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Listen to This, Listen to That: War Portfolio

by Dan Froid

Why does it seem easier to talk about war when it’s used as a metaphor?

I don’t think war is noble
And I don’t like to think that love is like war
But I got a big hot cherry bomb
And I wanna slip it through the mail-slot of your front door

Listen to This, Listen to That: Travel Writing

by Dan Froid

Travel writing is a genre that dates back to Herodotus—he of the tome Histories, which tells you all you ever wanted to know about life in fifth-century Greece, Asia, and Africa.

Listen to This, Listen to That: Spiritual Experience

by Dan Froid

In “Spiritual Experience,” Episode 13 of Air Schooner, Jericho Brown reads from his essay “The Possibility of God.” He discusses his fraught religious history and his reason for writing: “I write because my writing mind is the only chance I have of becoming what the living dead are for me. I exist because I was impossible for someone else to be before me.” Listening to Brown, I can’t help but think of Judee Sill, whose mystical longing expresses a kind of diffracted prayer.

Listen to This, Listen to That: Eat Like a Writer

by Dan Froid

No two things in all things can seem only one;
Because two things so must be one thing alone.
Howbeit, reading of books and eating of cheese,
No two things, for some things, more like one than these.

Listen to This, Listen to That: Everything's Environmental

by Dan Froid

In “Listen to This, Listen to That,” a new feature from Prairie Schooner, we pair episodes of our podcast series Air Schooner with songs that strike us as thematically relevant, insightful, or enjoyable complements.

Kathleen Flennikin served as 2012-2014 Washington State Poet Laureate and won the 2006 Prairie Schooner Book Prize for her collection Famous. Flennikin grew up near the Hanford Site, the former home to numerous nuclear reactors and plutonium processors established as part of the Manhattan Project. Steve Edwards’s memoir Breaking into the Backcountry (2010) tracks his time as caretaker of a ninety-two-acre homestead in southwestern Oregon. These two writers appear in Episode 22 of Air Schooner, “Everything’s Environmental,” where they read from their work and discuss environmental literature. Check out the episode here.

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