Know Me, One Passenger, The Sidelong Yes, Right on Time, Write Back The NOTICE Issue / June 27, 2026 Listen to the Issue β Welcome to The Notice Issue, where a thing that was there all along finally turns its face toward you and asks why you took so long. Today's poem, "Hill Country Cashier," sets you in front of a woman behind a roadside register whose whole body is a message you almost drive past, and it does not let you look away. For Echoes, I put you in a moving elevator with a young...
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Words Matter, After the Teacher, Said Unsaid, Texas Caprock Poet, The Unforgotten, Looking for Feedback The Tribute Issue / June 20, 2026 Listen to the Issue β For my father, Jesse Kersey "Jay" Guest, Jr., called home on June 18, 2026. Until we meet again.Welcome to The Tribute Issue, where we sit with the oldest debt there is, the one we owe to whoever loved us into being, and ask what it means to pay it in words. A tribute is not flattery and it is not a monument. It is attention turned...
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The First Catch, Reaching for Light, Rung by Rung, Carry the Lamp, Relit The Kindle Issue / June 13, 2026 Listen to the Issue β Welcome to The Kindle Issue, where we lean close to the smallest beginnings and breathe until they catch. Today's poem, "Let There Be Kitchen Light!," is a midnight raid on the freezer, a small pool of brightness flicked on while the house sleeps, and it hands you the sweet permission a person grants themselves when no one else is watching. In Echoes, I light a...
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The Keeper, Blood Carried, Hand Over Hand, Borrowed Voices, Living Proof. The InheritAnce Issue / June 6, 2026 Listen to the Issue β Welcome to The Inheritance Issue, where we trace the long line of what gets handed down and what it asks of us once it lands in our hands. Today's poem, "The Heir," sets you in the corner of a boyhood driving range beside an old man whose every lesson was really a way of teaching you how to live. Step through and you will find, in Echoes, a poet born of an...
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Brow to Glass, Beauty Held, Sensation First, The Answer Back, Already Glowing. The Wonder Issue / May 30, 2026 Listen to the Issue β Welcome to The Wonder Issue, where the looking matters more than the finding. Today's poem, "The Window Seat," follows a speaker with brow pressed to cold glass somewhere above the clouds, watching light move past long stretches of dark, thinking of all the ones who stayed curious long after the world went to sleep around them. You will want to find it inside....
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Cold Believers, Three Departures, Refusing Arrival, Open Water, Posture, Not Destination. The Voyage issue / May 23, 2026 Hear the Issue β Welcome to The Voyage Issue, where not every journey begins at a dock. Today's poem, "I Want to Believe," finds two men high above Telluride, delirium setting in, and the radio filling the dark with something stranger than the cold. It is a voyage poem and the traveler does not know where he is going, only that he is already there. This issue moves through...
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Someone Was Here, Bastille Light, The Climb, Patient Arrival, Form as Pressure. The EMERGENCE issue / May 16, 2026 Hear the Issue β Welcome to The Emergence Issue, where nothing that matters arrives all at once. Today's poem, "Kitchen Door," finds a cracked door swinging open on a Texas ranch an hour from the border, open soup cans on the counter, and the quiet weight of someone who needed that room more than the speaker ever would. Read it before anything else. Echoes visits a Bastille cell...
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Worth Keeping, Born Into It, Count Everything, He Built It, Quiet Courage, Under the Door. The Precedent issue / May 9, 2026 Hear the Issue β Welcome to The Precedent Issue, where everything this week is about what it costs to go first. Today's poem, "Open When Ready," is a deep track, but fitting considering today's craft insight. It arrived the way kept things do, moving through a list of objects most people would throw away until you realize the list was never about objects at all. It is a...
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Borrowed Warmth, One Leaf, The Break That Lingers, Hold the Weight, Paying Attention, The Lake Knows. The trace issue / May 2, 2026 Hear the Issue β Welcome to The Trace Issue, where everything this week is about what stays after the moment is gone. Some things burn bright and leave almost nothing behind. My original poem Leave Some for Me opens this issue with exactly that tension, the wish to hold onto warmth before the cold moves in. It is a small poem about a human instinct, because we...
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