“Winter Scene” by A. R. Ammons
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 11, 2022
If You Build It, Will They Still Come?
Scaling the border wall
By Eric Wills Monday, January 10, 2022
A Crash Course
The myth surrounding my beloved Aunt Myrtle only grew when she moved down South in the 1940s
By Kenneth A. McClane Thursday, January 6, 2022
“No One Has Taken Anything Away” by Marina Tsvetaeva
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Joan Didion and the Magic of Grief
She went from cool customer to recorder of her own bereavement
By Sandra M. Gilbert Monday, January 3, 2022
The Writer in the Family
The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero
By Jonathan Liebson Wednesday, January 8, 2025
The Weight of a Stone
Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology
By Megan Craig Thursday, January 2, 2025
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 31, 2024
The Snow Maiden
Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice