Joel Wayne
ProducerExpertise: writing, production, hosting, programming, project management
Education: Idaho State, Boise State, University of Montana
Highlights
- Fave NPR memory is driving around at night in high school, listening to Echoes
- Got my first three tattoos on an episode of You Know The Place
- I serve as a facilitator for the local chapter of Death Cafe
Experience
I started working with Boise State Public Radio in 2018, first as a freelance podcaster and co-host of You Know The Place, which ran for six award-winning seasons, visiting funeral homes, ostrich farms, and nude retreats for the story. I later began working as a contract producer on Reader’s Corner and Something I Heard, the former in its 24th year of interviewing NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors, the latter a bite-sized literary break, along a monthly theme.
I’m a writer and a reader at heart. In my 9-5, I proudly serve as the public programs manager at The Cabin, a literary arts organization where I work on events with writers and journalists I admire, like Ira Glass, Louise Erdrich, Anthony Doerr, Steve Inskeep, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Elizabeth Gilbert, among many others. I’m always plugging away at a story or script, when I’m not traveling with my bride or telling my kitties to get off the counter.
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On the fourth and final full week of June, Rebecca Evans reads “Memory,” a poem by Helen Hoyt.
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On the third week of June, Rebecca Evans shares her flash essay, “Afterwards.”
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On the second week of June, Rebecca Evans reads “How Music Stays in the Body,” a poem by Lee Herrick.
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On the first week of June, Rebecca Evans reads “The Mosquito,” a micro essay by Brian Turner.
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On the fourth and final week of May, Samantha Silva reads “The Daffodils,” a poem by Shara Lessley.
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On the third week of May, Samantha Silva shares a poem of her own, titled “My Middle.”
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On the second week of May, Samantha Silva reads “The Author to Her Book,” a poem by Anne Bradstreet.
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On the first full week of May, Samantha Silva reads “With Child,” a poem by Genevieve Taggard.
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On the final week of April, Christian Winn shares his prose poem, “Hold.”
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On the fourth week of April, Christian Winn reads “And Then the Weather Arrives,” a poem by Eileen Myles.