Pond

July 10

Sin

“It was enough that I was there, mutely listening as he recited his sorrowful dreams, or spooled out what he called his misgivings, his guilts, his remorse.”

Brick wall in Cambridge

June 29

Tire fire at a meat market production site in Ghana

Ghana: A Burning Problem

How to replace toxic scrap-tire fires with a more sustainable alternative

Running in a meadow

June 22

Sunrise over spires

June 19

A bicycle

June 3

Lilac

May 15

A lifeguard chair on a beach at sunset

September: A Sonnet

Chestnut tree

May 7

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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