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Christian Winn Reads His Prose Poem, “Hold"

It’s the final week of April and we’re hearing writing along the theme of rain this month. Today, Christian Winn shares one of his own works, a prose poem titled “Hold.” Winn is the author of the story collections, Naked Me and What's Wrong With You is What's Wrong With Me. He served as Idaho’s writer-in-residence from 2016-2019 and produces the popular summer reading series, Campfire Stories.

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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