All Episodes

70: Adam Morgan, author of A Danger to the Minds of Young Girls: Margaret C. Anderson, Book Bans, and the Fight to Modernize Literature

69: Annah Feinberg, author of the graphic novel Goodbye, Dolly!

68: Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr., author of The El

67: James Shea, author of Last Day of My Face

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5 Outro Episode (with Mathew Kerbis, Lisa Hiton, and Daniel Baer)

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Ocean Vuong

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Mark Doty

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Rose Zinnia

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Nikky Finney

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Oliver Baez Bendorf

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jayson P. Smith

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jessica Jacobs

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Francisco Márquez

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jaz Sufi

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Gabrielle Calvocoressi

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jan-Henry Gray

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Timothy Liu

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Lloyd Schwartz

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Keetje Kuipers

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Gaia Rajan

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Rick Barot

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: S. Brook Corfman

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Faylita Hicks

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5: Jericho Brown

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 5 Trailer

66: Dr. Jo Freer on Thomas Pynchon & Gravity's Rainbow

65: Richard Powers, author of Playground

64: Lois Baer Barr, author of The Tailor's Daughter

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Mary Jo Bang

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Armen Davoudian

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Esther Lin

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Sebastian Merrill

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Matthew Gellman

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Cindy Juyoung Ok

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Yinlin Zhao

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Séamus Isaac Fey

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Fatimah Asghar

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Joshua Garcia

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: p. hodges adams

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Jimin Seo

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Amelia Ada

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Mark Wunderlich

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Angel Nafis

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Gabrielle Bates

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Richard Siken

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Leslie Sainz

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: Eduardo C. Corral

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4: jason b. crawford

Queer Poem-a-Day, Year 4 Trailer

63: Bryan Simpson, Taylor Simpson & Marina Shifrin, Filmmakers

62: Amina Gautier, author of The Best That You Can Do: Stories

61: Dr. Jennifer MacLure on The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian Fiction

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Composer Robert Savage & John Ashbery

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Amanda Gunn

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Megan Fernandes

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Randall Mann

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Jameson Fitzpatrick

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Alicia Mountain

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Chen Chen

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: K. Iver

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Tara Skurtu

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Armen Davoudian

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Rachel Mennies

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Maggie Millner

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Derrick Austin

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: Richie Hofmann

Queer Poem-a-Day Lineage Edition: An Introduction

60: Robert Pinsky, author of Jersey Breaks: Becoming an American Poet

59: Lisa Barr, author of Woman on Fire

58: Merve Emre on Italo Calvino

57: Pianist Seymour Bernstein

56: Deborah Nelson, author of Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, Weil

55: Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué, author of Madness

Queer Poem-a-Day: Gay Epithalamium by Benjamin Garcia

Queer Poem-a-Day: GPOY as Rainbowfrong.gif by Aerik Francis

Queer Poem-a-Day: Polyamory by Madeleine Cravens

Queer Poem-a-Day: Arm'd and Fearless by Julian Gewirtz

Queer Poem-a-Day: The Need for Repetition by Jim Whiteside

Queer Poem-a-Day: from Dependence, the Joistrix / How you are made by Emily Martin

Queer Poem-a-Day: Jacob Riis Memorial Beach by Stephen Ira

Queer Poem-a-Day: Let There Be Pride by Richard Blanco

Queer Poem-a-Day: gxrl gospel iv: beast of a southern wild by Aurielle Marie

Queer Poem-a-Day: Oracle by Ari Banias

Queer Poem-a-Day: Book VI from The Queerness of Eve by Emilia Phillips

Queer Poem-a-Day: 2000 miles and this is the love letter I send you over text by Noa/h Fields

Queer Poem-a-Day: All My Friends are Sad & Bright by Cameron Awkward-Rich

Queer Poem-a-Day: On Growing Bored with Synonyms for the Apocalypse, I Rename It Carl... by C. Russell Price

Queer Poem-a-Day: The Antihero by Megan Fernandes

Queer Poem-a-Day: Humpty Dumpty by Spencer Reece

Queer Poem-a-Day: Salt Lake City by Christian Gullette

Queer Poem-a-Day: Photograph by Jenny George

Queer Poem-a-Day: Soon by Makshya Tolbert

Queer Poem-a-Day: Boombox Ode: Enjoy the Silence by K. Iver

Queer Poem-a-Day: Ode to Sneakers by Tory Adkisson

Queer Poem-a-Day: Argument of Situations by Shangyang Fang

Queer Poem-a-Day: The Morning After by Ellen Bass

Queer Poem-a-Day: Love in the Time of PrEP by Jaques Rancourt

Queer Poem-a-Day: At the New York City AIDS Memorial by Stefania Gomez

Queer Poem-a-Day: To Be Saved by CM Burroughs

Queer Poem-a-Day: The Baby Inside My Baby by Nomi Stone

Queer Poem-a-Day: Obsessions by Gabriel Ojeda-Sagué

Queer Poem-a-Day: Birthday Suits by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza

Queer Poem-a-Day: Self Portrait as a Body, A Sea by Donika Kelly

Queer Poem-a-Day 2022, an introduction

54: beautiful small things, a LYNX Project album with lyrics by neurodiverse young writers

53: Dr. Debbie Reese, author of American Indians in Children's Literature and An Indigenous People's History of the United States for Young People

