Coming up on today's show:

• Earlier this week President Biden announced he's officially running in 2024. Gabriel Debenedetti, national correspondent at New York Magazine and author of The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama (Henry Holt and Co., 2022), talks about how Biden may campaign, plus his minor-league challengers for the Democratic nomination, Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
• Mayor Adams released his executive budget on Tuesday for the fiscal year that starts July 1.  Elizabeth Kim, reporter who covers mayoral power for the People and Power team at Gothamist and WNYC, discusses the budget, the good news for libraries, and what it means for the City Council and Mayor to negotiate the final budget before the state budget is finished.
• As National Poetry Month winds down and in this month of major religious holidays, Jennifer Michael Hecht, poet, historian, and the author of several books, including Doubt, and her latest, The Wonder Paradox: Embracing the Weirdness of Existence and the Poetry of Our Lives (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), offers poems as an answer for those for whom religion doesn't provide answers, solace or joy.
• Listeners call in to share some high-stakes fiascos that have happened in their work lives, and Steve Cosson, director, writer and artistic director of The Civilians theater company (currently the artist-in-residence at The Greene Space), explains how The Civilians will turn the stories into art. Plus: Robert Johanson, a freelance performer, composer and director, plays a song he wrote based on a listener's story of a fiasco from earlier this week.

Transcripts are posted to each segment as they become available.