Burning Bright: Recent Episodes
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A conversation with Passager's editor in chief, Rosanne Singer. Plus, an excerpt by Sara Winslow.
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Some appreciation for animals and those who care for them, with work by Graal Braun, Anne Frydman, Barbara DuCharme, Marie Ryan McMillan, and Joyce S. Brown.
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The trials, tribulations and beauty of possessing a body, featuring poems by Jane Ellen Glasser, Susan Okie, Don Thompson, Joyce LaMers, and Larnell Custis Butler.
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A thoughtful meditation on sliced bread, featuring poems by Lynn Wood Dizard, Madelyn Garner, and Patricia Bollin.
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Celebrating America’s 250th birthday, featuring work by Dan Shiffman, Will Reger, Keli Osborn and Anne Sheldon.
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Celebrating Mel Brooks' birthday with pieces by Jo Miles, Richard Moore, and Maryhelen Snyder.
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Celebrating Paul McCartney’s 84th birthday with poems by Penny Altman, Michele Wolf, Tracy K. Lewis, and Henry Morgenthau III.
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Celebrating the end of the school year with poems by Sarah Dickenson Snyder, Ilene Millman, Harriet Stratton, and Cathleen Cohen.
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Finding hope, featuring poems by Tom Large, Ed Gold, Chuck Tripi, and Martha Fox.
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Poems about Jewish American Identity, from Dennis Lee, Wilderness Sarchild, and Fran Markover.
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Pieces on confessions and spirituality from Peggy Schimmelman, Dwayne Thorpe, and Anastasia Vassos.
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Celebrating our spring semester interns with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Fran Markover, Ruth Goring, and Wilderness Sarchild.
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A three-poem preview of Proof of Life by Kathy O’Fallon, winner of the 2026 Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize.
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Commemorating the anniversary of the capture of Saigon, with excerpts from Jeffrey Minch, Michael Miller, and Gary Lark.
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Poems that take place outside, from Maura High, Beverly Osband, Sam Schmidt, and Jean Connor.
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Celebrating the start of baseball season with work from Bea Epstein, Barry Nemett, John Kimmey, and Jennifer Wallace.
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Celebrating National Siblings Day with pieces from Perie Longo, Helen Vo-Dinh, and Gail DiMaggio.
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Pieces on aging body parts by Harry Bauld, Michael Brodin, and Katherine Briccetti.
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A sneak peek into the new issue with Richard Jacobs, Hania Qutub, Mary Alice Dixon, and Robbie Gamble.
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An appreciation of literature and writers with poems by Mark Brooks, Judy Ireland, Florence Weinberger, and Bonnie Naradzay.
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Writing on the desire to be of service, from Judith Chalmer, Diana Woodcock, and Andrew Brown.
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Commemorating John Keats with odes by John Philip Drury, Myra Shapiro, and Mark Elber.
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To the moon and beyond with poets Colleen Gibbons, Mark MacAllister, and Ruth Mota.
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Elemental tangents, with poems by Jim Nawrocki, Kay Cash-Smith, and Susan Haroutunian Cunningham.
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Poems and excerpts on learning about Black history, by Kevin Nance, Elizabeth Esris, Kathleen O’Toole, and Melvin Douglas Williams.
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Recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day with pieces from Rachel Heimowitz, Claire Kahane, Fran Markover, and Rosanne Singer.
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Poems from Philadelphian writers Joy Gorson, Beth Brown Preston, and Bill Buskirk.
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Celebrating Robert Service’s Birthday, with poems by Rebecca Leet, John J. Hohn, and Pamela Wynn.
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Poems about small hopes, from Kathleen Hellen, Becky Sakellariou, Paula Sergi, and Martin Steyer.
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Pieces about Christmas and New Year's, from Nancy Smith Harris, Patric Pepper, and Liz Abrams-Morley.
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Poems from Henry Morgenthau III and past Morgenthau Prize winners Dennis Lee, Mark Elber, and Winifred Hughes.
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Featuring excerpts and poems about drunkenness from Andrew Brown, Terri Steel, and Rick Rohdenburg.
