رواية سارة تأخذ القارئ في رحلة مشوقة مع شخصية رئيسية قوية تتنقل بين التحديات والصراعات الشخصية والاجتماعية.
تستكشف الرواية مشاعر الحب، الصداقة، والتحديات التي تواجه الإنسان في حياته، بأسلوب أدبي سلس وجذاب يمزج بين الدراما والتأمل النفسي.

جزء من كتاب سارة

رواية من النافذة تقدم رؤية مميزة لحياة الشخصيات من منظور مراقب للحياة اليومية، حيث تُسلط الضوء على الصراعات الداخلية والتحديات الاجتماعية التي يواجهها الأفراد.
تستكشف الرواية المشاعر الإنسانية العميقة، مثل الحب، الخوف، الأمل، والتحديات التي تشكل مصائر الشخصيات بأسلوب أدبي مشوق وجذاب.

جزء من كتاب من النافذة

Getting ready for Halloween, hunting Bigfoot stories, and more in the 10/28/25 Nighthawk. Read aloud by Josh.  Text version at www.JoshUrban.substack.com

Pumpkins and Bigfoot - The Signalman Show, S7 E14

Crystal Simone Smith is the author of Runagate: Songs of the Freedom Bound (Duke University Press, 2025) and Dark Testament (Henry Holt, 2023). In 2022, her collection of haiku, Ebbing Shore, won The Haiku Foundation Touchstone Distinguished Book Award. Smith is the recipient a Duke Humanities Unbounded Fellowship. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including POETRY Magazine, Harper’s Magazine, Rattle, Poetry Daily, Frogpond, and The Heron’s Nest. She teaches in the Thompson Writing Program at Duke University and writes poetry about the human condition and social change.

Find more on Crystal at her website:
https://www.crystalsimonesmith.com/

As always, we'll also include the live Prompt Lines for responses to our weekly prompt. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins.  

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This Week’s Prompt:
Write a poem about the influence music has had on you over the years while making the poem itself as musical as possible. 

Next Week’s Prompt:
Invent a form that borrows something you love about an existing form—but spins it in a new direction. (Also encouraged to submit this to our call for our invented forms tribute section, due January 15th, 2026.)

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ep. 315 - Crystal Simone Smith

Reading a poem that I wrote several years ago; The Great Sea. I somehow managed to screw up reading it, because I started laughing and could not re-record. ffs.

© Cierra G. Rowe

Poem Reading 01 ('The great sea')

We commemorate the birthday of the renowned gay Irish writer Oscar Wilde with an excerpt from the play he was writing in October, 1891 — a scene from a production directed for Pacifica Radio by a “pre-Spock” Leonard Nimoy (hear the complete performance at thiswayout.org, presented by Brian DeShazor).

Plus: The “Rainbow Rewind” recalls the end of the picket line, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’s” demise, and no room at the National Council of Churches.

And in NewsWrap: security police in Surabaya, Indonesia arrest and humiliate 34 men for attending what they allege is a “gay sex party,”  cohabiting same-gender couples will be counted in South Korea’s upcoming national Population and Housing Census, transgender and intersex people in the Virgin Islands now have two ways to change the gender markers on their birth certificates and official government documents under an executive order by Governor Albert Bryan, Jr., anti-bias protections in healthcare for transgender people are being stripped away by a U.S. federal judge, another U.S. federal judge keeps the Health and Human Services Department from withholding education funds to states that do not remove all references to “gender ideology” from public school sex education classes, one more injunction against the Trump administration brings “library books and curricular materials” that discuss race, sexual orientation, and gender back to Department of Defense-run schools, four are arrested when bulldozers come to destroy a Dallas, Texas rainbow crosswalk, and more international LGBTQ+ news reported this week by David Hunt and Ava Davis (produced by Brian DeShazor).

All this on the October 27, 2025 edition of This Way Out!

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A Wilde Tribute to “Salome”

Author Paul Kingsnorth and Professor James Matthew Wilson on September 25, 2025 at the University Club of Chicago.

“Our culture is not in danger of dying; it is already dead, and we are in denial.  This, now, is the reality we have to wrestle with—and transcend.”

We all experience how the rapid advance of technology, especially AI, has affected the way we live, think, and experience the world. But has it also changed who we are? In his new book, "Against the Machine: on the Unmaking of Humanity," Paul Kingsnorth explores the consequences of hyper-technologized society. With the deftness of an essayist who is also a poet, Kingsnorth takes us through the historical and theological roots of post-Industrial Revolution advancement. He ultimately suggests that the dangers we face have a spiritual cause, and spiritual consequences. “If you knock out the pillars of a sacred order,” he writes, “the universe itself will change shape.” This technological reshaping will lead man to become the machine—unless we can learn to transcend it.

A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age: A Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine

Does a background in radio help you write dialogue? What's the one thing you should never include in a book designed for readers with dyslexia? We ask the expert: Lisa Thompson, author of "The Light Jar" and other middle grade novels.

A Conversation with Lisa Thompson

Деньги на мне, я делаю хасл.
В крови керосин, будто Crystal
Castles.
Партию «9» доставил в Ньюкасл,
Скупаю дерьмо, не отходя от кассы.
Курю сигару, заказал из Кубы.
При виде ее кусаю свои губы.
Она недотрога, но ходит по клубам.
Со мной Андрей - не Миркин, а Губин.

TheТёлки demo №2 (2ico)

We read ghost-related poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lola Haskins, & Stanley Plumly, as a thank-you to patrons and a meditation on the field of history.

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Halloween Reading & Thank you to Patrons

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The podcast where middle school readers talk about books.

Painter, poet and outsider artist. Somewhat personal musings, poems and improv poetry can be found here, among my other art-related audio recordings. My poetry and art are driven by a complex combination of emotion, sensitivity and vulnerability, with the conviction that the rawness of true expression should no be dictated by audience. As an artist, I would rather be disliked for being who I am, than to be adored for being someone that I am not. Art and poetry, in their purest forms are unapologetic, boundless and without filter. There is no filter here, only intense passion, with the occasional possibly nonsensical musing. Not logged in often. Ignore and carry on or say what's up and share any germane thoughts.~~


https://www.artofcierra.com/
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All images © Cierra G. Rowe.

Bringing the wonder to Science and the World.

يعمل راوي الكتب على تطوير قنوات التوزيع التي تدعم المحتوى العربي والكتب العربية الصوتية

لمزيد من التفاصيل، تفضل بزيارة موقعنا الالكتروني : https://www.rawialkotob.com/
أو من خلال تنزيل التطبيق على هاتفك الذكي لسهولة الوصول
أندرويد: https://bit.ly/3JeJGb4
أيفون: https://apple.co/3Jh6aIF

History lectures by Samuel Biagetti, a historian (and antique dealer) with a Phd in early American history; my dissertation was on Freemasonry in the 1700s. I focus on the historical myths and distortions, from "the Middle Ages" to "Race," that people use to rationalize the world in which we live.   More info at www.historiansplaining.com

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The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago in 1997 to bring the light of Christ and the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition to the secular academy and the general public. On this station we make available our many lectures and programs, as well as interviews with visiting scholars.

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Meet a new poet every week, as they talk life and share poems with Rattle's editor, Timothy Green. All that, plus Poets Respond and the Prompt Lines—live every Monday! 

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