“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 – Doug Rhodes reads a poem he wrote – “Not Worth a S#&!”
April 2 – Jamie King recites “Nothing Gold Can Stay” by Robert Frost.
April 3 – Wayne Kinunen reads “Pity the Nation” by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Copyright 2007. Read with permission by City Lights Bookstore of San Francisco).
April 4 – Traci Neal reads an original piece “Bounty Fills the Body.”
April 5 – C.I. Martin wrote and recites “The Sunday Bee Stung Me.”
April 6 – David Wieler reads his poem “Otters Sunk Our Skiff.”
April 7 – Judith McQuerry reads “We Went Out on the Porch” by George Pasley with permission of the author.
April 8 – Pat Tully reads a selection from Edgar Lee Masters’ “Spoon River Anthology.”
April 9 – Karen Petersen reads “Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich” (copyright 2006) read by permission of the author, Adam Rex.
April 10 – Bob Crochelt reads “Little Servant” written by his mentor, David Shapiro.
April 11 – Rebecca Brown reads “There Will Come Soft Rains” by Sara Teasdale.
April 12 – Janalee Gage reads her poem “I Crave.”
April 13 – Valerie Brooks reads “If I must Die” by Refaat Alareef (copyright 2024. Read with permission by the author’s family and OR Books)
April 14 – Jessica Clark reads and untitled poem written by her mother, Darlene Joyce McCampbell.
April 15 – Deborah Hayden reads “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman.
April 16 – Amie Toepfer reads “A Jellyfish” by Marianne Moore.
April 17 – Mike Gates reads “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll.
April 18 – Judith Green reads “The Swing” by Robert Louis Stevenson.
April 19 – Elizabeth Nelson reads “Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright.
April 20 – Frances Klein reads her poem “Schoenbar Road.”
April 21 – Dave Kiffer reads his poem “A Final Blessing.”
April 22 – Keith Smith reads “Why Faith Abides” by Phoebe Newman.
April 23 – Fredrick Williams reads “Excelsior” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
April 24 – Jack Finnegan reads “Now and Then” by Charles Bertram Johnson.
April 25 – Rich Trojan reads an original poem he wrote inspired by “One Poem a Day Won’t Kill You.”
April 26 – Jack Darrell reads “Elegiac” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
April 27 – Mary Kowalczyk reads “Hope is a Thing with Feathers” by Emily Dickinson.
April 28 – David Katz reads “The New Colossus” by Emma Lazarus.
April 29 – Stephanie Patton reads her poem “The Creature I Love.”
April 30 – This compilations poem contains excerpts from all of the poems read this month.
