The King and I

“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” by Sir Walter Raleigh

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Samantha Bittman

Flipping the Script (or Loom)

The Last Cigarette

Cinema’s most seductive prop

Crowdsourced Clairvoyance

Sam Knight on the psychiatrist who tried to predict disaster

Voices of the Displaced

The plight of Ukraine’s refugees in Poland

The Runaway

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sydney: A City Beyond Savings

A letter from Sydney, Australia

The Intelligence Gatherers

The secret history of how Imperial Russia kept an eye on its Chinese neighbor

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

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

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