Audio Saucepan on KSFR

6/16/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Manly Episode” includes the poems “Classified” by Elizabeth Willis (from Address, Wesleyan University Press); “Prize Fighter” by Adrian Matejka (from The Big Smoke, Penguin Poets); and “If” by Rudyard Kipling (read by Michael Caine, from Classic Poems for Boys, Naxos AudioBooks)

6/9/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Night the Earth Turned Orange Episode” includes the poems “Juliett” by Jen Benka (from Pinko, Hanging Loose Press); “In the Wind” by Lee Sharkey (from Calendars of Fire, Tupelo Press); and “The Bridge” by C. Dale Young (from Torn, Four Way Books)

6/2/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Episode in the Meadow” includes the poems “Spring” by Virgil with translation by David Ferry (from Bewilderment, University of Chicago Press); “Atlas Peak” by Brian Teare (from Companion Grasses, Omnidawn), and “Exercise” by W.S. Merwin (from Migration, Copper Canyon Press)

5/12/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Knowing Episode” includes an excerpt of an interview with Charles Mingus about drummer Dannie Richmond (from Mingus Speaks, University of California Press); and the poems “On the Sublime” by Lisa Jarnot (from Joie de Vivre, City Lights Books) and “A Few Things” by Daniel Simpson (from Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, Cinco Puntos Press)

5/5/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Hardy Perennial Episode” includes the poems “Wait” by Galway Kinnell (from Breaking the Jaws of Silence, University of Arkansas Press); “Happiness” by Paisley Rekdal (from Animal Eye, University of Pittsburgh Press); and “Weeds” by Jacek Gutorow (from The Folding Star and Other Poems, BOA Editions, Ltd.)

4/28/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Episode that Will Swear to Anything” includes the poems “The Aerodynamics” by Rick Bursky (from Death Obscura, Sarabande Books); an excerpt from “The Small Birds of Sound” by Jake Adam York (from A Murmuration of Starlings, Southern Illinois University Press); and “The House” by Philip Levine (from Sweet Will, University of Iowa Press).

4/14/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Gulp and Love Episode” includes the poems “Splinters” by Rosalind Brackenbury (from The Joy of the Nearly Old, Hanging Loose Press); “Untitled (Times there were…)” by Susan Wheeler (from Meme, University of Iowa Press); and “Marblehead” by Rebecca Lindenberg (from Love, An Index, McSweeney’s Press).

4/7/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Episode with Symmetrical Gestures” includes the poems “Gendered Offerings” by Stacey Waite (from Butch Geography, Tupelo Press); “White Chair, Moonlight, Three A.M.” by Frank X. Gaspar (from Late Rapturous, Autumn House Press); “The Himalayas” by B.H. Fairchild (from The Art of the Lathe, Alice James Books)

Audio Saucepan: “The Episode of Missing” includes the poems “We Married in a Taxi” by Shane McCrae from Mule, Cleveland State University Poetry Center), “Poet Emeritus” by Tadeusz Rozewicz (from Sobbing Superpower, W.W. Norton), and “Prayer at Winter Solstice” by Dana Gioia (from Pity the Beautiful, Graywolf Press)

3/24/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Sky High Episode” includes the poems “A Common Ground” by Blas Falconer (from The Foundling Wheel, Four Way Books); “Wings” by Dmytro Pvlychko (from Two Colors of the Soul, Cervená Barva Press); and “Cloud Continued” by Bin Ramke (from Aerial, Omnidawn Publishing).

3/17/13 — Fundraiser // Audio Saucepan: “The Episode That Owns You” includes the poems “Suitcases” by Sarah Arvio (from Night Thoughts, Knopf); “Tipsy” by Michael McFee (from That Was Oasis, Carnegie Mellon University Press); and “We Do Not Own” by Victor di Suvero (from A Gathering of Some of My New Mexico Poems, Pennywhistle Press)

3/10/13 — Audio Saucepan: “The Royal Episode” includes an excerpt from Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s epic book-length poem Time of Useful Consciousness (New Directions), “Dissolve” by Elizabeth Jacobson (from Her Knees Pulled In, Tres Chicas Books), and “The Pleasures of the Door” by Francis Ponge (from the Ecco Anthology of International Poetry, Ecco).

Audio Saucepan: “The Expected Pie Episode” includes the poems “Untitled (This town / works / at dawn)” by Charles Olson (from The Maximus Poems, University of California Press); “Sorrows” by Lucille Clifton (from Voices, BOA Editions, Ltd.); and “Visitor” by Brenda Shaughnessy (from Our Andromeda, Copper Canyon Press).

“Audio Saucepan: The Gathering Episode” -- including the poem “Boston Year” by Elizabeth Alexander (from The 100 Best African-American Poems; Sourcebooks); an excerpt from the short story “Loot” by Nadine Gordimer (from Life Times; Farrar, Straus and Giroux) and an a quote from the artist Thornton Dial (from Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial; Prestel)

"Audio Saucepan: The Going Places Episode" -- including an excerpt from “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Suess (read by John Lithgow, Random House Audio), “I Love Speaking” by Michael McClure (an excerpt from the long poem “Swirls in Asphalt” in the book Of Indigo and Saffron, University of California Press), and “The Bohemian Dinner Poem” by Charles Green Shaw (from Lists: To-dos, Illustrated Inventories, Collected Thoughts, and Other Artists' Enumerations from the Collections of the Smithsonian Museum, Princeton Architectural Press).