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The right of peaceful assembly, with excerpts and poems from Esther Cantu, Judy Callarman, and Tillie Friedenberg.
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Recognizing the kindness of others, with poems from David Bergman, Henry Morgenthau III, and Rhett Watts.
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Featuring pieces from Dr. Denisha Naidoo, Dr. Beverly Greenspan, and Dr. Michelle Morouse.
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Writing about College from Joyce Abell, Terry Miller, and Winifred Hughes.
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Celebrating Noah Webster with poems about words from Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Sherri Stepakoff, Sarah Yerkes, and Hal Grinberg.
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Poems about Indian Schools from Red Hawk and Joel Savishinsky, and a painting from Alma Roberts.
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Tributes to teachers from Roy Cheng Tsung and Maureen Murphy Woodcock.
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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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Anxiety and writing, featuring diary entries by Judith Beth Cohen, Kurt Schmidt and Cindy Cramer.
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Celebrating the American poet with long-lined poems by Matt Hohner, Lisa Couturier and Mark Elber.
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Harbor and danger, featuring four poems about water by Winifred Hughes, Sandy Longley, B. Morrison and Colin McKim.
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Three poet-nurses, featuring work by Marilee Pritchard, Laura Secord and Mary Hennessy.
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Turtles, poems and other coping mechanisms, featuring work by Susan Baur and Kelly DuMar.
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Birds and guidance, featuring work by Anne Frydman, Gordon Grilz and Sandy Longley.
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A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an interview with David Bergman, author of Plain Sight.
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Questions for God, featuring poems by James Littwin, Anastasia Vassos, Maryhelen Snyder and Wilderness Sarchild.
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Three poems on aging, featuring centenarians Henry Morgenthau III, Sarah Yerkes and Jean Connor.
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Routines or rites? Featuring poems by Kathy Mangan, David J. S. Pickering and Ann McGovern.
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The pieces that impacted Passager intern Arianna D'Italia, featuring work by Maureen Murphy Woodcock and Nancy Jean Hill.
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Three poems for the season and your spirits, featuring Penelope Scambly Schott, Rachel Heimowitz and Hunt Hawkins.
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A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an interview with Passager poet Fran Markover, author of Grandfather's Mandolin.
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Humanitarian callings, featuring work by James McGrath, Dian Seidel and Terry S. Johnson.
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Geographic connections to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring poems by Betty Ajemian, Marsh Muirhead and Alice Weiss.
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The pieces that impacted Passager intern Eva Fraser, featuring work by Kirsten Backstrom, Dori Hale and Rachel Eisler.
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Open hearts, featuring poems by Stefan Balan, Arthur Russell, Marda Messick and David Bergman.
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Dickensian upbringings, featuring work by Margo Davis, Eaton Jackson and Richard Moore.
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A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an interview with 2024 Henry Morgenthau III Prize Winner Winifred Hughes.
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Passager editors discuss the pieces that left lasting impressions, featuring Virginia B. Anderson, Richard Frank Gillum and Kathy O’Fallon.
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Language and expression, featuring poems by Stephen Cribari, Carolyn Moore, Laura D. Weeks and Keli Osborn.
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Where you’ve been and where you’re going, featuring four poems by Jean Nordhaus, David Galloway, Naomi Thiers and Jaque Reed.
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Beginnings, journeys, and fate, featuring poems by Maryhelen Snyder, Shirley Windward and Gilbert Arzola.
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Companionship, featuring excerpts and poems by Andrew Brown, Gary McClain Gannaway and R. A. Stewart.
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A peek inside Passager’s newest title, featuring poems by Morgenthau Poetry Prize Winner Winifred Hughes.
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For moments big and small, featuring poems by Wilderness Sarchild, Sandy Longley, Michael Miller and James K. Zimmerman.
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Commemorating an unusual anniversary with three poems by Oregonians Catherine McGuire, Henry Hughes and Kelly Sievers.
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The personal impacts of war, featuring poems by Judith Slater, Winifred Hughes, James McGrath and Michael Miller.
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Conditions, cures and coping, featuring poems by Liz Abrams-Morley, Mary Jo Balistreri and Winifred Hughes.
