“Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poems read aloud, beautifully

On Aging

Taking measure of a life well lived

Evolutionary Road

Darwin’s great theory was years in the making

Indefinite Stretch

“At the American Express Office” by Edith Bruck

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kathryn Littlejohn

Honoring the Dead

Paris Once Again

Recalling a return visit during the before times

The Frigid Fringe

Bernd Brunner on the icy edge of imagination

Leipzig: Community in Concrete

Grünau’s social life sprang from a muddy wasteland as families tried to turn buildings into homes and neighbors into friends

Somewhere in a Box

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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