“Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sienna Martz

Sculpting the detritus of fast fashion

The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

Thoreau’s Pencils

How might a newly discovered
connection to slavery change
our understanding of an abolitionist
hero and his writing?

As I Walked Out One Morning

“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Look Out!

Why did it take so long to protect
spectators of America’s favorite pastime?

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

Rap Rap Rap

From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

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

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