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Heritage and homecomings, featuring work by Regina Dilgen, Georgia Gojmerac-Leiner and Parul Shah.
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Rapture and romance, featuring work by Leon Arden, Nora Percival, Susanna Rich and Allen C. West.
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Apples, spirits, and more, featuring poems by Jean Connor, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Emily Hayes Whittle, and Fran Markover.
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Art and divinity, featuring Chicago poets Ruth Goring, Patricia McMillen and Ruth Hoberman.
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A special episode featuring an interview with 2024 Passager Poetry Contest winner Joyce Schmid.
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Selections from the brand new issue of Passager, featuring honorable mentions by Susan Zimmerman, Judith Bowles, Bonnie Jacobson, John Biggs and Mark Fryburg.
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From attorneys into authors, featuring work by John Glowney, Freddie Lee Wilson & Craig Hukill, and Margaret Flaherty.
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From young readers to older writers, featuring work by Bonnie Naradzay, Danuta Kosk-Kosicka and Michael Pikna.
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Nature and mortality, featuring poets Wilderness Sarchild, Kathy Shorr, Fran Markover and Sandy Longley live at the Wellfleet Public Library.
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Adventure and anthropomorphism featuring poems by Ann Howells, Ann Rayburn and Beth Paulson.
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Language barriers and gateways, featuring work by Lee Haas Norris, Leah Johnson, Diana Anhalt, and a translation by Mary Fung and David Lunde.
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Lovers old and new, featuring work by Susan Cohen, Catherine McGeehan, Penelope Scambly Schott and Victoria Korth.
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The silly and the serious, featuring pieces by Anne Anthony, Susan Morse and Fran Markover.
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Love and resilience, featuring poems by Mary Cronin, Karen Hones and Patti Ruskey.
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Dads here and elsewhere, featuring work by Angelo Giambra, Joyce Burd Hicks, and Susan Jo Russell.
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Separations and speculations, featuring work by Joseph Levy (translated by Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer) and Peter Nash.
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Companions and complexities, featuring work by Carol Clark Williams, Claire Kahane and Cathleen Cohen.
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Play and parenting, featuring work by Donna Emerson, Rosalie Sanara Petrouske and Donald Crane.
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War and chance, featuring pieces by David Bergman, Diane Oatley, Gary Stein and J. Philip Hysell.
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And anything but, featuring poems by Sandy Longley, Linda Goodman Robiner and Fran Markover.
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Figures of speech, featuring poems by Elizabeth Klise, Andy Macera and Conrad Hilberry.
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Physical and personal wrestlings, featuring poems by Doug Arnold, John McKernan, Susan Okie and David Sloan.
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Celebrating with sonnets by Cheryl A. Corey and Lana Ayers, plus a peek inside Winifred Hughes’s 2024 Henry Morgenthau Poetry prize-winning manuscript.
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Inspiration and speculation, featuring poems by Donna L. Emerson, Paul Fisher and Sarah Yerkes.
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Resistance and resilience, featuring work by Roy Cheng Tsung, John Glowney and Penelope Scambly Schott.
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Timely wordplay, with poems by Ronald Vossler, Shelley Smithson and Helen Wickes.
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Working through it, with pieces from Ellie Anderson, Etta Brandt, and Nikia Leopold.
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Preservation of language, love, and integrity with poetry from Beverly Greenspan, William Greenway, and Mac Greene.
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Longing for connection, with work from Joseph Hann, Dale Tushman, and Denisha Naidoo.
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Disconnections, with excerpts from stories by John Picard and James O’Sullivan.
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The power of melodies, memories and reveries, with poems by Olive Kohl Giese, Kathleen O’Toole, Diana La Com and Allen C. West.
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Mangoes, messages and unsolicited advice, with work from Texan writers Parul Shah, Viviane Vives and Janet McCann.
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Young love at any age, with work by Diana La Com, Sherman Pearl and Nancy Davidoff Kelton.
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Unlikely links to Lincoln, with work by Joel Savishinsky, Betty Orr and Christine Lincoln.
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Ravens and other metaphors, with poems by Jean Chapman Snow, Kathy Mangan and Jean Connor.
