Diane Raptosh Reads An Excerpt from "What We Ask of Flesh" by Remica Bingham-Risher

By Joel Wayne

Published February 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM MST

Diane Raptosh, February's writer-curator on Something I Heard, reads one an excerpt from Remica Bingham-Risher's "What We Ask of Flesh."

Raptosh has served as Idaho’s Writer in Residence, and her 2013 poetry collection, American Amnesiac, was longlisted for the National Book Award. Her latest collection, I Eric America, came out in October 2024.

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Joel Wayne

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.

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Diane Raptosh Reads An Excerpt from "What We Ask of Flesh" by Remica Bingham-Risher

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