Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label radio. Show all posts
Saturday, May 09, 2026

MIGRACIONES

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by David Chorlton on World Migratory Bird Day Music in flight from the border tonight and it’s pulling miles of starlight behind it. Darknes...
Friday, April 03, 2026

HARRY HINES BLVD, DALLAS, TX, 0647 AM

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by Kay White Drew Taillights stream by like corpuscles thru blood vessels, branches off the aortic arch (there’s a mnemonic for that I’ve fo...
Sunday, March 30, 2025

PERIOD PAINS

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by Adele Evershed On the radio, they talk about having a temper, as if it’s a wild creature, something you house in your chest—either caged ...
Tuesday, April 16, 2024

WAR SONGS AND OTHER LAMENTS

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by Adele Evershed In the quiet of a collective breath-holding / Ladies Night / accidentally played on the radio / so an Israeli spokesman / ...
Monday, July 25, 2022

I DREAMED LAST NIGHT

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by Gordon Gilbert I dreamed last night of seasons of unrest that lie ahead: Saddled on nightmare steeds with fiery nostrils, eyes of cold bl...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

HEAT WAVE

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by W. Luther Jett Muffled staccato— summer voices too distant to be understood—I try not to stress the circuitry mid-day— douse the lights, ...
Thursday, July 30, 2020

LISTENING TO JOHN LEWIS’S FUNERAL

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by Penelope Scambly Schott Yes, the singing, the speakers, relatives, co-workers, mayor, yes, three former presidents (though...
Tuesday, July 21, 2020

POWER OUTAGE

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by Laura Rodley No Covid here, just sleeping dog, sleeping cat, no Covid here, doorknobs wiped off, laundry dry, no Covid here, bre...
Friday, May 08, 2020

QUARANTINE AUBADE

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by Juditha Dowd "Lifeline" by Pascal Campion The trucker is hauling food. We often hear him down on the river road aroun...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

LULL

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by Rick Mullin Another month of stay-at-home-or-die. The choice is getting tougher day by day! A toss-up in the waning April sky a...
Friday, February 09, 2018

ON HEARING LOSS

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by Melissa Bentley A poster in Kasur, Pakistan, includes a picture of Zainab and the message: "Protest. Protest. Protest. Daughter...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

SUNDAY MORNING IN ST. LOUIS

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by George Salamon Police arrested at least 22 people in a protest at the St. Louis Galleria on Saturday, September 23 amid the continu...
Saturday, November 19, 2016

FOR THE PLEASURES OF SERIOUSNESS

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by David Chorlton “ But I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people ha...
Monday, January 25, 2016

THE DAY THE POLKAS CRIED

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by Laura Rodley For thirty-seven years Billy Belina drove in early morning light or total dark to spin the polkas on WMUA on Satu...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND: ISLA VISTA, 2014

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by Marjorie Maddox Aftermath. Photo by Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times . “Seen through a bullet hole, IV Deli Mart owner Michael Hassan...
Friday, November 01, 2013

75 YEARS LATER

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by Mark Danowsky I put on my headphones in preparation to head out with the dog, tuned in to public radio, but paused hearing, Our arm...