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Four poems

The Joke

The After Time

The future of civilization after Covid-19

Coronavirus in the Shadow of the Holocaust

When we look at the pandemic raging around us, do we really know what it is we’re witnessing?

Jeremy Irons Reads T. S. Eliot

The legendary actor on why poetry matters

Tolerance in a Dark Place

An excerpt from Plague Years: A Doctor’s Journey Through the AIDS Crisis by Ross A. Slotten

Plague Years: A Doctor's Journey Through the AIDS Crisis Ross A. Slotten

Whose World?

“Let Me Begin Again” by Philip Levine

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Swift Completion

Why letters matter

My Premature Autobiography

The form of things as they were, as they are, and as they will come to be

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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