“My Story in a Late Style of Fire” by Larry Levis

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Philip Gove and “Our Word”

A lexicographer remembers the worst frigging part of the job

Alphabet of Despair

The photographic language of Dorothea Lange conveyed order and beauty in a dusty, impoverished America

On Gaffes

“I Explain a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jay Katelansky

I Will Survive

Listening Anew to an American Nomad

How the Grammys recognized Harry Partch nearly 50 years after his death

Beethoven Underground

One ensemble bids farewell, with another just getting started

Whatever

“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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