Burning Bright

Celebrating our spring semester interns with poems by Gilbert Arzola, Fran Markover, Ruth Goring, and Wilderness Sarchild. Support the show

A three-poem preview of Proof of Life by Kathy O’Fallon, winner of the 2026 Henry Morgenthau III First Book Poetry Prize.Support the show

Commemorating the anniversary of the capture of Saigon, with excerpts from Jeffrey Minch, Michael Miller, and Gary Lark. Support the show

Poems that take place outside, from Maura High, Beverly Osband, Sam Schmidt, and Jean Connor.Support the show

Celebrating the start of baseball season with work from Bea Epstein, Barry Nemett, John Kimmey, and Jennifer Wallace.Support the show

Celebrating National Siblings Day with pieces from Perie Longo, Helen Vo-Dinh, and Gail DiMaggio.Support the show

Pieces on aging body parts by Harry Bauld, Michael Brodin, and Katherine Briccetti. Support the show

A sneak peek into the new issue with Richard Jacobs, Hania Qutub, Mary Alice Dixon, and Robbie Gamble.Support the show

An appreciation of literature and writers with poems by Mark Brooks, Judy Ireland, Florence Weinberger, and Bonnie Naradzay. Support the show

Writing on the desire to be of service, from Judith Chalmer, Diana Woodcock, and Andrew Brown. Support the show

Commemorating John Keats with odes by John Philip Drury, Myra Shapiro, and Mark Elber. Support the show

To the moon and beyond with poets Colleen Gibbons, Mark MacAllister, and Ruth Mota.Support the show

Elemental tangents, with poems by Jim Nawrocki, Kay Cash-Smith, and Susan Haroutunian Cunningham.Support the show

Poems and excerpts on learning about Black history, by Kevin Nance, Elizabeth Esris, Kathleen O’Toole, and Melvin Douglas Williams.Support the show

Recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day with pieces from Rachel Heimowitz, Claire Kahane, Fran Markover, and Rosanne Singer. Support the show

Poems from Philadelphian writers Joy Gorson, Beth Brown Preston, and Bill Buskirk.Support the show

Celebrating Robert Service’s Birthday, with poems by Rebecca Leet, John J. Hohn, and Pamela Wynn.Support the show

Poems about small hopes, from Kathleen Hellen, Becky Sakellariou, Paula Sergi, and Martin Steyer.Support the show

Pieces about Christmas and New Year's, from Nancy Smith Harris, Patric Pepper, and Liz Abrams-Morley. Support the show

Four sonnets from 2025 Poetry Contest winner Angie Minkin.Support the show

Poems from Henry Morgenthau III and past Morgenthau Prize winners Dennis Lee, Mark Elber, and Winifred Hughes.Support the show

 Featuring excerpts and poems about drunkenness from Andrew Brown, Terri Steel, and Rick Rohdenburg. Support the show

The right of peaceful assembly, with excerpts and poems from Esther Cantu, Judy Callarman, and Tillie Friedenberg.Support the show

 Recognizing the kindness of others, with poems from David Bergman, Henry Morgenthau III, and Rhett Watts. Support the show

Featuring pieces from Dr. Denisha Naidoo, Dr. Beverly Greenspan, and Dr. Michelle Morouse. Support the show

Writing about College from Joyce Abell, Terry Miller, and Winifred Hughes.Support the show

Celebrating Noah Webster with poems about words from Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Sherri Stepakoff, Sarah Yerkes, and Hal Grinberg.Support the show

Poems about Indian Schools from Red Hawk and Joel Savishinsky, and a painting from Alma Roberts.Support the show

 Tributes to teachers from Roy Cheng Tsung and Maureen Murphy Woodcock. Support the show

Recognizing October is for Oceans month, with pieces from Passager’s Pandemic Diaries series from Mark Tochen, Johan Fremling, Isabel Learza, and Suzanne Iuppa.Support the show

Poems about food from Wendy Hoffman, Christine Higgins, and Fran Markover. Support the show

Selections from the forthcoming 2025 Poetry Contest issue, featuring poems by Philip Stern, Buffy Shutt, Susan Miller, and Byron Hoot. Support the show

Honoring the memory of Marian McQuade, with poems and a letter by Richard Levine, Alice Duggan, and Sue Marcus. Support the show

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."Support the show

Observing the beauty of nature, featuring four poems by Catherine Young, Deborah Casillas, Robert Tremmel and J. I. Kleinberg.Support the show

Celebrating International Kissing Day with romantic poems by John Davis, Clarinda Harriss and Terry S. Johnson.Support the show

A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an outgoing interview with founding editor Kendra Kopelke.Support the show

Welcoming summer's arrival, featuring poems by Mary Jo Balestreri, Margaret Hoehn, Kirby Olson and Sarah Yerkes.Support the show

Commemorating family history, featuring work by Dan Shiffman, Roberta Schine and Nicholas Samaras, plus excerpts from an interview with Roy Cheng Tsung.Support the show

Anxiety and writing, featuring diary entries by Judith Beth Cohen, Kurt Schmidt and Cindy Cramer.Support the show

Celebrating the American poet with long-lined poems by Matt Hohner, Lisa Couturier and Mark Elber.Support the show

Harbor and danger, featuring four poems about water by Winifred Hughes, Sandy Longley, B. Morrison and Colin McKim.Support the show

Three poet-nurses, featuring work by Marilee Pritchard, Laura Secord and Mary Hennessy.Support the show

Turtles, poems and other coping mechanisms, featuring work by Susan Baur and Kelly DuMar.Support the show

Birds and guidance, featuring work by Anne Frydman, Gordon Grilz and Sandy Longley.Support the show

A special episode of Burning Bright, featuring an interview with David Bergman, author of Plain Sight.Support the show

Questions for God, featuring poems by James Littwin, Anastasia Vassos, Maryhelen Snyder and Wilderness Sarchild.Support the show

Three poems on aging, featuring centenarians Henry Morgenthau III, Sarah Yerkes and Jean Connor.Support the show

Routines or rites? Featuring poems by Kathy Mangan, David J. S. Pickering and Ann McGovern.Support the show

The pieces that impacted Passager intern Arianna D'Italia, featuring work by Maureen Murphy Woodcock and Nancy Jean Hill.Support the show