Burning Bright

Burning Bright

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Burning Bright episodes

  • Frida Kahlo’s Death

    The trials, tribulations and beauty of possessing a body, featuring poems by Jane Ellen Glasser, Susan Okie, Don Thompson, Joyce LaMers, and Larnell Custis Butler.

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    10 min
  • New Technologies

    A thoughtful meditation on sliced bread, featuring poems by Lynn Wood Dizard, Madelyn Garner, and Patricia Bollin.

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    8 min
  • Semiquincentennial

    Celebrating America’s 250th birthday, featuring work by Dan Shiffman, Will Reger, Keli Osborn and Anne Sheldon.

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    9 min
  • Mel Brooks

    Celebrating Mel Brooks' birthday with pieces by Jo Miles, Richard Moore, and Maryhelen Snyder. 

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    8 min
  • Paul McCartney

    Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 84th birthday with poems by Penny Altman, Michele Wolf, Tracy K. Lewis, and Henry Morgenthau III.

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    7 min
  • Teachers

     Celebrating the end of the school year with poems by Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Ilene Millman, Harriet Stratton, and Cathleen Cohen. 

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    8 min
  • Hope

    Finding hope, featuring poems by Tom Large, Ed Gold, Chuck Tripi, and Martha Fox. 

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    7 min
  • The Church

    Pieces on confessions and spirituality from Peggy Schimmelman, Dwayne Thorpe, and Anastasia Vassos.

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    8 min
  • Picks by Passager Interns

    Celebrating our spring semester interns with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Fran Markover, Ruth Goring, and Wilderness Sarchild. 

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    11 min

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