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Descendants of the Holocaust, featuring pieces by Fedora Horowitz, Fran Markover and Wilderness Sarchild.
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Spirited stories for your spirits, with pieces by Margarita Meyendorff, Leslie Gabel-Brett and Russell Rowland.
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Celebrating the milestone of this Passager co-editor with an interview. Featuring poems by Mary Azrael and Jean Connor.
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Into the archive, featuring an epistolary poem by Andrew Brown, and excerpts from cover letters and thank-you notes sent by Passager's readers and submitters over the years.
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Passager's first book prize for a writer 70 or older, with poems by its previous winners Dennis H. Lee and Mark Elber, and judge David Keplinger.
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Finding gratitude, with poems by Ida Marie Beck, Terry S. Johnson, Marya Smith and Barbara Draper.
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Threads of kindness, with poems by Elizabeth Kerlikowske, James K. Zimmerman and Larnell Custis Butler.
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Post-war poems by Vietnam War veterans Eric Forsbergh and Wayne Karlin.
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This planet and our time on it, with poems by Robert Lowes, Constance Norgren and Margaret Lloyd.
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A 16-minute episode reflecting on the Israel-Gaza conflict with offerings from Christine S. O'Connor, Shelley List, James McGrath, Ed Vojik, Rose M. Smith, Dori Hale, Jerome Gagnon, Katharyn Howd Machan, Maryhelen Snyder and Adrienne Unger.
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From Maine to Georgia, and other realms, with poems by Penny Altman, James Wyshynski and Memye Curtis Tucker.
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Pride and preservation, with poems by Catherine Allen and Andrew Brown.
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Celebrating this milestone with an excerpt from Dorothy Pula Strohecker (Issue 1) and poems by Sharron Singleton and Nan Fry (Issue 50).
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Featuring honorable mentions from the new issue of Passager, with poems by Joanne Holdridge, Liz Ahl, Laird Harrison and Nancy Lael Braun.
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Shana tova, with wayfinding poems by Liz Abrams-Morley, Amy White and Jean Connor.
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In memory of Gracie Allen, the Passager Poodle, with poems by Ann Kolakowski, Peter Nash, Gene Grabiner and Gary McClain Gannaway.
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Core memories, with pieces by Ellen Hirning Schmidt, Maureen Murphy Woodcock, Maryhelen Snyder.
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A look back on the last year at Passager and a peek ahead, with poems by Mark Elber, Sandy Longley, Christine O’Leary Rockey, Joyce S. Brown and Jo Miles.
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Poems by Marilyn Churchill, Marilyn Wallner, and Marilyn McConnell, in memory of Marilyn Shorr.
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Retrospect, with poems by Susan Lilley and Claudia Van Gerven, plus a peek inside the new issue with thoughts from contest winner George Drew.
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This holiday's other implications, with pieces by D.R. James and Roy Cheng Tsung, plus a peek inside the new issue with a poem by Keli Osborn.
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Inspired reading, with pieces by Leon Arden and Shirley J. Brewer, plus a peek inside the new issue with a poem by Charles Kesler.
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Crossovers, with poems by Monica De Bhailís, Judy Ireland and Nora Percival.
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Stirrings and strandings, with excerpts by Joyce Abell and Timothy Reilly.
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Reformations, with poems by Curt Sloan, Jesse Arthur Stone and Joyce La Mers.
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Honoring our late loved ones, with poems by Mark Elber and Fran Markover.
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Four poems in the spirit of mother-ness, introducing a new collection by Sandy Longley.
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Mother memories, with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Wilderness Sarchild, Wendy Elizabeth Ingersoll and Daniel Carpenter.
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What happens when we're at war with ourselves and others, with works by former Diana Anhalt and Arthur Rivkin.
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Contemplating what helps us bloom, with poems by Kathy Mangan, Sarah Yerkes and Catherine DeNunzio.
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It’s the soundtrack to our lives and the rhythmic telling of our destinies with poems by Diana la Com, Ruth Moon Kempher and Harry Bauld.
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The things we use to say what we need and how we feel, with poems by Tony Howarth, Sophia Rivkin and Tim Gillespie.
