Burning Bright

Burning Bright

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Burning Bright episodes

  • Thanksgiving

    Excerpts from Illinois writer Julie McCracken's memoir “Lord, Please Let Me Live Until Strawberry Season,” published in Passager in 1992.

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    5 min
  • Battered Wife

    Excerpts from Iowa writer Pam Kress-Dunn’s memoir “Love and Fury in a Plastic Box,” from the 2019 Passager Open Issue.

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    5 min
  • Lizzie the Coyote

    Excerpt of an essay by Oaxaca writer Robert Joe Stout called “Laughing at the Moon," published in the 2017 Open Issue of Passager.

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    6 min
  • Back to School

    Two poems by New York poet Harry Bauld from his book, The Uncorrected Eye, and Indiana poet Gilbert Arzola, from his book, Prayers of Little Consequence.

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    6 min
  • Food

    Two poems by poets Ruth Mota (2018 Passager Poetry Contest) and Leatha Kendrick (2017 Passager Poetry Contest).

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    7 min

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