Special end-of-year program, featuring poetry. Also, Robin on Nancy Pelosi, Angela Merkel, Voyagers 1 and 2 entering interstellar space, Rwandan women seizing the fishing industry, South Korean women smashing make up—and termite engineers.

Robin on why the Founders rejected democracy, the 8 unknown US presidents before George Washington, and the Harriet Tubman $20 bill. Special Poetry Month Show! Guest poets Alicia Ostriker, Robin Coste Lewis, Ursula K. Le Guin read from their work.

Robin on Hillary. For Poetry Month: Sue Leonard, Persimmon Tree editor; Geneva Overholser, the Academy of American Poets; Robin reads Stevie Smith, Leslie Silko, Isel Rivero, Suheir Hammad, Irena Klepfisz, Toi Derricote, and Shirley Geok–Lin Lim.

Robin on the e-publication of Monster after decades of unavailability. Guests: Joanne N. Smith, founder of Girls for Gender Equity; Mormon historian Maxine Hanks shaking up the LDS; and Sarah Marquis, who trekked alone through Asia for 10,000 miles.

Robin comments on happiness research, practices some Verbal Karate, and offers the words of Toni Morrison. Guests include authors Ursula K. Le Guin and Judy Blume, and poet Rita Dove.

Robin celebrates National Poetry Month with guests Irena Klepfisz, Toi Derricotte, and Ursula K. LeGuin reading poems and talking craft. Robin comments on the We Belong Together Campaign for sensible immigration reform—and why the media ignores it.

Poetry Month. Robin celebrates new energy in poetry with Alice Quinn of the Poetry Society of America; Joy Harjo sings a poem; and former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove reads from Mother Love. Plus Robin links the Boston bombing to the Senate’s gun vote.