Damien Davis

Semiotics of Culture

The Meaning of Minimalism

Going beyond its glossy lifestyle image to the existentialism at its heart

Not Happy With What We Don’t Have

“Love Poem” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Story of an Exile

Arnold Schoenberg and his Piano Concerto

The Lottery

“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jillian Mayer

Museum Selfies

My Student and Other Wild Animals

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

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

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