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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Poems about food from Wendy Hoffman, Christine Higgins, and Fran Markover. 

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Selections from the forthcoming 2025 Poetry Contest issue, featuring poems by Philip Stern, Buffy Shutt, Susan Miller, and Byron Hoot. 

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Honoring the memory of Marian McQuade, with poems and a letter by Richard Levine, Alice Duggan, and Sue Marcus. 

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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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Observing the beauty of nature, featuring four poems by Catherine Young, Deborah Casillas, Robert Tremmel and J. I. Kleinberg.

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Celebrating International Kissing Day with romantic poems by John Davis, Clarinda Harriss and Terry S. Johnson.

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A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an outgoing interview with founding editor Kendra Kopelke.

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Welcoming summer's arrival, featuring poems by Mary Jo Balestreri, Margaret Hoehn, Kirby Olson and Sarah Yerkes.

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Commemorating family history, featuring work by Dan Shiffman, Roberta Schine and Nicholas Samaras, plus excerpts from an interview with Roy Cheng Tsung.

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