Aloft

And the lessons learned upon landing

Anthropomorphic Trees (Webcomic #7)

What’s that book teaching your child?

The Millipedes of Madagascar

A mining operation is threatening the island’s million-year-old species

Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Seven

Summer Reading List

Beach reading, Scholar style

Details, Please

Full Moons

Adventures in bus driving

I Say Shutout, You Say Clean Sheet

What happens to our speech when we watch international soccer

Monster Mash

How a child deals with dragons signals adult mental health

Help Us Write a Sonnet: Line Six

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

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

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