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King, Kennedy, and the Power of Words

How candor and poetry can change the course of history

By Tim Wendel | Thursday, March 29, 2012

Time to Milk the Cows

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wage Slaves

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, March 25, 2012

Scribble, Scribble

By Michael Dirda | Friday, March 23, 2012

The Mourning Paper

By Thomas Mallon | Thursday, March 22, 2012

The Mind Paused / Not at All

By Jessica Love | Thursday, March 22, 2012

Our Mastodon

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Education and Brainwashing

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Occupy Portland

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, March 18, 2012

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday, January 17, 2025

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

By David Lehman | Thursday, January 16, 2025

Casa Gorín

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 15, 2025

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Birthday Boy

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 8, 2025

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

By Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 6, 2025

New Year, Old Year

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 1, 2025

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 31, 2024

The Snow Maiden

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

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday, December 30, 2024

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