Major Auden

The poet’s new clothes

Tutors

My many mentors at Oxford, from Lincoln College to All Souls, linger like spirits in the mind

The News of the World

Creative Paralysis

The poetry of Louise Glück

Two Poems

More Than Meets the Eye

Lingua Americana

A conversation about words

The Novels Don’t Change, But We Do
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Rereading those works that matter to us proves that books read us even as we read them

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

Cudillero

“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

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