Poetry Stand

How a precocious group of high school poets learned to provide verse on demand

Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind

On a classical stage peopled by workers, wives, and lovers

Lady of the Lake

Writer Brenda Ueland and the story she never shared

Apologies All Around

Today’s tendency to make amends for the crimes of history raises the question: where do we stop?

Findings: Amateurism

From the Spring 1976 issue of The Scholar

Cornerstones

Death on the Installment Plan

Growing old gracefully the Rolling Stones way

Inshallah

The war in Iraq might leave us a new word to match a new sense of our own limitations

Autumn 2007

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

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

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