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

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

Jeremy Irons Reads T. S. Eliot

The legendary actor on why poetry matters

Tolerance in a Dark Place

An excerpt from Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A. Slotten

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS CrisisRoss A. Slotten

Whose World?

“Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Swift Completion

Why letters matter

My Premature Autobiography

The form of things as they were, as they are, and as they will come to be

Studying Stones

What rocks reveal about the stories we’ve lost and the stories we tell

The AI Will See You Now

New screening tools can predict which ER patients are most at risk for PTSD

The Ornithologist

“Spring and Fall” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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