Poetry Moment
384 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsPresented by Spokane Public Radio, Poetry Moment is a program that showcases myriad poems as read by poets and poetry lovers from across the Inland Northwest — and occasionally beyond.Poetry Moment airs one poem on KPBX each weekday at 9am; a single reader curates the entire week’s worth of poetry. Sometimes the poems are the reader's own, and sometimes they're written by poets whose work they admire and want to share with listeners.Since its start in 2018, Poetry Moment has featured readers ranging from the Washington State Poet Laureate and popular local slam poets to listeners who simply want to give voice to a few of their favorite pieces.Are you interested in reading for Poetry Moment too? If so, e-mail us at [email protected].
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Episodes
Bob Sterry reads "One America" by Emmet Wheatfall
July 04, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 2.92 MBBob Sterry reads a poem by Emmet Wheatfall
Bob Sterry reads "The Broken Heart" by John Donne
July 03, 2024 13:10 - 2 minutes - 4.07 MBBob Sterry reads a poem by John Donne
Bob Sterry reads his original poem "Horizons are Deceptive"
July 02, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 2.63 MBBob Sterry reads an original poem
Bob Sterry reads his original poem "The moon is Leaving"
July 01, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 3.45 MBBob Sterry reads an original poem
Sherri Levine reads her original poem "Grammar Lessons"
June 26, 2024 17:55 - 1 minute - 2.56 MBSherri Levine reads an original poem
Sherri Levine reads "A life's work" by Debra Elisa
June 26, 2024 17:49 - 54 seconds - 1.66 MBSherri Levine reads a poem by Debra Elisa
Sherri Levine reads "Spirit Rise" by Debra Elisa
June 26, 2024 17:41 - 1 minute - 2.52 MBSherri Levine reads a poem by Debra Elisa
Sherri Levine reads her original poem "When I Wouldn't Eat My Disgusting Liver"
June 26, 2024 17:34 - 1 minute - 2.76 MBSherri Levine reads an original poem
Sherri Levine reads her original poem "Stealing Flowers From the Neighbors"
June 26, 2024 17:29 - 1 minute - 2.55 MBSherri Levine reads an original poem
Stephany Vogel reads her original poem "Verbal"
June 21, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 1.04 MBStephany Vogel reads an original poem
Stephany Vogel reads her original poem "Blackbird"
June 20, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 1010 KBStephany Vogel reads an original poem
Stephany Vogel reads "Because I Could Not Stop For Death" by Emily Dickinson
June 19, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 1.34 MBStephany Vogel reads a poem by Emily Dickinson
Stephany Vogel reads "Loam" by Tod Marshall
June 18, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 1.19 MBStephany Vogel reads a poem by Tod Marshall
Stephany Vogel reads "Free Spinning" by Andrea Wiser
June 17, 2024 13:10 - 2 minutes - 2.26 MBStephany Vogel reads a poem by Andrea Wiser
Sam Ligon reads "Buffalo Dusk" by Carl Sandburg and "Buffalo Bill's" by E.E. Cummings
June 14, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 1.12 MBSam Ligon reads poems by Carl Sandburg and E.E. Cummings
Sam Ligon reads "An Etiquette for Eyes" by Cate Marvin
June 13, 2024 13:10 - 2 minutes - 2.73 MBSam Ligon reads a poem by Cate Marvin
Sam Ligon reads "Gretel Introduces Herself" by Liz Kay
June 12, 2024 13:10 - 55 seconds - 860 KBSam Ligon reads a poem by Liz Kay
Sam Ligon reads "Longest Sneezing Fit, Day 977" by Stephanie Lenox
June 10, 2024 13:00 - 1 minute - 1.38 MBSam Ligon reads a poem by Stephanie Lenox
Traci Neal reads "Invitation to Love" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
June 07, 2024 13:10 - 1 minute - 3.38 MBTraci Neal reads a poem by Paul Lawrence Dunbar
Sam Ligon reads "Full Moon" by Kim Addonizio
June 06, 2024 17:06 - 1 minute - 1.18 MBSam Ligon reads a poem by Kim Addonizio
Christine McDonald reads her original poem "Where All That Is Wild Has a Home"
April 22, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.8 MBA poem about reassessing what has value when faced with the prospect of extinction
Mare Heron Hake reads her original poem "Upstream and Always"
April 19, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.16 MBLikening coming-of-age tribulations to the path of the salmon
Mare Heron Hake reads "Litany Ending with a Taste of Nectar" by Allen Braden
April 18, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.51 MB"In the spirit abandoning the body, / wherever there is sorrow, lives what saves us."
