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Ghost by Cynthia Huntington

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 28, 2024 2:02


    Read by Juliet Prew Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    There She Is by Linda Gregg

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 1:41


    Read by Linda Gregg Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Lamia [Left to herself] by John Keats

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 21, 2024 1:34


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    Haunted by Siegfried Sassoon

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 3:31


    Read by Christopher Kendrick Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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    I Have Folded My Sorrows by Bob Kaufman

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 14, 2024 2:04


    Read by Terry Casburn Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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