“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 a piece 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.