Stephen Sacco
@stephensacco.bsky.social
An American abroad in Scotland, PhD University of St Andrews, host of The Plague Remedy Podcast, and former award-winning journalist in the US, published in Rumpus, The Herald Scotland and others, check me out at https://www.plagueremedy.com/
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🎙 New Episode 🎙
Risk, Laugh, Repeat: Writing, Humour and Reinvention with Lucy Wang
This week on Story, we're joined by the inspiring Lucy Wang, award-winning playwright, performer, educator and creative force.
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Risk, Laugh, Repeat: Writing, Humour and Reinvention with Lucy Wang
This week on Story, we're joined by the inspiring Lucy Wang, award-winning playwright, performer, educator and creative force.
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Risk, Laugh, Repeat: Writing, Humor, and Reinvention with Lucy Wang
Podcast Episode · Plague Remedy Podcast · 03/02/2026 · 58m
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February 3, 2026 at 2:58 PM
🎙 New Episode 🎙
Risk, Laugh, Repeat: Writing, Humour and Reinvention with Lucy Wang
This week on Story, we're joined by the inspiring Lucy Wang, award-winning playwright, performer, educator and creative force.
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Risk, Laugh, Repeat: Writing, Humour and Reinvention with Lucy Wang
This week on Story, we're joined by the inspiring Lucy Wang, award-winning playwright, performer, educator and creative force.
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"To stay alive, even the dead must endure / temporariness."
From "Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion," a new poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social.
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From "Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion," a new poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social.
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February 3, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"To stay alive, even the dead must endure / temporariness."
From "Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion," a new poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social.
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From "Given Limits Exist, Streets, Oblivion," a new poem by @chelsdingman.bsky.social.
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New Story episode! David Herd talks about "non-persons" — people pushed to the edge of belonging through detention, dispersal, and silence.
A difficult, necessary and deeply humane conversation.
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A difficult, necessary and deeply humane conversation.
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Non-Persons: Stories at the Edge of Belonging — with Professor David Herd
Podcast Episode · Plague Remedy Podcast · 27/01/2026 · 54m
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January 31, 2026 at 3:19 PM
New Story episode! David Herd talks about "non-persons" — people pushed to the edge of belonging through detention, dispersal, and silence.
A difficult, necessary and deeply humane conversation.
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A difficult, necessary and deeply humane conversation.
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📣 New Episode!
Okay, a bit of a technical glitch delayed this episode, but it's worth it.
🎙️ Short Stories, Big Hearts: Author John Sheirer Talks Writing, Teaching, and This American Moment
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I talk with John Sheirer—writer, teacher, and all-around good guy.
Okay, a bit of a technical glitch delayed this episode, but it's worth it.
🎙️ Short Stories, Big Hearts: Author John Sheirer Talks Writing, Teaching, and This American Moment
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I talk with John Sheirer—writer, teacher, and all-around good guy.
June 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
📣 New Episode!
Okay, a bit of a technical glitch delayed this episode, but it's worth it.
🎙️ Short Stories, Big Hearts: Author John Sheirer Talks Writing, Teaching, and This American Moment
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I talk with John Sheirer—writer, teacher, and all-around good guy.
Okay, a bit of a technical glitch delayed this episode, but it's worth it.
🎙️ Short Stories, Big Hearts: Author John Sheirer Talks Writing, Teaching, and This American Moment
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I talk with John Sheirer—writer, teacher, and all-around good guy.
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Thanks to @plagueremedypodast.bsky.social and hosts @stephensacco.bsky.social and @chlivermore.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my recent work, the uncanny, horror, and more. @horrorstudies.bsky.social
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
This week on The Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down for a fascinating conversation with novelist, essayist, and journalist James Reich.
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This week on The Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down for a fascinating conversation with novelist, essayist, and journalist James Reich.
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#Podcast #WritersLife #Literature #GenreFiction #SciFi #Uncanny #plagueremedypodcast
February 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Thanks to @plagueremedypodast.bsky.social and hosts @stephensacco.bsky.social and @chlivermore.bsky.social for having me on to discuss my recent work, the uncanny, horror, and more. @horrorstudies.bsky.social
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Good morning bluesky!
June 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Good morning bluesky!
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📚 New Episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast
Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on the Arctic wilds of Svalbard, the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on the Arctic wilds of Svalbard, the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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June 5, 2025 at 1:50 PM
📚 New Episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast
Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on the Arctic wilds of Svalbard, the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on the Arctic wilds of Svalbard, the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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📚 New Episode: Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on Grief, Whalebones, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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Novelist Cynthia Reeves joins us for a conversation that spans the Arctic wilds of Svalbard and the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory.
