“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 5:30 pm). Poems also air during hosted music programs.
April 1 – Maria Dudzak reads a poem she wrote titled “I Hate You Burger Queen.”
April 2 – Wayne Kinunen reads “Sea Fever” by John Masefield.
April 3 – Elizabeth Franklin reads her poem, “Unity and Peace.”
April 4 – Rebecca Valentine shares her poem, “Tis Spring.”
April 5 – Don Ludwigsen reads his poem, “Ravens.”
April 6 – Judy Roush reads “Outwitted” by Edwin Markham.
April 7 – Karen Petersen reads Robert Frost’s poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
April 8 – Doug Rhodes read a poem he wrote, “Seeing the World at 7 knots.”
April 9 – Bill Rotecki reads “Immortality” by Lisel Mueller (From Alive Together, copyright 1996, read by permission from Louisiana State University Press).
April 10 – Shellie Tabb shares her poem, “How to Pick Red Huckleberries.”
April 11 – Robert Hall reads “Old Hurricane Hall” by Gilbert McCloud.
April 12 – Janalee Gage reads an original piece, “White Coats and my Mistress.”
April 13 – Mary Jo Turek shares “Perhaps You’d Like to Buy a Flower” by Emily Dickinson.
April 14 – Mary C. Smith reads “Just Think!” by Robert Service. The poem is introduced by her daughter, Lesley Kempsell.
April 15 – Lois Munch reads “Penguins’ First Swim” by Judy Sierra.
April 16 – Deborah Hayden reads “A Song of Wandering Aengus” by Willian Butler Yeats.
April 17 – Clare Bennett reads Emily Dickinson’s “I’m Nobody, Who Are You?”
April 18 – David Katz reads a poem he wrote – “Ravens.”
April 19 – Katy Posey shares an original piece titled “Walking Through Mist.”
April 20 – Keith Smith reads an elegy he wrote called “Meditation from the Boulder of Now.
April 21 – Maggie Freitag reads “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Lameris from the book Bonfire Opera, University of Pittsburgh Press. Read by permission of the author.
April 22 – Pat Tully reads Stephen Crane’s “Do Not Weep Maiden, for War is Kind.”
April 23 – Elizabeth Nelson reads “The Pasture” by Robert Frost.”
April 24 – Shawna Carter reads “Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face” by Jack Prelutsky.
April 25 – Erika Jayne Christian reads “Low Tide” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
April 26 – Mike Gates reads a poem he wrote titled “Haunted House.”
April 27 – Stuart Whyte reads “Songs for the People” by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper.
April 28 – Marni Rickelmann reads “Pity This Busy Monster, Manunkind,” by e.e. cummings.
April 29 – Eric Stone reads Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed.”
April 30 – A compilation piece containing segments from all poems that aired this month.
