Caitlin Doyle thinks about romance novels at the end of a relationship. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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Sandra Doller meditates on aging and motherhood. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Divya Victor considers the effects of transnational migration on family life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Jennifer Foerster imagines encountering her younger self on a walk through the streets of Vienna. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Wendy Lotterman wonders what home invasion and poetry have in common. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Emmalea Russo recalls a Skype healing session and remembers the death of her aunt Vera. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Lotte L.S. considers the legacy of British poet and political activist Anna Mendelssohn. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Emily Sieu Liebowitz begins a poem by wondering if the Trojan Horse was merely a metaphor for written language. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Dora Malech reflects on the way gun violence and school shootings have affected her own life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Sawako Nakayasu imagines eating a bowl of girl soup and the conundrum posed by her own intervention. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Emily Skillings writes a tribute to poet John Ashbery who died in September of 2017. Produced by Sarah Geis.

Rodney Koeneke considers the mystery and language of riddles. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Stacy Szymaszek writes a poem in gratitude to her students. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Khaled Mattawa remembers the sense of hope felt during the Arab Spring and at the prospect of having a second child. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Kirsten Ihns considers the way a poem can dance the reader’s mind. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Eric Baus demonstrates how the powerful can learn from something seemingly small and weak. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Hai-Dang Phan examines archival documents concerning the abduction of a young Vietnamese woman by Thai pirates in the 1980s. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Cedar Sigo pays tribute to the poet Joanne Kyger, who died in March of 2017. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Maureen Thorson recalls details of her life in 1989 when she was 10 years old. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Jared Stanley imagines how climate change will displace populations and what that could mean for one’s family. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

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Kimberly Lyons interrogates the purchase of second-hand clothes and the writing of poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

André Naffis-Sahely visits the desert of Arizona and contemplates the cruelty of the Trump Administration’s policy of family separation at the southern border. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Jasmine Gibson writes a love poem to her partner. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Will Alexander finds ways of writing poems to revitalize language as a whole. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Katy Bohinc leaves Paris and writes a poem of apology after a misunderstanding with someone close to her. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Patricia Spears Jones considers the dynamics of race through the lens of a 1930s Mae West film. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Geoffrey Hilsabeck imagines a conversation between Walt Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson as they walk through Boston Common.

Ginger Ko imagines the near future when humans will possess a fully automated representative. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Callie Garnett makes an ad pitch for her poetry. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Norma Cole meditates on the Syrian refugee crisis. Produced by Colin McNulty.

Chris Glomski considers the variables that comprise a human life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Justin Phillip Reed imagines an inverted history of slavery. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Jessica Laser considers wisdom, poetry, and procrastination. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Simone White documents a mother’s life with her infant son. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Christine Kanownik examines the place of religion and spirituality in secular life. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Chris Martin composes a list of things one might do in hell. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Brian Lucas takes a speculative look at figures of deception. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Ana Božičević explores the feelings and emotions of spring. Produced by Sarah Geis.

Jay Besemer considers heredity and the uncertainty of one’s past. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Elisa Gabbert meditates on the nature of suffering and the language we use to describe it. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Rusty Morrison recalls an encounter in an airport and considers how touch can be a source of knowledge. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Julian Talamantez Brolaski considers the way we use pronouns to signal gender. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Richard Blanco remembers the 17 students killed in a mass-shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on February 14th, 2018. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Stephanie Ellis Schlaifer imagines the prospect of a God who may have created humanity in order to battle evil. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Katy Lederer recalls her experience with in vitro fertilization and finds poetry in the language of science. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Evie Shockley expresses frustration over ongoing immigration policies and thinks about ways Americans might better live together. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Donika Kelly recalls a class field trip to a sea lion sanctuary in the sixth grade and questions why certain lives are valued above others. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Kim Parko considers the politics of the word “bitch.” Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Diana Khoi Nguyen meditates on the importance of exchanging marital vows. Produced by Katie Klocksin.

Hayan Charara considers how the world would be different today if certain historically significant events had not taken place in the late 1990s. Produced by Sarah Geis.

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