“To David, About His Education” by Howard Nemerov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Dottie Lo Bue

House and home

Masters of Horror and Magic

The German folklorists who helped build a nation

American Horror Story

Jeremy Dauber on our obsession with fear

Part of the Parade

In Reprise: Next Line, Please

A new poetry prompt for players new and old

Reborn in the City of Light

At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives

The March Down Main

“Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova

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

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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