52: Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers

51: Dr. Paula Derdiger, author of Reconstruction Fiction: Housing and Realist Literature in Postwar Britain

50: Lisa Hiton, author of Afterfeast

Best of: Author Rosellen Brown

49: Rachel Mennies, author of The Naomi Letters

Queer Poem-a-Day: Jenny Johnson "The Lone Palm"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Dan Kraines "Donuts"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Eileen Myles "Love Song"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Lauren Clark "Observation Car"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Kazim Ali "Abu Nuwas"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Julian Guy "High School Sleepovers with Straight Girls"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Carl Phillips "Is It True All Legends Once Were Rumors"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Jameson Fitzpatrick "Duplicity"

Queer Poem-a-Day: D. A. Powell "Puzzle Pieces"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Amanda Gunn "Things I Didn't Do With this Body and Things I Did"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Michael M. Weinstein "An Act"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Randall Mann "Eros"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Jill McDonough "What a Waste"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Xandria Phillips "Want Could Kill Me"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Jay Besemer "The Window"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Catherine Pond "Riding the Bus Back to Oxford"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Cyril Wong "The Men We Loved"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Phillip B. Williams "Of Contour, of Cadence"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Julia Guez "Forty"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Rachel Mennies "[unsent draft]"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Richie Hofmann "Male Beauty"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Henri Cole "Embers"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Chen Chen "Summer"

Queer Poem-a-Day: H. Melt "Prayer for My Trans Siblings"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Ruben Quesada "Billow of Thistles"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Andrea Cohen "Eavesdropping on Adam and Eve"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Gala Mukomolova "Ana I Don't Forget"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Sam Herschel Wein "Nature Poem"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Derrick Austin "Is This or Is This True as Happiness"

Queer Poem-a-Day: Shelley Wong "Pride Month"

Queer Poem-a-Day, an introduction with Lisa Hiton & Dylan Zavagno

48: Dr. Jason Oliver Chang on "Unmasking Yellow Peril"

47: Jasmon Drain, author of Stateway's Garden: Stories

46: Patrick T. Reardon, author of The Loop: The "L" Tracks that Shaped and Saved Chicago

45: Dan Chiasson, author of The Math Campers: Poems

44: Dr. Kishonna Gray, author of Intersectional Tech

43: Cool Careers! Family episode with Ashley Wolff, Peter L., & Dr. Liz Rampe

42: Erik Gellman, author of Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay

41: Jordan Melic, author of A Tree to Take Us Up to Heaven

40: "How can white people accelerate racial justice?" with Christine Saxman

39: Sarah MacLean and Jen Prokop of Fated Mates

38: Bulls in Deerfield; K.C. Johnson on The Last Dance and more

37: 1918 Pandemic in Illinois with Graham Ambrose

36: Author Rosellen Brown, Part 2

35: Author Rosellen Brown, Part 1

34: Sam Herschel Wein, poet

33: Nina Barrett, author of The Leopold and Loeb Files

32: Legalized Cannabis with Rep. Bob Morgan

31: Marina Shifrin, author of 30 Before 30: How I Made a Mess of My 20s and You Can Too

30: Howard Reich, author of The Art of Inventing Hope: Intimate Conversations with Elie Wiesel

29: Derrick Procell, blues musician

28: Chris Claremont, legendary X-Men writer!

27: Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law

26: Congressman Brad Schneider

25: Molly Page & Masala Sapphire, recent Library program presenters!

24: Ken Krimstein, cartoonist-author of The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt

23: Graham Ambrose, writer & the Fight to Integrate Deerfield

22: William Hazelgrove, author of Madam President & Wright Brothers, Wrong Story

21: The Center for Enriched Living with Harriet Levy, Executive Director

20: Lake County Forest Preserves with Nan Buckardt, Dir. of Education

19: Sonali Dev, author of A Distant Heart

18: Local poets: Herb Berman, MJ Gabrielsen, & Jacqueline Nicole Harris

17: Colt Cabana, wrestler, with Erica Weisz, author & illustrator

16: Kyla Guru of Bits N' Bytes Cybersecurity Education

15: Martin Clancy; the opioid crisis from a local expert

14: J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader film critic

13: Jeffrey Brown, cartoonist & author

12: Art Shay, photographer & writer

End-of-year break!

11: Elizabeth Rynecki, author of Chasing Portraits

10: Natalie Kirsch & Peter Fitzgerald, Deerfield Rotary Co- Presidents

9: Dr. Mike Lubelfeld, Superintendent, Deerfield District 109

Deerfield Public Art Audio Tour

8: Mary Block, sculptor & Lars-Birger Sponberg, painter

7: Charlie Meyerson, proprietor of ChicagoPublicSquare.com & longtime Chicago-area "bringer of news"

6: Gale Gand, James Beard Award-winning pastry chef, Food Network star, cookbook author, and more!

5: Mary Kubica, author of The Good Girl, Pretty Baby, & Don't You Cry

4: Julie Morrison, Illinois State Senator, 29th District

3: Deputy Chief Ray Larson of the Deerfield Bannockburn Fire District

2: Vicki Street, Executive Director of the Deerfield Bannockburn Riverwoods Chamber of Commerce

1: Mayor Harriet Rosenthal

Veteran's Day Audio Tour of the Deerfield Illinois Cemetery

Deerfield Illinois Cemetery Audio Tour