“One Poem A Day Won’t Kill You” Schedule
Poems air on Morning Edition at approximately 6:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. and at the end of the KRBD Evening Report (approximately 5:45 pm). Poems also air during locally hosted music programs.
April 1 – Bridgit Stearns reads “The True Practice of Yoga” by Phoebe Newman (with the poet’s permission).
April 2 – John McKay reads and original piece, “End Times.”
April 3 – Tawnya Dillard reads a poem she wrote – “Glimpse of You.”
April 4 – Doug Rhodes reads his poem, “Alaska Wild Salmon.”
April 5 – Jack Darrell reads “Laughter” by Robert Service.
April 6 – Elizabeth Franklin reads a poem she wrote, “And the Day I Woke Up.”
April 7 – Maria Dudzak reads her poem, “Wind Dancer.”
April 8 – Pat Tully reads a poem by Edgar Lee Masters, “George Graham,” from the Spoon River Anthology.
April 9 – Kathy Bolling reads the first stanza of “The Star Spangled Banner” by Francis Scott Key.
April 10 – Barbara Morgan reads “The Frog” by Hilaire Belloc.
April 11 – Rebekka Esbjornson reads her prose poem “Dust.”
April 12 – Janalee Gage reads a poem she wrote called “Six Friends.”
April 13 – Megan Griffin reads “The Letter Kills Me” in Arabic.
April 14 – Lana Clark reads Christina Rossetti’s poem “Who Has Seen the Wind.”
April 15 – Heather Dickerson reads a poem inspired by her childhood, “Don’t Wake Mom!”
April 16 – Erika Jayne Christian reads “Courage” by Amelia Earhart.
April 17 – Thea Ostby reads Shel Silverstein’s “Falling Up.”
April 18 – Karen Petersen reads a poem written anonymously called “Rain.”
April 19 – Marni Rickelmann reads a selection from William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest.”
April 20 – Marty West reads “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas.
April 21 – Marvin Davis reads “The Fishy Tale of Marvin P. Grampy” by Mandy Davis.
April 22 – Tessa Hasbrouck reads Jarod Anderson’s poem “Naming the River.”
April 23 – Atlas White reads an anonymously written poem, “Little Red Apple.”
April 24 – Wayne Kinunen reads “Ripple” by Robert Hunter.
April 25 – Amanda Glanzer reads “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost.
April 26 – Mike Gates reads “The Clean Plater” by Ogden Nash.
April 27 – Michael Fanelli reads “In the Middle” by Barbara Crooker with permission of the poet.
April 28 – Dani Martin reads “The Invitation” bey Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
April 29 – Elizabeth Nelson reads ” The Crystal Gazer” by Sara Teasdale.
April 30 – A compilation piece containing segments from all poems that aired this month.
