Gazing Into the Abyss

The sudden appearance of love and the galvanizing prospect of death lead a young poet back to poetry and a “hope toward God”

‘Mem, Mem, Mem’

After a stroke, a prolific novelist struggles to say how the mental world of aphasia looks and feels

Between Two Worlds

The familar story of Pocahontas was mirrored by that of a young Englishman given as a hostage to her father

Fragments of Paradise

Gardens like those of Friedrich II at Sanssouci help us to read the world

The House at Belle Fontaine

Tamarack State

Arthur of Camelot

Remembering Arthur Schlesinger, a knight-errant with typewriter

The Short Reign of Fred Allen

Jack Benny’s comic rival starred in a program refiguring “Weekend Update” and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart

History Revisited

Scoundrels

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

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?

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