Sand Crab Listen*: Transcript: I walked along the bay with my five-year-old nephew. What are those little holes with bubbles coming out? he asked. Sand crabs, I said. They hide …
Sleep Talker
Anesthesia Watch*: Transcript: is simple you go to sleep you wake up but it is not quite sleep a drop into blankness a fall, a swoop swung out a curtain …
Monday Morning
Watch*: Transcript: In the prelight A heavy sound from upstairs I turn from the front door to investigate. My three-year-old son stands naked in the soft penumbra of dimmed hallway …
How We Die
Listen*: Transcript: “We live today in the era not of the art of dying, but of the art of saving life and the dilemmas in that art are multitudinous. As …
An Unquiet Mind
Listen*: Transcript: Reading I: (From Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament ): “It seems counterintuitive that severe depression or melancholy could be associated with artistic inspiration and …
What the Body Told
Listen*: Poet’s Commentary: “What the Body Told represents an evolution, I think, in my writing from trying to, in a way, make sense of the body in terms that I …
Towards Curing AIDS
Listen*: Transcript: I slap on latex gloves before I put My hands inside the wound. A hypocrite Across the room complains that it’s her right To walk away–to walk away’s …
Technology and Medicine
Listen*: Transcript: The transformation is complete. My eyes Are microscopes and cathode X-ray tubes In one, so I can see bacteria, Your underwear, and even through to bones. My hands …