Burning Bright

Ox Horn Bend 21.12.2021 6:09 ↓

Fathers and long-awaited answers, with excerpts from Ox Horn Bend by Roy Cheng Tsung. Support the show

The Solitude of Memory 14.12.2021 7:19 ↓

Empathy and experience, with poems about love, war and blindness, from The Solitude of Memory by Michael Miller. Support the show

Grandfather's Mandolin 07.12.2021 7:11 ↓

Ancestors traveling their paths to the future, with excerpts from Grandfather’s Mandolin  by Fran Markover. Support the show

Payments 30.11.2021 7:31 ↓

The price of dowry and passage, with pieces by Gavin Kayner and Renny Golden. Support the show

Thanksgiving 23.11.2021 7:00 ↓

Cooking and expectation, with pieces by Maureen Hossbacher, Jim Taylor and Larnell Custis Butler. Support the show

Time 16.11.2021 6:01 ↓

How we experience time, with poems by Steve Matanle, Diana Anhalt, Jennifer Burd and Sarah Yerkes. Support the show

Veterans Day 09.11.2021 5:40 ↓

The people that survived, with pieces by James McGrath and Mark G. Carter. Support the show

Things in Trees 02.11.2021 6:44 ↓

Apples, birds and wishes, with poems by Jean Connor, Fran Markover, Pat Anthony and Jennifer Wallace. Support the show

Driving 26.10.2021 6:26 ↓

Unexpected destinations, with poems by Roger Pfingston,  John Hovde, Jesse Arthur Stone and Shirley Brewer. Support the show

Churches 19.10.2021 5:27 ↓

Churches and change, with pieces by Amy Gottfried and Sharon Doyle. Support the show

Masks 12.10.2021 6:44 ↓

Masks: literal and metaphorical, with pieces by Miriam Karmel, Art Cohen, Ruth Beker and Henry Morgenthau III. Support the show

2021 Passager Poet 05.10.2021 5:56 ↓

Highlighting the 2021 Passager Poet Gail DiMaggio with two of her contest-winning "mettas."  Support the show

2021 Contest Issue 27.09.2021 6:32 ↓

Four poems from the new poetry contest issue, by Marie Fochios, Gail Newman, Colleen Anderson and Jan Mordenski.  Support the show

Autumn 21.09.2021 6:51 ↓

Memories of young passion, with poems by Victoria Korth and Kathy Mangan, and in honor of National Cooking Day – a poem by Ruth Mota. Support the show

Music 14.09.2021 5:43 ↓

Two pieces sort of about music, by Donna Pucciani and Timothy Reilly. Support the show

September 08.09.2021 5:12 ↓

Football, Grandparents Day and Rosh Hashanah, with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Liliane Roy Anders and Fran Markover. Support the show

Puttin' It All on Hold 27.07.2021 5:22 ↓

Summer break, with poems by Jennifer Wallace and Judith Arcana. Support the show

Poems or Girdles? 20.07.2021 6:05 ↓

Two form poems, by Antoinette Kennedy and Lynn Dizard. Support the show

You Can Count On It 13.07.2021 6:44 ↓

Three pieces about numbers from Wilderness Sarchild, Christine O'Connor and Marie Anderson. Support the show

Classical Surprises 06.07.2021 5:22 ↓

Detention, indigestion, and other muses with pieces by Leon Arden and Dennis H. Lee.  Support the show

4th of July 29.06.2021 5:43 ↓

Two very different takes on fireworks, with pieces by Jack Ritter and Victoria Wyatt.  Support the show

Juneteenth 22.06.2021 5:58 ↓

This episode celebrates Juneteenth, with pieces by Mary Carter Smith, Lucille Clifton and Larnell Custis Butler.  Support the show

Father's Day 15.06.2021 6:20 ↓

Four pieces about fathers and food, by Ruth Holzer, Greg Moglia, Shirley J. Brewer and Roy Cheng Tsung. Support the show

The 17-Year Locusts 08.06.2021 6:26 ↓

Ok, not locusts — cicadas! If you’re in much of the eastern part of the United States these days, you’ve probably had the mixed blessing of dodging them, stepping on them, listening to them, and sticking their shells to your nose or eyebrows. Poems by Sophia Rivkin, Mary Azrael and Barbara Crooker.  Support the show

First Anniversary 01.06.2021 5:21 ↓

A look back to Passager’s beginnings back in 1990, with poems by former US Poet Laureate Josephine Jacobsen and Judson Jerome. Support the show