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

Hangama Amiri

Afghan Women’s Lives, Past and Present

Listening to the Dead

Alexa Hagerty on how forensic anthropology exhumes crimes against humanity

The Musical Bard

A turn through the musical museum of folk song and family

Burning or Being Burned?

“Seth Compton” by Edgar Lee Masters

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The World at the End of a Line

The grandson of one of American literature’s Lost Generation novelists reflects on his namesake’s love of the sea

Riding to the Rescue

“A Hand Not Ready for Birds” by Muhammed Ali Chamseddine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Remembering Alison

A writer who relished the extremes in life and found humor in the darkest regions

Twenty Years of War

Ghaith Abdul-Ahad on the invasion of Iraq and the turmoil that followed in his homeland

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