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Burning Bright — 280 episodes

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1

Faulkner's South

2

Vesuvius and Catastrophe

3

Passager Editor Rosanne Singer

4

National Zoo Keeper Week

5

Frida Kahlo’s Death

6

New Technologies

7

Semiquincentennial

8

Mel Brooks

9

Paul McCartney

10

Teachers

11

Hope

12

Jewish-American Heritage Month

13

The Church

14

Picks by Passager Interns

15

Morgenthau Prize Winner

16

Vietnam War

17

Earth Day

18

Play Ball!

19

Siblings

20

Organ Recital

21

Issue 80

22

Sylvia Beach

23

Peace Corps & Volunteering

24

John Keats

25

Space

26

Periodic Table

27

Black History Month

28

The Holocaust

29

Ben Franklin and Philadelphia

30

It’s Cold!

31

New Year's Hope

32

Christmas 2025

33

The 2025 Passager Poet

34

Morgenthau Prize

35

The Evils of Drink

36

The Bill of Rights

37

World Kindness Day

38

Women in Medicine

39

College

40

Words for Webster

41

Indigenous Peoples' Day

42

World Teachers’ Day

43

October is for Oceans

44

National Cooking Day

45

A Peek Inside the New Issue

46

National Grandparents’ Day

47

An Interview with Susan Baur

48

Nature

49

International Kissing Day

50

Outgoing Interview with Editor Kendra Kopelke

51

Summertime

52

Father’s Day

53

The Pandemic Diaries

54

Walt Whitman

55

Water: An Ode

56

Florence Nightingale and Nursing

57

Freud & the Mental Health Trades

58

Audubon & Birds

59

David Bergman: Interview

60

Spring Holidays

61

Fountain of Youth

62

Marriage

63

Arianna's Picks

64

Spring!

65

Fran Markover: Interview

66

Peace Corps

67

Longfellow

68

Eva's Picks

69

Valentine's Day

70

Charles Dickens

71

Winifred Hughes: Interview

72

Editors’ Picks

73

Roget’s Thesaurus

74

Birthday Reflections

75

Trees

76

Dogs

77

The Village of New Ghosts

78

Gratitude

79

Exploding Whale Day

80

Veterans Day

81

“I learned to nourish myself”

82

The Immigrant Experience

83

Chopin, Music and Dance

84

Autumn

85

The Great Chicago Fire

86

Meet the 2024 Passager Poet

87

The 2024 Poetry Contest

88

Law & Writing

89

The Empowered Reader

90

Cape Cod

91

Moon Walk

92

Rosetta Stone

93

Kissing

94

Joke Day

95

Gay Pride

96

Father's Day

97

Anne Frank & The Triple Crown

98

Cats

99

Daughters & Granddaughters

100

Memorial Day

101

The Ordinary

102

Language Quirks

103

The Athlete

104

Shakespeare’s Birthday!

105

Art

106

Key Bridge

107

Palindromes

108

Peek Inside the New Issue

109

Green!

110

Bell and the Telephone

111

Age Gap

112

Music Therapy

113

Remember the Alamo

114

Valentine’s Day

115

Lincoln's Birthday

116

Poe and His Bird

117

Holocaust Remembrance Day

118

Adventure and Hope

119

On Hold

120

Mary Azrael Turns 80!

121

Look! Up in the Sky!

122

Letters

123

The 2024 Morgenthau Prize

124

Thanksgiving

125

A More Positive Spin

126

Veterans Day

127

Climate Change

128

Israel-Gaza

129

Appalachian Trail

130

Indigenous Peoples’ Day

131

Burning Bright's 150th Episode!

132

2023 Poetry Contest Issue

133

A Time to Reflect

134

Pets

135

Back to School

136

Auld Lang Syne

137

Vive la Marilyns!

138

Bastille Day

139

July 4

140

Allusions to Shakespeare

141

Kindergarten at 60

142

Bloomsday

143

Cars

144

Updating Religion

145

Memorial Day

146

Mothernest

147

Mothers

148

May Days

149

May Day

150

Music

151

Words

152

Birth & Rebirth

153

Marching into April

154

The Trauma Issue

155

BB-126 The Ides of March

156

Writing

157

Bridges

158

Poetic Forms

159

Valentine's Day

160

Poems in Protest

161

Petes!

162

The Morgenthau Prize

163

Two Reptiles and a Mammal

164

Another Year Older

165

Holiday Light

166

The Night Sky

167

Sagittarius

168

Eating!

169

Veterans Day

170

More from the New Issue

171

Stress

172

Headstone by Mark Elber

173

Autumn

174

2022 Passager Poet David Bergman

175

The Diaries

176

The 2022 Contest Issue

177

Women

178

National Ampersand Day

179

Summer

180

Weddings

181

The Centenarians

182

Fathers

183

Living on the Cusp

184

The 1950s and 60s

185

Memorial Day

186

Music

187

Pets

188

Mother's Day

189

Baseball

190

Coupla Old Men

191

Eggs

192

Spring Miracles

193

Women's History Month

194

Pandemic Retrospective

195

War

196

Near Death Experience

197

Kids

198

The New Issue!

199

Presidents' Day

200

Valentine's Day

201

Winter Animals

202

Three Sonnets and a Pantoum

203

In Memory of Jean Connor

204

Hope

205

The Ingleside Poets

206

Ox Horn Bend

207

The Solitude of Memory

208

Grandfather's Mandolin

209

Payments

210

Thanksgiving

211

Time

212

Veterans Day

213

Things in Trees

214

Driving

215

Churches

216

Masks

217

2021 Passager Poet

218

2021 Contest Issue

219

Autumn

220

Music

221

September

222

Puttin' It All on Hold

223

Poems or Girdles?

224

You Can Count On It

225

Classical Surprises

226

4th of July

227

Juneteenth

228

Father's Day

229

The 17-Year Locusts

230

First Anniversary

231

Memorial Day

232

Guys and Sports

233

Immigrants: What We Carry With Us

234

Mother's Day

235

Trees

236

Shakespeare's Birthday

237

More from the New Issue!

238

Poetry Contest

239

Baseball

240

Hope

241

Women's History Month

242

Jazz

243

Poetic Forms

244

A Peek at the New Issue

245

Chinese New Year

246

Valentine's Day

247

Groundhog Day

248

Covid

249

MLK

250

The Quarantine 15

251

New Orleans Bound

252

It Pleases Me No End

253

Christmas

254

Trying to Come Home

255

Hunger & Faith

256

Thanksgiving

257

Battered Wife

258

Lizzie the Coyote

259

Back to School

260

Growing Up in Traumatic Times

261

Food

262

Before you write from the heart

263

Remembering Life in Mexico

264

An Interpretation of Dreams

265

The Approximate Weight of My Responsibility

266

The Last Act

267

Holding On

268

Insomnia

269

Persecution

270

Lyric Compression

271

Eye Openers

272

The Redeemed

273

After Vacationing in Maine

274

The Chugalug King Goes Down the Road

275

Pygmalion and Galatea

276

In the Fields

277

How I Got to College

278

Pie Maker Ellen Emily Matthew

279

To My Fellow Poets

280

Give Me Liberace or Give Me Death