“My Possessions” by Charles Simic

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Teaching and Telling

“The Sick Wife” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kate Jarvik Birch

Finding beauty in the mundane

The Very Elder Statesman

Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian

In-Between Time

“Snow” by David Berman

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tales From an Attic

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett

Sins of the Fathers and Mothers
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On war, settlement, and collective responsibility

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

Spring 2025

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