Date: July 23, 2012
"I'm O.K., you tell them, but with each passing week the depression deepens. You try to describe it. Like someone flew a plane into your soul. Like someone flew two planes into your soul."
preview | full record— Díaz, Junot (b. 1968)
Date: 2012
"Once, borracho, at breakfast, / he said: The heart can only be broken / / once, like a window."
preview | full record— Corral, Eduardo C.
Date: February 15, 2013
"We become a nation of survivalists, alone in the bunkers of our mind, with nothing but empty static on the radio."
preview | full record— Pierce, Charles P. (b. 1953)
Date: February 28, 2014
"A memory palace assembled ad hoc from brownstone apartments, underground caves and submarine compartments, or a diligently designed, continuously flowing and elegant old Alpine resort?"
preview | full record— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)
Date: May 7, 2014
"For a long time I locked the memories away in a room in my mind. I would sometimes touch the door, to make sure it was secure. It was always cold and whenever I opened it to toss in another memory, a biting wind would come roaring out. A wind that stank of diesel fuel, spent gunpowder, sand and ...
preview | full record— Armeni, Damon T.
Date: May 7, 2014
"Soon I hope to be able to venture down into those dark corners of my mind on purpose."
preview | full record— Armeni, Damon T.
Date: August, 22, 2015
"Some philosophers claim that we know nothing of the external world outside our minds--nothing compared to what sways in our minds, in the long, twisting corridors of memory, the vast mental rooms with half-open doors, the ghosts chattering beneath the chandeliers of imagination."
preview | full record— Lightman, Alan (b. 1948)
Date: July 16, 2016
"Special short-term memories become permanent memories, which in turn are the foundation stones of Riley's personality, represented by towering islands."
preview | full record— Gabriel, Trip (b. 1955)
Date: August 9, 2016
"I just think it is a window into the soul of a person who is just not temperamentally suited to the task."
preview | full record— Kaine, Tim (b. February 26, 1958)
Date: 2016
"A rumination in my mind / Winding like the ramp at the Guggenheim."
preview | full record— Oberst, Conor Mullen (b. 1980)