Recitation of the mystical English poem, "I Saw the Sun at Midnight, Rising Red", 1917 by Joesph Mary Plunkett and music by the Psalters. (more)

An audio prose poem, mixing chocolate with desire. (more)

This is an excerpt from Curtis Fox's portrait of Walt Whitman, one of the world's greatest poets, and his radical vision of America. (more)

An exercise in time condensation, or more simply time travel, in which the cave wall serves as interface between past and present, human and animal, Philip Smith, librarian, reads excerpts from two books about Upper Paleolithic cave art. (more)

While the Internet is teeming with storytelling portals - including the one you're on right now - some rise above the rest: in quality, spirit, and ambition. (more)

This hour: readers, writers, literary performance artists, and the grammar police. (more)

Homer's Odyssey re-imagined through my neighbors' experiences on the wine-dark sea. (more)

"A new start for the start." (more)

A meditation on big changes, building walls, and breaking them down again. (more)

This hour: a retired child beauty queen recalls her youth and a young man revels in eating trash. (more)

Writer Sam Swope visits a class of restless, imaginative 11-year-olds in Queens, New York, where he embraces the challenge of teaching them Wallace Stevens' poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird." (more)

This hour: three documentary poems chronicling the lives of working class mothers in Troy, NY. Plus, poets as reporters, confused readers, and more. (more)

This hour: the difficult, brief, and brilliant life of writer Raymond Carver. (more)

San Francisco luminary and famed poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti takes listeners on a freewheeling tour of his neighborhood haunts in San Francisco's Chinatown and North Beach. (more)

Reflections on food for thought. (more)

Music incorporating a performance of William Safford's poem "A Story That Could Be True" with Book Odds samples. (more)

The Organist is a monthly experimental arts & culture program produced by the editors of the Believer - the award-winning monthly magazine published by McSweeney's. (more)

The strange journey of Walt Whitman's brain, both inside his head, and out. (more)

In the 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and the state of Israel, one man took it upon himself to "resist with his pen," to bear witness for his people and bring the world, in his words, "the real news from Beirut.” (more)