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Novelist Cynthia Reeves joins us for a conversation that spans the Arctic wilds of Svalbard and the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory.
June 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
📚 New Episode: Award-Winning Novelist Cynthia Reeves on Grief, Whalebones, and Writing at the Ends of the Earth 🎙️
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Novelist Cynthia Reeves joins us for a conversation that spans the Arctic wilds of Svalbard and the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory.
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Novelist Cynthia Reeves joins us for a conversation that spans the Arctic wilds of Svalbard and the emotional terrain of grief, faith, and memory.
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My new novel, The Execution of Tertius Lafontaine, is now available for pre-order.
Cynthia Reeves, whose extraordinary and beautiful novel The Last Whaler was a New York Times-recommended book), calls it, among other things, “Poignant and gripping.”
Cynthia Reeves, whose extraordinary and beautiful novel The Last Whaler was a New York Times-recommended book), calls it, among other things, “Poignant and gripping.”
May 14, 2025 at 8:35 AM
My new novel, The Execution of Tertius Lafontaine, is now available for pre-order.
Cynthia Reeves, whose extraordinary and beautiful novel The Last Whaler was a New York Times-recommended book), calls it, among other things, “Poignant and gripping.”
Cynthia Reeves, whose extraordinary and beautiful novel The Last Whaler was a New York Times-recommended book), calls it, among other things, “Poignant and gripping.”
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🎙️ New Episode Out Now: "Writing Big and Writing Small" with Brooke Berman ✍️
🎬 Brooke Berman's Ramona at Midlife is out now!
In this episode of Plague Remedy, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Brooke Berman joins me to talk about how her new film came to life.
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🎬 Brooke Berman's Ramona at Midlife is out now!
In this episode of Plague Remedy, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Brooke Berman joins me to talk about how her new film came to life.
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May 13, 2025 at 1:11 PM
🎙️ New Episode Out Now: "Writing Big and Writing Small" with Brooke Berman ✍️
🎬 Brooke Berman's Ramona at Midlife is out now!
In this episode of Plague Remedy, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Brooke Berman joins me to talk about how her new film came to life.
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🎬 Brooke Berman's Ramona at Midlife is out now!
In this episode of Plague Remedy, award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director Brooke Berman joins me to talk about how her new film came to life.
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Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after flying back to the United States from overseas on Sunday.
Hasan Piker, Popular Left-Wing Streamer, Says He Was Detained at Airport
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May 13, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hasan Piker, a popular Turkish American online streamer, said he was stopped and questioned for hours about his political beliefs by U.S. Customs and Border Protection after flying back to the United States from overseas on Sunday.
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
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May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
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Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
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🎙 BEST OF: Andrea J. Buchanan on What's it like to have a headache 24/7
We're revisiting one of our most resonant and inspiring conversations—our episode with Andrea J. Buchanan, author memoir 'The Beginning of Everything.' Andrea opens up about recovery.
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We're revisiting one of our most resonant and inspiring conversations—our episode with Andrea J. Buchanan, author memoir 'The Beginning of Everything.' Andrea opens up about recovery.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
🎙 BEST OF: Andrea J. Buchanan on What's it like to have a headache 24/7
We're revisiting one of our most resonant and inspiring conversations—our episode with Andrea J. Buchanan, author memoir 'The Beginning of Everything.' Andrea opens up about recovery.
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We're revisiting one of our most resonant and inspiring conversations—our episode with Andrea J. Buchanan, author memoir 'The Beginning of Everything.' Andrea opens up about recovery.
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🎙️ New Episode — Creativity as Spiritual Practice with George Drance
🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast featuring George Drance — a multifaceted actor, director, translator, and Jesuit priest.
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🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast featuring George Drance — a multifaceted actor, director, translator, and Jesuit priest.
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May 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🎙️ New Episode — Creativity as Spiritual Practice with George Drance
🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast featuring George Drance — a multifaceted actor, director, translator, and Jesuit priest.
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🎙️ Tune in to the latest episode of the Plague Remedy Podcast featuring George Drance — a multifaceted actor, director, translator, and Jesuit priest.
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What a fucking nightmare this would be. Yes, let's plug the kids into the Lying Plagiarism Machine. Pump them full of dubious content slurry stolen from the work of actual people but mashed up in such a way to get half the shit wrong, and also, deeply vulnerable to propagandized edits.
"Federal agencies would be instructed to take steps to train students in using AI...The agencies would also be asked to partner with the private sector...All educators should undergo professional development to integrate AI into all subject areas, the draft order says."
