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Local commentary on current events with R.W. Estella. Mondays at 7:30 AM

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Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

Producer/Host: R.W. Estela Hi, I’m RW Estela: Since 1991, I’ve been presenting A Word in Edgewise, WERU’s longest-running short feature, a veritable almanac of worldly and heavenly happenings, a confluence of 21st-century life in its myriad manifesta... more

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Philip Metres
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Episode: A Word in Edgewise 5/18/26: Windblown Ticks, Philip Metres, & Hercules Cluster M13 . . .
Kate Colby
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Episode: A Word in Edgewise 4/13/26: Of Horace, Dryden, & Kate Colby . . .
John Lawless
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Episode: A Word in Edgewise 2/9/26: Woodson, Millay, Lawless, & the Moon at Apogee . . .
Anna Roemers Fischer
Poet and aphorist mentioned in relation to Groundhog Day and aphorisms
Episode: A Word in Edgewise 2/2/26: Februum, Punxsutawney Phil, Anna Vischer, Eric Furry, Maggie Smith, & the Snow Moon . . .
Eric Furry
Bookseller previously sponsoring WERU
Episode: A Word in Edgewise 2/2/26: Februum, Punxsutawney Phil, Anna Vischer, Eric Furry, Maggie Smith, & the Snow Moon . . .
Maggie Smith
Poet, referenced for poetry The Before Picture
Episode: A Word in Edgewise 2/2/26: Februum, Punxsutawney Phil, Anna Vischer, Eric Furry, Maggie Smith, & the Snow Moon . . .
Jessica Rigney
Poet, extended metaphor in her poem The Skin's Instruction
Episode: A Word in Edgewise 9/29/25: Of Allaying the Drought & Allowing Jessica Rigney . . .

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RW Estella
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