“I Love to See the Summer Beaming Forth” by John Clare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bird of America

Jack E. Davis on how we revere and revile the bald eagle

The Dinner Party

Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible

Loyalty

“Adlestrop” by Edward Thomas

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Life Is a Highway

Dan Albert on how car culture swallowed America

Wicked Brew

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)

Brown Wasps

“Writing in the Dark” by Denise Levertov

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tiger Mom

At a forest preserve in India, a writer sees the world anew and learns how to focus her son’s restless mind

A Midsummer Night’s Stream
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A Midsummer Night’s Stream

Learning to Be Social
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What might Rousseau teach us about how to live with others?

The Murderer as Everyman
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Arthur Fleck’s rise and fall

Revenants

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

The Heart Yearns Without Tears
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After the Fallout
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On jellyfish babies, my father’s pain, and the legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific

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