Susan Bruns Shares Her Poem, "Sixteen"

By Joel Wayne

Published August 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM MDT

This July, Susan Bruns joins us to share works on the theme of dog days. Today, she reads one of her own poems, “Sixteen.” Bruns’ work has appeared in Lithub, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, among many other places. She is currently at work on a memoir about growing up on a small family farm in Idaho.

Something I Heard is supported by Idaho Commission on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

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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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