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Andrew Motion

Andrew Motion is the Homewood Professor of the Arts at Johns Hopkins University and a former poet laureate of the United Kingdom.

Descent Into the Underworld

Descent Into the Underworld

An excerpt from “How Do the Dead Walk”

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 03, 2018
Four Poems

Four Poems

“The Last of England,” “Hawthorn,” “Surveillance,” and “Fells Point Songs”

by Andrew Motion | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Too Much Poetic License

Too Much Poetic License

An attempt to identify the object of the Bard’s affections

by Andrew Motion | Monday, December 05, 2016
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After the Storm

by Stephanie Bastek

In the wake of Hurricane Dorian, we’re revisiting our interview with environmental reporter Elizabeth Rush. Smarty Pants host Stephanie Bastek asks what the future looks like for America’s coastal residents, especially as climate change contributes to rising sea levels and worsening storm seasons. “The options for the people and animals in these places is stark: retreat or die,” Bastek says. “Those are the options we generally associate with far-off islands, like Fuji or Kiribati. But dramatic, life-changing climate change is happening right now in our own backyard.”