Berent LaBrecque, Valerie Loveland, Adam Stone, and Zanne Langlois read from Ilya Kaminsky's award winning collection, Deaf Republic.

0:00 - Valerie Loveland reads "Dramatis Personae", plus intros

7:50 - Adam Stone reads "The Map of Bone And Opened Valves"

13:17 - Valerie Loveland reads "A Bundle Of Laundry"

15:37 - Zanne Langlois reads "Yet, I Am:"

19:15 - Berent LaBrecque reads "In A Time Of Peace"

25:31 - Berent LaBrecque reads "We Lived Happily During The War"

Music provided by Pixabay, including:

"Dark Ambient" by TheoJT

"Happy Inspiring Upbeat Acoustic" by Vivaleum

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The subject of yesterday's podcast, Valerie Loveland, drops in to talk about Justin Jannise's collection, How To Be Better By Being Worse.

0:00 - Adam Stone reads "How To Be Better By Being Worse", plus intros

3:27 - Adam Stone reads "Flamingosexual"

7:29 - Valerie Loveland reads "That Time My Aunt Stole A Stetson From A Dead Dentist"

11:09 - Adam Stone reads "Poem With Trap Door"

14:28 - Valerie Loveland reads "Falling With Adele"

19:29 - outro

Music provided by Pixabay, including:

"Retro Funk Energetic Background Music" by Music_Unlimited

"Hawaii Vacation" by Tvari

"Historia de un amour" by 24575281

"On The Ride" by Octosound

"Dance Anthem 1" by free-to-use-audio

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It's our first episode, and it's National Poetry Month!

Join Terry Blade, Kelly J. Cooper, Berent LaBrecque, March Penn, Adam Stone, Rob Sturma, and Sue Savoy as they discuss Valerie Lovelan's latest book, [Unsolved Mysteries Theme Song], a collection of poems about the 80s/90s TV show "Unsolved Mysteries" and Robert Stack. Also ghosts, a ton of ghosts show up.

00:00 - Kelly J. Cooper reads "Never Marry A Man Who's Been On Unsolved Mysteries", plus intros

03:06 - Sue Savoy's real life "Unsolved Mysteries" experience

04:51 - Who has and who has not seen "Unsolved Mysteries" before

07:52 - Berent LaBrecque reads "Where Does A Person Go When They Disappear?"

13:41 - Adam Stone reads "Sometimes People Aren't Actually Lost"

16:38 - Sue Savoy reads "Hidden Treasure Doesn't Want To Be Found"

19:18 - Terry Blade reads "When A Widower Is Interviewed On Unsolved Mysteries"

22:26 - Rob Sturma reads "Robert Stack Is A Series of Tubes"

27:12 - March Penn reads "Robert Stack Does Not Believe In Ghosts"

30:11 - Outro

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