“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 Christophe by 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

Plum Local

Handsome Boy
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Major Auden

The poet’s new clothes

Tutors

My many mentors at Oxford, from Lincoln College to All Souls, linger like spirits in the mind

Dean of Satire

A writer’s many masks

Jonathan Swift: His Life and His Work By Leo Damrosch

As Time Goes By

The News of the World

Creative Paralysis

The poetry of Louise Glück

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