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Anna Caritj Reads “Meridian Response” by Ben Lerner

“Winter is such a sensory time for me,” our guest this month, Anna Caritj said. “A lot of it is sound. The sound of snow falling. That stillness, that quiet…I was looking for pieces that evoke that stillness, that silence.”

This month, we’re hearing works along the theme of frost. Today, Caritj reads a poem, “Meridian Response,” by Ben Lerner. Lerner is a poet, novelist, and essayist who teaches at Brooklyn College. He’s been a finalist for both the National Book Award for poetry and a Pulitzer Prize in fiction.

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

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.

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