Four Poems

Rock in the Road

“A Song” by Joseph Brodsky

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Deb Sokolow

Usurping Utopia

Sex and Secrets

Rare is the Hitchcock film that celebrates desire without disaster

Paleolithic Passions

Charles Foster attempts to live—and think—as humans did 40,000 years ago

If You Can’t See the Stage, Turn to the Page

With theaters shut during the pandemic, reading plays has shed surprising light on works both familiar and strange

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Lifelines

Bartleby the Scrivener

If you’re dead or fictional, we’re the dating service for you!

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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