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Enjoying all that came before, what is here now, and what will be with poems by John Glowney, Sharron Singleton, Maryhelen Snyder and Henry Morgenthau III.
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Witness the blooming of April’s expectations and memories with poems by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro, Jim Zafris, Mike Jurkovic and April Lindner.
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Taking a deeper look into our invisible, innermost scars, with poems by Tonia Dixon, Kelly Madigan and Diana Fusting.
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Diving into the month that has transfixed history, with works by Julie Cadwallader Staub, Julia Carter Aldrich and Julie LeMay.
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Exploring the art and effects of writing, with works by Joyce Greenberg Lott, Martha Strom and Vince Granata.
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Whether we're burning them or building them, Margaret Lunden-Molinari, Gail Newman, Betty Howard and Roy Cheng Tsung understand the power and importance of bridges.
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Appreciating the form and flow of words, with poems by Wells Burgess, John Ridland, Nancy Carlson and Nan Fry.
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Embracing the sweet, and sometimes bitter, temptation of love this season, with poems by Michael Schneider, John Davis and Rachel Michaud.
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Remembering those lost to racial injustice while hoping for a brighter tomorrow, with poems by Art Cohen, Robert Nelson and Ted Lockhart.
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Oh, for Pete's sake! With works by Peter Lucas, Kimberly Peterson and Peter Hornbostel.
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Recalling memories and faces, with works from Henry Morgenthau, Dennis H. Lee and Mark Elber.
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Memories of childhood and the curious experience of our changing bodies, with works by Nancy Davidoff Kelton, Susan Okie and Wendy Taylor Carlisle.
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Another year, another lesson with poems by Maxine Gibson, Doris Watts and Melanie Dubose.
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Late December, lights shining in the darkness, with inspiring words from Andrew Brown and Gilbert Arzola.
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On flight and nightly trips, with poems by Scott Ward, Arne Weingart and Paula Colangelo.
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The season of the centaur, with pieces by Joyce Abell, Alan C. West, Nancy Davidoff Kelton and Dennis H. Lee.
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Thoughts on food and food for thought, with poems by Bonnie Jacobson, Charles Springer, Fran Markover, Sharron Singleton and Ellen Hartley.
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Post-war, with pieces by Charles West, Freddie Lee Wilson & Craig Hukill, David McAleavey and Michael Miller.
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More honorable mentions from the new issue of Passager, Lenett Partlow-Myrick, Len Freeman, Bob Shapero and Jerome Gagnon.
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Writing through it, with selections by Willa Schneberg, Michael Milburn and Jane Goldsmith.
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Introducing Mark Elber's prize-winning book, featuring selected poems from the just-released Headstone.
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Transitions, with poems by Ginny Lowe Connors, Larsen Bowker, Pru Starr and Wilderness Sarchild.
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Pandemic reflections from Judith Beth Cohen, Maureen Woodcock, Gloria Kropf, Lynn M. Knapp, Rich Bates, Wendy Watson, Martha Graham-Waldon, Amy Cotler, Mary Alice Dixon, Ellen Reichman, Tricia Knoll, Pia Wood, Susan Milord and Dayana Moreno.
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Honorable mentions from the new issue of Passager, with poems by Joyce Schmid, Julie Pratt and James McGrath.
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Four poems about women, featuring Laurie Barton, Cathleen Cohen, Dianne Woods Ashley and Laura Secord.
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Honoring the ampersand and the bridges between ideas, with poems by Marilyn Wallner, Anne Myles, Patricia Zylius and Sarah Yerkes.
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Sunny and seasonal, with poems by Pat Hale, Dorothy Riehm, John O’Dell and Ed Minus.
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Wedding season, with excerpts of memoirs by Charles Heckman and Gloria O'Neil.
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On this 100th episode of Burning Bright, poems by 100-year-olds Jean Connor, Henry Morgenthau III and Sarah Yerkes.
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Fathers and fatherhood, with poems by Thomas Jardine, Harriet Stratton, Marc Swan and Jeanie Sanders.
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Mid-century childhoods, with pieces by Judy Lee Green, Marianne Patty and Rosanne Singer.
