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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January's writer-curator on Something I Heard, CMarie Fuhrman, reads a poem by Robert Wrigley, titled, "The Other World."
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December's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Danny Stewart, shares one of his own poems, "Winter."
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December's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Danny Stewart, reads a poem by Frank Bidart titled, "Visions at 74."
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December's guest writer on Something I Heard, Danny Stewart, reads "Loneliness" by Fanny Howe.
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December's writer-curator on Something I Heard, Danny Stewart, reads a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins, "My own heart let me more have pity on."
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November's guest writer-curator, Meg Freitag, reads "Thanks" by W.S. Merwin, on the theme of gratitude.
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November's guest writer on Something I Heard, Meg Freitag, reads "Song in My Heart" by Diane Seuss.
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November's guest writer on Something I Heard, Meg Freitag, gives voice to her poem, "A Course in Miracles."
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November's guest writer, Meg Freitag, reads the poem "Small Kindnesses" by Danusha Lameris on this week's episodes of Something I Heard, with the theme of gratitude. -
Writer Hannah Rodabaugh reads "Eating a Mountain" by Deborah A. Miranda on October's theme of harvest.
