Dear Fox, Dear Barn

Featuring GennaRose Nethercott & Ben Clark

Two beings shared a fleeting but intimate bond. Now, they exchange letters that trace the evolution and eventual ebbing of their relationship over time and distance. A familiar story told through strange voices: Lovers, once close, watch the inevitable rift that grows in their relationship as one leaves for adventure and the other remains in the place they call home. That the lovers in this story are an old barn in rural Nebraska and a fox roving the countryside doesn't make the story any different. But the haunting landscape and the stories they tell one another might.

Bestiary is produced by Meg Sipos Eric Botts.

Thanks to GennaRose Nethercott and Ben Clark for allowing us to record and air these poems and for lending their voices to the project.

Some of these poems were first published online, in text form, at the literary journal, The Offing. They were also a finalist in the Black Lawrence Black River Chapbook Competition.

Podington Bear created our ad music. Additional music in this episode from Frank Haffort, Howie Mitchell, the Illinois Brass Band, ZAZ, and Marion Harris.

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