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Three women of WWII, with poems by Diane Dees, E. Laura Golberg and Shirley Brewer.
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Musical imagery, with poems by Steve Matanle, Larnell Custis Butler and Maryhelen Snyder.
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Their companionship, with pieces by Roberta Schine, John Davis and Gary McClain Gannaway.
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Memorable mothers, with pieces by Maureen Hossbacher, Margaret Osburn, Nancy Davidoff Kelton and Chris Carbaugh.
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The season begins, with pieces by Harry Bauld, John Kimmey and Jennifer Wallace.
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Meet Bert and Callum, with pieces by Kathy Shorr and Kirk Wareham.
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More than food, with pieces by Mark Harris and Fran Markover.
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Birth, new beginnings and miracles, with poems by Beth Paulson, Liz Abrams-Morley and Wendy Hoffman.
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Celebrating women, with pieces by Wilderness Sarchild, Gilbert Arzola and Joyce Abell.
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Two years of COVID, with excerpts from Juliet Wilson, Orman Day, Patrick Hansel, Elaine Lambert and Liz Abrams-Morley.
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Its impact, with poems by Patrick Hansel, James McGrath and Kaz Sussman.
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Life and death and curiosity, with poems by Joyce La Mers, Maureen Murphy Woodcock, Pat Hurley and Fran Markover.
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Children and childhood, with pieces by Johanna DeMay, Kristin Davis and Dian Seidel.
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A peek inside the 2022 Open Issue, with excerpts from Rhett Watts, Jayne Brown and Patrick J. Murphy.
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Presidential namesakes, with poems by Rossme Taylor, Tom Buchanan and Leah Johnson.
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Love and romance, with poems by Denise Rue, C. W. Emerson, Marge Piercy, Chuck Madansky and Dorothy Weil.
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The Groundhog, the Mouse and the Crow, with pieces by Laura Wisniewski, Alene Bricken and Jean Connor.
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Well and lesser-known forms, with poems by Lee Warner Brooks, Elinor Horwitz, Norma Chapman and Bonnie Naradzay.
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A tribute episode to the remarkable poet.
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Springtime and other feelings we need right now, with poems by Barbara Stout,James McGrath, Gilbert Arzola and Shirley J. Brewer.
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Celebrating new passions in old age, with poems by the Poetry Salon of Ingleside at Rock Creek.
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Fathers and long-awaited answers, with excerpts from Ox Horn Bend by Roy Cheng Tsung.
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Empathy and experience, with poems about love, war and blindness, from The Solitude of Memory by Michael Miller.
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Ancestors traveling their paths to the future, with excerpts from Grandfather’s Mandolin by Fran Markover.
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The price of dowry and passage, with pieces by Gavin Kayner and Renny Golden.
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Cooking and expectation, with pieces by Maureen Hossbacher, Jim Taylor and Larnell Custis Butler.
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How we experience time, with poems by Steve Matanle, Diana Anhalt, Jennifer Burd and Sarah Yerkes.
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The people that survived, with pieces by James McGrath and Mark G. Carter.
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Apples, birds and wishes, with poems by Jean Connor, Fran Markover, Pat Anthony and Jennifer Wallace.
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Unexpected destinations, with poems by Roger Pfingston, John Hovde, Jesse Arthur Stone and Shirley Brewer.
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Churches and change, with pieces by Amy Gottfried and Sharon Doyle.
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Masks: literal and metaphorical, with pieces by Miriam Karmel, Art Cohen, Ruth Beker and Henry Morgenthau III.
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Highlighting the 2021 Passager Poet Gail DiMaggio with two of her contest-winning "mettas."
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Four poems from the new poetry contest issue, by Marie Fochios, Gail Newman, Colleen Anderson and Jan Mordenski.
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Memories of young passion, with poems by Victoria Korth and Kathy Mangan, and in honor of National Cooking Day – a poem by Ruth Mota.
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Two pieces sort of about music, by Donna Pucciani and Timothy Reilly.
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Football, Grandparents Day and Rosh Hashanah, with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Liliane Roy Anders and Fran Markover.
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Summer break, with poems by Jennifer Wallace and Judith Arcana.
