“One Poem A Day Won’t Kill You” Schedule
Poems air on Morning Edition at approximately 6:30 and 7:30 am, and at the end of the KRBD Evening Report (approximately 5:30 pm). Poems also air during locally hosted music programs.
April 1 – Lois Munch reads “Diabolical” by Zorian Alexis.
April 2 – Bill Rotecki reads a selection from “Rubaiyat” of Omar Khayyam.
April 3 – Marty West reads a poem she wrote – “I’m White.”
April 4 – Rod Landis reads John Donne’s “A Hymn to God the Father.”
April 5 – Rebecca Jackson reads an untitled poem by George Pasley.
April 6 – Leila Kheiry reads haiku written from the perspective of her pets.
April 7 – Genevive Hiatt reads her poem, “Season Changes.”
April 8 – Don Ludwigson reads a poem he wrote called “Swallows.”
April 9 – Maria Dudzak reads her poem “Lady Thrush.”
April 10 – Lori Ortiz wrote this poem she calls “What the Duck Thinks.”
April 11 – Jack Finnegan reads “Waking” by Octavio Paz.
April 12 – Hannah Carson reads “Worth” by Dallas Clayton.
April 13 – Lauralee Mann reads “Old” by Don Mann.
April 14 – Doug Rhodes reads a poem he wrote – “Lima Flag.”
April 15 – Janalee Gage reads “They Shut Me Up in Prose” by Emily Dickinson.
April 16 – Maggie Freitag reads her poem, “Daydreams.”
April 17 – Eric Stone
April 18 – Karen Updike shares a grade school recording of her mother Shirley Amdam reading “Before Sunrise in Winter” by Edward Roland. Updike reads “Indian Summer Day on the Prairie” by Vachel Lindsay.
April 19 – Stephanie Patton read a poem she wrote – “Into Dusk.”
April 20 – Deborah Hayden reads “Very Little League”
April 21 – Sheila Jacobson reads an original work, “Ode to Gastric Lavage.”
April 22 – Karen Petersen reads “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye.
April 23 – Steve Patton
April 24 – Complete poems from the Ketchikan Area Arts and Humanities Council’s exhibit “Patchwork Poetry” are read by several readers.
April 25 – Willie Smith reads his version of “The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” Alaska style.
April 26 – Judith Green
April 27 – Keith Smith reads “Sandpiper” by Elizabeth Bishop
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April 30 – A compilation piece containing segments from all poems that aired this month.
