Spokane Public Radio is excited to present Poetry Moment, 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, take a look at our guidelines and e-mail us at poetry@kpbx.org.
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A work that showcases the more 'literary' side of the late poet
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A reading that the captures poet's "embrace of mortality in the human journey"
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A life's trajectory into adolescence encapsulated in a series of brief vignettes
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The week's first reading in memory of a poet who lived with "wonder and joy and love"
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Spaces separated by time and distance but united by their role in a life story
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Into every life a little rain must fall, and it leaves its mark
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Searching for signs of life in the midst of COVID-era stillness
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Anticipating the return of a season's lush bloom. Or maybe the return of something else?
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Human lives and milestones set amid the scale of geological time
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Two poems, the first translated by Grace Mahoney, the second by Diane Seuss with Oksana Maksymchuk