Burning Bright

By Passager

Passager’s weekly podcast, presenting poetry and prose by writers over 50. Hosted by Jon Shorr.

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The podcast currently has 252 episodes available.

Burning Bright episodes:

October 28, 2025 College
Writing about College from Joyce Abell, Terry Miller, and Winifred Hughes.
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8min
October 21, 2025 Words for Webster
Celebrating Noah Webster with poems about words from Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Sherri Stepakoff, Sarah Yerkes, and Hal Grinberg.
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8min
October 14, 2025 Indigenous Peoples' Day
Poems about Indian Schools from Red Hawk and Joel Savishinsky, and a painting from Alma Roberts.
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7min
October 07, 2025 World Teachers’ Day
Tributes to teachers from Roy Cheng Tsung and Maureen Murphy Woodcock.
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7min
September 30, 2025 October is for Oceans
Recognizing October is for Oceans month, with pieces from Passager’s Pandemic Diaries series from Mark Tochen, Johan Fremling, Isabel Learza, and Suzanne Iuppa.
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9min
September 23, 2025 National Cooking Day
Poems about food from Wendy Hoffman, Christine Higgins, and Fran Markover.
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7min
September 16, 2025 A Peek Inside the New Issue
Selections from the forthcoming 2025 Poetry Contest issue, featuring poems by Philip Stern, Buffy Shutt, Susan Miller, and Byron Hoot.
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7min
September 09, 2025 National Grandparents’ Day
Honoring the memory of Marian McQuade, with poems and a letter by Richard Levine, Alice Duggan, and Sue Marcus.
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6min
July 15, 2025 An Interview with Susan Baur
A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an interview with Susan Baur, founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG) and author of "In the Company of Turtles."
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17min
July 08, 2025 Nature
Observing the beauty of nature, featuring four poems by Catherine Young, Deborah Casillas, Robert Tremmel and J. I. Kleinberg.
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8min

FAQs about Burning Bright:

How many episodes does Burning Bright have?

The podcast currently has 252 episodes available.