Adam’s Apple

“The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” by Edward Lear

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Through a Lens Darkly

A photographer on how we represent conflict

The Virtuoso as Aristocrat

Jorge Bolet and one memorable night in 1974

Guessing Games

What you can tell about people—and what you can’t

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Too Much Future

How East German punks tore down the Berlin Wall

“One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Fíjate!

State of Gliss

The art of Gloria Coates

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

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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