Burning Bright

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

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

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

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

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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. 

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

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Views of becoming a soldier, living through war and remembering with pieces by James P. Hanley, Tom Buchanan and Pantea Amin Tofangchi.

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A look at sports and fans, with pieces by Bill Smoot, Gilbert Arzola and Kathy Mangan.

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On this episode, the old country and the new country, with pieces by Diana Anhalt, Zeina Azzam and Judith Krummeck. 

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Four poems paying tribute to our mothers, by Wilderness Sarchild, Mary Lou Rife, Diana Morley and Ilene Millman.

The cover art for this episode is from a painting by Tia Cross titled “The Chat.” 

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