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Burning Bright — 267 episodes

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Picks by Passager Interns

2

Morgenthau Prize Winner

3

Vietnam War

4

Earth Day

5

Play Ball!

6

Siblings

7

Organ Recital

8

Issue 80

9

Sylvia Beach

10

Peace Corps & Volunteering

11

John Keats

12

Space

13

Periodic Table

14

Black History Month

15

The Holocaust

16

Ben Franklin and Philadelphia

17

It’s Cold!

18

New Year's Hope

19

Christmas 2025

20

The 2025 Passager Poet

21

Morgenthau Prize

22

The Evils of Drink

23

The Bill of Rights

24

World Kindness Day

25

Women in Medicine

26

College

27

Words for Webster

28

Indigenous Peoples' Day

29

World Teachers’ Day

30

October is for Oceans

31

National Cooking Day

32

A Peek Inside the New Issue

33

National Grandparents’ Day

34

An Interview with Susan Baur

35

Nature

36

International Kissing Day

37

Outgoing Interview with Editor Kendra Kopelke

38

Summertime

39

Father’s Day

40

The Pandemic Diaries

41

Walt Whitman

42

Water: An Ode

43

Florence Nightingale and Nursing

44

Freud & the Mental Health Trades

45

Audubon & Birds

46

David Bergman: Interview

47

Spring Holidays

48

Fountain of Youth

49

Marriage

50

Arianna's Picks

51

Spring!

52

Fran Markover: Interview

53

Peace Corps

54

Longfellow

55

Eva's Picks

56

Valentine's Day

57

Charles Dickens

58

Winifred Hughes: Interview

59

Editors’ Picks

60

Roget’s Thesaurus

61

Birthday Reflections

62

Trees

63

Dogs

64

The Village of New Ghosts

65

Gratitude

66

Exploding Whale Day

67

Veterans Day

68

“I learned to nourish myself”

69

The Immigrant Experience

70

Chopin, Music and Dance

71

Autumn

72

The Great Chicago Fire

73

Meet the 2024 Passager Poet

74

The 2024 Poetry Contest

75

Law & Writing

76

The Empowered Reader

77

Cape Cod

78

Moon Walk

79

Rosetta Stone

80

Kissing

81

Joke Day

82

Gay Pride

83

Father's Day

84

Anne Frank & The Triple Crown

85

Cats

86

Daughters & Granddaughters

87

Memorial Day

88

The Ordinary

89

Language Quirks

90

The Athlete

91

Shakespeare’s Birthday!

92

Art

93

Key Bridge

94

Palindromes

95

Peek Inside the New Issue

96

Green!

97

Bell and the Telephone

98

Age Gap

99

Music Therapy

100

Remember the Alamo

101

Valentine’s Day

102

Lincoln's Birthday

103

Poe and His Bird

104

Holocaust Remembrance Day

105

Adventure and Hope

106

On Hold

107

Mary Azrael Turns 80!

108

Look! Up in the Sky!

109

Letters

110

The 2024 Morgenthau Prize

111

Thanksgiving

112

A More Positive Spin

113

Veterans Day

114

Climate Change

115

Israel-Gaza

116

Appalachian Trail

117

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

118

Burning Bright's 150th Episode!

119

2023 Poetry Contest Issue

120

A Time to Reflect

121

Pets

122

Back to School

123

Auld Lang Syne

124

Vive la Marilyns!

125

Bastille Day

126

July 4

127

Allusions to Shakespeare

128

Kindergarten at 60

129

Bloomsday

130

Cars

131

Updating Religion

132

Memorial Day

133

Mothernest

134

Mothers

135

May Days

136

May Day

137

Music

138

Words

139

Birth & Rebirth

140

Marching into April

141

The Trauma Issue

142

BB-126 The Ides of March

143

Writing

144

Bridges

145

Poetic Forms

146

Valentine's Day

147

Poems in Protest

148

Petes!

149

The Morgenthau Prize

150

Two Reptiles and a Mammal

151

Another Year Older

152

Holiday Light

153

The Night Sky

154

Sagittarius

155

Eating!

156

Veterans Day

157

More from the New Issue

158

Stress

159

Headstone by Mark Elber

160

Autumn

161

2022 Passager Poet David Bergman

162

The Diaries

163

The 2022 Contest Issue

164

Women

165

National Ampersand Day

166

Summer

167

Weddings

168

The Centenarians

169

Fathers

170

Living on the Cusp

171

The 1950s and 60s

172

Memorial Day

173

Music

174

Pets

175

Mother's Day

176

Baseball

177

Coupla Old Men

178

Eggs

179

Spring Miracles

180

Women's History Month

181

Pandemic Retrospective

182

War

183

Near Death Experience

184

Kids

185

The New Issue!

186

Presidents' Day

187

Valentine's Day

188

Winter Animals

189

Three Sonnets and a Pantoum

190

In Memory of Jean Connor

191

Hope

192

The Ingleside Poets

193

Ox Horn Bend

194

The Solitude of Memory

195

Grandfather's Mandolin

196

Payments

197

Thanksgiving

198

Time

199

Veterans Day

200

Things in Trees

201

Driving

202

Churches

203

Masks

204

2021 Passager Poet

205

2021 Contest Issue

206

Autumn

207

Music

208

September

209

Puttin' It All on Hold

210

Poems or Girdles?

211

You Can Count On It

212

Classical Surprises

213

4th of July

214

Juneteenth

215

Father's Day

216

The 17-Year Locusts

217

First Anniversary

218

Memorial Day

219

Guys and Sports

220

Immigrants: What We Carry With Us

221

Mother's Day

222

Trees

223

Shakespeare's Birthday

224

More from the New Issue!

225

Poetry Contest

226

Baseball

227

Hope

228

Women's History Month

229

Jazz

230

Poetic Forms

231

A Peek at the New Issue

232

Chinese New Year

233

Valentine's Day

234

Groundhog Day

235

Covid

236

MLK

237

The Quarantine 15

238

New Orleans Bound

239

It Pleases Me No End

240

Christmas

241

Trying to Come Home

242

Hunger & Faith

243

Thanksgiving

244

Battered Wife

245

Lizzie the Coyote

246

Back to School

247

Growing Up in Traumatic Times

248

Food

249

Before you write from the heart

250

Remembering Life in Mexico

251

An Interpretation of Dreams

252

The Approximate Weight of My Responsibility

253

The Last Act

254

Holding On

255

Insomnia

256

Persecution

257

Lyric Compression

258

Eye Openers

259

The Redeemed

260

After Vacationing in Maine

261

The Chugalug King Goes Down the Road

262

Pygmalion and Galatea

263

In the Fields

264

How I Got to College

265

Pie Maker Ellen Emily Matthew

266

To My Fellow Poets

267

Give Me Liberace or Give Me Death