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 second week of November, Mitch Wieland reads a poem by John Kinsella, titled “Arena."
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On the first week of November, Mitch Wieland reads a poem by Lee Upton, titled “Even If."
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On the fifth and final week of October, Natanya Biskar reads an excerpt from her own short story, “Real Time.”
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On the fourth week of October, Natanya Biskar reads an excerpt from Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel, “War and Peace.”
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On the third week of October, Natanya Biskar reads an excerpt from “The Mountain,” a short story by Nicole Cullen.
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On the second week of October, Natanya Biskar reads a poem by Emily Dickinson, titled “Ghosts."
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On the first week of October, Natanya Biskar reads an excerpt from “Posthumous Fragments of Veronica Penn,” a story by Corinna Vallianatos.
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On the fourth and final full week of September, Jodeen Revere shares her poem, "Summer, 1987."
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On the third week of September, Jodeen Revere reads “At the Bottom,” a poem by Heidi Kraay.
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On the second week of September, Jodeen Revere reads a poem by Tomás Baiza, titled “Six Hours.”