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Two form poems, by Antoinette Kennedy and Lynn Dizard.
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Three pieces about numbers from Wilderness Sarchild, Christine O'Connor and Marie Anderson.
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Detention, indigestion, and other muses with pieces by Leon Arden and Dennis H. Lee.
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Two very different takes on fireworks, with pieces by Jack Ritter and Victoria Wyatt.
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This episode celebrates Juneteenth, with pieces by Mary Carter Smith, Lucille Clifton and Larnell Custis Butler.
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Four pieces about fathers and food, by Ruth Holzer, Greg Moglia, Shirley J. Brewer and Roy Cheng Tsung.
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Ok, not locusts — cicadas! If you’re in much of the eastern part of the United States these days, you’ve probably had the mixed blessing of dodging them, stepping on them, listening to them, and sticking their shells to your nose or eyebrows. Poems by Sophia Rivkin, Mary Azrael and Barbara Crooker.
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A look back to Passager’s beginnings back in 1990, with poems by former US Poet Laureate Josephine Jacobsen and Judson Jerome.
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Views of becoming a soldier, living through war and remembering with pieces by James P. Hanley, Tom Buchanan and Pantea Amin Tofangchi.
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A look at sports and fans, with pieces by Bill Smoot, Gilbert Arzola and Kathy Mangan.
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On this episode, the old country and the new country, with pieces by Diana Anhalt, Zeina Azzam and Judith Krummeck.
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Four poems paying tribute to our mothers, by Wilderness Sarchild, Mary Lou Rife, Diana Morley and Ilene Millman.
The cover art for this episode is from a painting by Tia Cross titled “The Chat.”
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Some tree poems to bridge Earth Day and Arbor Day, from Constance Quarterman Bridges, Michael Fulop and Kendra Kopelke.
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Celebrating Shakespeare's birthday with four pieces about writing, by Sarah Yerkes, Ruth Moose, Elizabeth Kerlikowske and James McGrath.
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Two more pieces from the new Passager Open Issue, from Marc Morgenstern and Anne Sheldon.
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Passager’s annual poetry contest closes April 15. On this episode, poems from past Poetry Contest issues.
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To mark the beginning of baseball season, an excerpt of "Striking Out" by Bea Epstein from the 2013 Passager Open Issue.
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Four pieces celebrating Spring, the season of hope, by Kathy Mangan (Taproot), John L. Wright (2021 Passager Open Issue), Jean L. Connor (A Hinge of Joy) and Helen Vo-Dinh (2007 Passager Open Issue).
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Three poems for Women’s History Month, by MaryAnn Miller and Ellen Schmidt (2018 Passager Poetry Contest) and Mary Stone Hanley (2017 Passager Poetry Contest).
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Some poems inspired by jazz and jazz musicians, from Harry Bauld (The Uncorrected Eye), Steve Matanle (Nightbook) and John Glowney (2020 Passager Poetry Contest).
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Examples of three specific poetic forms, with poems by Philip Allen (2021 Open Issue), Sarah Yerkes (Days of Blue and Flame) and Clarinda Harriss (2018 Open Issue).
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Two pieces from the forthcoming issue of Passager, from Elaine Logan and Michael Salcman.
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An excerpt from Beyond Lowu Bridge by Roy Cheng Tsung to commemorate the Chinese New Year.
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Three poems about love, from Sheila Golburgh Johnson, Virginia Anderson and Ebby Malmgren.
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Three poems about animals that generally stay out of sight during the winter, by Lisa Bellamy, Judith Bernal and Stuart Chalfant.
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Three poems from Passager writers Anita Mewherter (2018 Open Issue), Pilar Saavedra-Vela and Rex Wilder (2020 Poetry Contest Issue).
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Celebrating the life of Dr. Martin Luther King with pieces by Margaret Rozga and Eugenia Collier, from Passager’s special Martin Luther King issue, published in 2008.
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Three poems about food, by Miles Coon (2010 Passager Poetry Contest), Peter Harris (2012 Passager Open Issue) and Shirley J. Brewer (A Little Breast Music).
The cover art is a detail of a painting by Steve Matanle.
