1543 Episodes

  1. 724: Conditionally

    Published: 7/22/2022

  2. 723: Divorce

    Published: 7/21/2022

  3. 722: Ghazal for Dogeaters

    Published: 7/20/2022

  4. 721: Self-Portrait as Duckie Dale

    Published: 7/19/2022

  5. 720: The Trees are Down

    Published: 7/18/2022

  6. 719: Museum of Sex

    Published: 7/15/2022

  7. 718: Weeding

    Published: 7/14/2022

  8. 717: Afterlife with a Gentle Afterward

    Published: 7/13/2022

  9. 716: Without

    Published: 7/12/2022

  10. 715: I Dream of Horses Eating Cops

    Published: 7/11/2022

  11. 714: A Personality Test

    Published: 7/8/2022

  12. 713: how to make her stay

    Published: 7/7/2022

  13. 712: Saguaros

    Published: 7/6/2022

  14. 711: Droplet

    Published: 7/5/2022

  15. 710: Acknowledgments

    Published: 7/4/2022

  16. 709: Work Song

    Published: 7/1/2022

  17. 708: Bruised Peaches

    Published: 6/30/2022

  18. 707: Poem for My Children Born During the Sixth Extinction

    Published: 6/29/2022

  19. 706: Scavenged

    Published: 6/28/2022

  20. 705: The Bats

    Published: 6/27/2022

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