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“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope

“An Essay on Man: Epistle 1” by Alexander Pope

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 19, 2019
“The Makers” by Howard Nemerov

“The Makers” by Howard Nemerov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 12, 2019
“Our Casuarina Tree” by Toru Dutt

“Our Casuarina Tree” by Toru Dutt

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, July 05, 2019
Close-up photograph of a glass of lemonade

July: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Monday, July 01, 2019
“Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” by Anne Sexton

“Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman” by Anne Sexton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 28, 2019
“Bessie Coleman Falling from the Sky” by Dolores Kendrick

“Bessie Coleman Falling from the Sky” by Dolores Kendrick

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 21, 2019
An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s <em>Prelude</em>

An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 14, 2019
Pink daisies facing the sunset

June: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Thursday, June 13, 2019
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

“The Troubles of a Book” by Laura Riding

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 07, 2019
A Sonnet Is Ample Space

A Sonnet Is Ample Space

by David Lehman | Tuesday, June 04, 2019
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2nd Look

The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago this week, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”