Food of Love

The magic of Henry Purcell

Ruth Scott Blackson

Chipped Glitter

“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski

“A poem of this caliber needs a revitalization”

Searching

A Good Yarn

Once upon a time, a woman adopted a 676-pound bale of wool and got an inside look at a disappearing industry

Cross

Too Long Ignored

An engaging look at the forces that shaped history south of the border

Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana

Marcus Cain

Optical Immersions

“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert

For All Saints’ Day

A Composer in an Antique Land

The legacy of Arthur Farwell

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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