Draft executive order outlines plan to integrate AI into K-12 schools
A policy under consideration by the White House and seen by The Post instructs federal agencies on how to incorporate artificial intelligence into classrooms.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
What a fucking nightmare this would be. Yes, let's plug the kids into the Lying Plagiarism Machine. Pump them full of dubious content slurry stolen from the work of actual people but mashed up in such a way to get half the shit wrong, and also, deeply vulnerable to propagandized edits.
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Discover the intriguing mind of Sarah Tolmie—poet, novelist, scholar, and author of *All the Horses of Iceland*. Her boundless, poetic imagination is wonderfully unique. This podcast episode is a goldmine for both writers and readers! #WritingCommunity #Podcast
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April 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Discover the intriguing mind of Sarah Tolmie—poet, novelist, scholar, and author of *All the Horses of Iceland*. Her boundless, poetic imagination is wonderfully unique. This podcast episode is a goldmine for both writers and readers! #WritingCommunity #Podcast
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🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️
What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation.
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What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️
What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation.
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What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
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🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️
What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
The brilliant and insightful Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation this week on the Plague Remedy Podcast.
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What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
The brilliant and insightful Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation this week on the Plague Remedy Podcast.
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April 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🎙️
What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
The brilliant and insightful Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation this week on the Plague Remedy Podcast.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
What do McRibs, mixtapes, punk rock, and public defense have in common?
The brilliant and insightful Juanita E. Mantz (aka JEM) tells you in this electric, heartfelt, and eye-opening conversation this week on the Plague Remedy Podcast.
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We continue with our BEST OF episodes of the Plague Remedy Podcast with Christian Livermore, talking about her memoir 'We Are Not Okay: Elegy for a Broken America.'
Her writing is so honest, painfully at times, but not without humor.
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Her writing is so honest, painfully at times, but not without humor.
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March 27, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We continue with our BEST OF episodes of the Plague Remedy Podcast with Christian Livermore, talking about her memoir 'We Are Not Okay: Elegy for a Broken America.'
Her writing is so honest, painfully at times, but not without humor.
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Her writing is so honest, painfully at times, but not without humor.
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🌀 Just dropped a new Plague Remedy Podcast episode with John Madera—writer, editor, publisher, arts advocate, and champion of the weird and the strange. Leap into the Void!
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#BigOther #IndiePublishing #BookTalk #LiteraryPodcast #BlueskyBooks #KeepBooksWeird
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#BigOther #IndiePublishing #BookTalk #LiteraryPodcast #BlueskyBooks #KeepBooksWeird
April 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
🌀 Just dropped a new Plague Remedy Podcast episode with John Madera—writer, editor, publisher, arts advocate, and champion of the weird and the strange. Leap into the Void!
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#BigOther #IndiePublishing #BookTalk #LiteraryPodcast #BlueskyBooks #KeepBooksWeird
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#BigOther #IndiePublishing #BookTalk #LiteraryPodcast #BlueskyBooks #KeepBooksWeird
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A gun control group backed by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, plans to spend $10 million to help elect Democratic attorneys general this year and in 2026, an investment it says is meant to help protect the rule of law and democracy while President Trump holds the White House.
Bloomberg Pumps Cash Into the Long-Term Legal Fight Against Trump
The billionaire’s gun control group plans to spend $10 million to help elect Democratic attorneys general, who are on the front lines of legal clashes with the president.
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April 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
A gun control group backed by Michael Bloomberg, the former New York mayor, plans to spend $10 million to help elect Democratic attorneys general this year and in 2026, an investment it says is meant to help protect the rule of law and democracy while President Trump holds the White House.
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I lol-ed
April 3, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I lol-ed
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🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
This week on the Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down with poet, musician, and storyteller Charles Coe! 🎙️✨ He shares his journey as an artist, the magic of blending poetry and jazz, and why kids make the best poets. He even sings for us.
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This week on the Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down with poet, musician, and storyteller Charles Coe! 🎙️✨ He shares his journey as an artist, the magic of blending poetry and jazz, and why kids make the best poets. He even sings for us.
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April 1, 2025 at 1:33 PM
🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
This week on the Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down with poet, musician, and storyteller Charles Coe! 🎙️✨ He shares his journey as an artist, the magic of blending poetry and jazz, and why kids make the best poets. He even sings for us.
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This week on the Plague Remedy Podcast, we sit down with poet, musician, and storyteller Charles Coe! 🎙️✨ He shares his journey as an artist, the magic of blending poetry and jazz, and why kids make the best poets. He even sings for us.
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New podcast cover and a new episode coming tomorrow, no fooling!
March 31, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New podcast cover and a new episode coming tomorrow, no fooling!