07 June 2009

The Lost Report -- 8 June 2009


For what was intended to be the third of the special "On the Road" episodes, I planned on stopping at an off-the-beaten-path motel somewhere in North Dakota to record and send out the show. However, there was no room at the inn. Or the next one. Or any of them, apparently. In fact, most places I pulled off that claimed to have a motel nearby had nothing but vast plains of darkness; maybe a farmhouse or cow pasture.

So today we aired an "encore" performance of Episode #3 (which is what you call re-runs in public radio when the host takes a vacation, or in my case, sleeps in the back of his Jeep in the middle of nowhere, with no access to electricity or internet. You can listen to that episode here.

In the meantime, here's a selection of sample poems from some of my favorite shows:

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