Joel Wayne
ProducerExpertise: Writing, production, programming, project management
Education: Idaho State, Boise State, University of Montana
Highlights
- Favorite NPR memory is driving around late at night 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 of You Know The Place, and later as a contract producer for Reader’s Corner. The former ran for six award-winning seasons, visiting funeral homes, ostrich farms and nude retreats for the story. The latter is now in its 22nd year of interviewing NYT-bestselling, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning authors.
I’m a writer and a reader at heart. In my 9-5, I work as the public programs manager at The Cabin, a literary arts nonprofit, where I create events with people like Ira Glass, Louise Erdrich, Amor Towles, Nicola Yoon and Elizabeth Gilbert, among 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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June's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Anthony Doerr, reads a poem by Charles Simic, simply titled, "Stone." -
May's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza, shares one of his own poems, "Red Dye No. 40."
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May's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza, reads a poem by Luis J. Rodriguez, titled “To the police officer who refused to sit in the same room as my son because he’s a ‘gang banger.'”
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May's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza, reads a poem by Sherman Alexie, titled “The Limited.”
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May's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza, shares one of his poems, "Hidden Talent."
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May's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Tomás Baiza, reads "Hombres Necios" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz.
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Martin Corless-Smith, April's guest writer-curator for Something I Heard, reads William Wordsworth's poem, "Lines Written in Early Spring."
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April's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Martin Corless-Smith, reads one of his own untitled poems.
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April's guest writer-curator for Something I Heard, Martin Corless-Smith, reads Charlotte Mew's poem, "I So Liked Spring."
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April's writer-curator for Something I Heard, Martin Corless-Smith, reads "To Daffodils" by Robert Herrick.
