Selections from Hafiz’s Little Book of Life

Poems read aloud, beautifully

In the Forest of the Colobus

At a Gambian nature reserve, troops of endangered monkeys—and numerous other creatures—enact a grand drama that plumbs the mysteries of life, death, and regeneration

Song Gatherer

The ghostly Cantares Mexicanos, as rendered by Edgar Garcia

Comfort Fare

Commonplace Book

Remembering Elsa Schiaperelli

Risk

“Ox Cart Man” by Donald Hall

Sleeping Dogs

“Winter Creek” by Jim Harrison

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“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

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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