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Excerpts of an essay by Virginia writer Joyce Abell, from her memoir Prickly Roses, published by Passager Books in 2017. Meet Abell in a video interview.
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Three poems to celebrate the season, from Steve Matanle (Nightbook), Sarah Yerkes (Days of Blue and Flame), and Jean L. Connor (A Cartography of Peace).
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Excerpts of “An Empty Sky," a short story by Massachusetts writer Sean Padraic McCarthy from the 2020 Open issue of Passager.
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Excerpt of a memoir by Chinese-American writer Roy Cheng Tsung, from his new book Ox Horn Bend, just released from Passager Books.
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Two poems by poets Kathy Mangan (Taproot) and Harry Bauld (The Uncorrected Eye).
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Excerpts from Illinois writer Julie McCracken's memoir “Lord, Please Let Me Live Until Strawberry Season,” published in Passager in 1992.
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Excerpts from Iowa writer Pam Kress-Dunn’s memoir “Love and Fury in a Plastic Box,” from the 2019PassagerOpen Issue.
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Excerpt of an essay by Oaxaca writer Robert Joe Stout called “Laughing at the Moon," published in the 2017 Open Issue of Passager.
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Two poems by New York poet Harry Bauld from his book,The Uncorrected Eye, and Indiana poet Gilbert Arzola, from his book, Prayers of Little Consequence.
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A poem by 2020 Passager Poet Liz Abrams-Morley, from the 2020 Passager Poetry Contest issue.
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Two poems by poets Ruth Mota (2018 Passager Poetry Contest) and Leatha Kendrick (2017 Passager Poetry Contest).
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Three poems from New Jersey poet Dennis H. Lee, 2020 winner of the Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize for his collection, Tidal Wave.
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Two poems from Georgia poet Diana Anhalt, from her book Because There Is No Return, published by Passager Books in 2015.
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Excerpts of a short story by Baltimore writer Stephen Dixon from the 2016 Passager Open Issue.
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Two poems by Cape Cod poet Wilderness Sarchild, from her book Old Women Talking, published by Passager Books in 2017.
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Two poems by D.C. poet Henry Morgenthau III from his book, A Sunday in Purgatory, published by Passager Books in 2016.
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Excerpts of a memoir by Massachusetts writer Lynette Benton from the 2020 Passager Open Issue.
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A poem by Baltimore native Moira Egan, from her book Hot Flash Sonnets, published by Passager Books in 2014.
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Excerpt of a memoir by Chinese-American writer Roy Cheng Tsung, from his book Beyond Lowu Bridge, published by Passager Books in 2014.
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Two poems by Baltimore poets Joseph Harrison (2020 Passager Open Issue) and Fay Ashby (2019 Passager Poetry Contest).
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Excerpt of a memoir by New York writer Nancy Davidoff Kelton, from her book Finding Mr. Rightstein, published by Passager Books in 2016.
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A poem by Baltimore poet Kathy Mangan, from her bookTaproot, published by Passager Books in 2019.
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Two poems by Vermont poet Jean L. Connor, from her book A Cartography of Peace, published by Passager Books in 2005.
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Excerpts from Baltimore writer Andrew Brown, from his book The Chugalug King & Other Stories, published by Passager Books in 2016.
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A poem by Washington, DC poet Sarah Yerkes, from her book Days of Blue and Flame, published by Passager Books in 2019.
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A poem by Indiana writer Gilbert Arzola, from his book Prayers of Little Consequence, published by Passager Books in 2020.
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Excerpt of a memoir by Virginia writer Joyce Abell, from her book Prickly Roses, published by Passager Books in 2017.
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Two poems by Baltimore artist and poet Larnell Custis Butler, from her book Improvise in the Amen Corner, published by Passager Books in 2007.
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Excerpts of an essay from Baltimore poet Tillie Friedenberg, who wrote in 2008 about joining the protest movement in the 60s, published in the Martin Luther King Jr. special release issue of Passager Journal.
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Two poems by Baltimore poet Shirley Brewer, from her book A Little Breast Music, published by Passager Books in 2008. This audio-cast was made possible in part by a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council.
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