Mare Heron Hake reads her original poem "Mud Puddle Observance"
April 17, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.79 MBDrawing attention to a vital but unassuming part of a natural cycle
Mare Heron Hake reads "Poem for Ugly People" by Abby E. Murray
April 16, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.24 MBWithout the imperfect, what value does the perfect hold?
Mare Heron Hake reads her original poem "Watering"
April 15, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.48 MBOut of the strong shall come forth sweetness
Laurie Klein reads "What Fire Comes to Sing in You" by Jan Richardson
April 12, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 1.95 MBThe "sonic capstone" to a series of readings on the theme of 'becoming sound'
Laurie Klein reads "Getting to Gardisky Lake" by Paul J. Willis
April 11, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.18 MBOn savoring nature as a way of remaining open to possibility
Laurie Klein reads her original poem "Bookseller"
April 10, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.37 MBThe serendipitous experience of a rainy-day stranger introducing you to a good book
Laurie Klein reads "To Save a Robin: A Husband Poem" by Susan Cowger
April 09, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.75 MBA poem about salvation, care and "rescuing life that flails at the softest touch"
Laurie Klein reads her original poem "Dark-thirty and Beyond: Bird's-eye View"
April 08, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.29 MBThe first reading in this week's series on 'becoming sound'
Joy Sullivan reads her original poem "Mercy"
April 05, 2024 16:02 - 52 seconds - 835 KBDiverging perspectives on an act of compassion
Joy Sullivan reads "Coyote" by Danusha Laméris
April 04, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.35 MBOn hearing the call of the wild and wanting to "make [your] own terrible noise"
Joy Sullivan reads her original poem "Instructions for Traveling West"
April 03, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.47 MBThe title poem of a new collection and the inspiration for a life change
Joy Sullivan reads "You and Me and the New Country" by Anis Mojgani
April 02, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.35 MBLandscapes and landmarks become the topography of a relationship
Joy Sullivan reads her original poem "Cost"
April 01, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.49 MBReconsidering the notion of 'beasts of burden'
Sarah Kersey reads "Indiana" by Kerry Rutherford
March 29, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 2.56 MBAmid cornfields and under vast heavens, the poet finds "grace towards impermanence"
Jodi Miller-Hunter reads "Fall" by Kerry Rutherford
March 28, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.76 MBA work that showcases the more 'literary' side of the late poet
Jonathan Johnson reads "Tropos" by Kerry Rutherford
March 27, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.93 MBA reading that the captures poet's "embrace of mortality in the human journey"
Leah Dawdy reads "Strictly Ornamental" by Kerry Rutherford
March 26, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 2.3 MBA life's trajectory into adolescence encapsulated in a series of brief vignettes
Heather Tillery reads "Kodiak Island" by Kerry Rutherford
March 25, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.99 MBThe week's first reading in memory of a poet who lived with "wonder and joy and love"
Cara Lorello reads her original poem "Home, Then and Now"
March 22, 2024 16:02 - 3 minutes - 2.78 MBSpaces separated by time and distance but united by their role in a life story
Cara Lorello reads "Heavy Summer Rain" by Jane Kenyon
March 21, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.23 MBInto every life a little rain must fall, and it leaves its mark
Cara Lorello reads her original poem "Silent Spring"
March 20, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.09 MBSearching for signs of life in the midst of COVID-era stillness
Cara Lorello reads "The Clearing" by Jane Kenyon
March 19, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.3 MBAnticipating the return of a season's lush bloom. Or maybe the return of something else?
Cara Lorello reads her original poem "Las Vegas Wedding in the Valley of Fire"
March 18, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.83 MBHuman lives and milestones set amid the scale of geological time
Christine Holbert reads “In a Country Where Everyone’s Name Is Fear” by Lyudmyla Khersonsky and “Apple” by Boris Khersonsky
March 15, 2024 16:02 - 3 minutes - 3.05 MBTwo poems, the first translated by Grace Mahoney, the second by Diane Seuss with Oksana Maksymchuk
Christine Holbert reads an untitled poem by Ostap Slyvynsky
March 14, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 1.46 MBFrom Slyvynsky's book The Winter King, translated by Vitaly Chernetsky and Iryna Shuvalova
Christine Holbert reads "Currents" by Letisia Cruz
March 13, 2024 16:02 - 1 minute - 985 KBA lesson in elemental forces
Christine Holbert reads "Roses in the Eyes, Oblivious to the Thorns" by Anna Leigh Knowles
March 12, 2024 16:02 - 2 minutes - 2.3 MBA family photo, a static moment in time that still whispers to the poet