“Failing and Flying” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Heather Kirtland

Grounded Vessels

Mad Dogs and Transcendentalists

How the individualism of Emerson and Thoreau differs from today’s libertarianism

Nature’s Pharmacy

How ethnobotany blends past and future medicine

Henry and Louis

An unlikely literary friendship

Good Enough

A Shattered Sisterhood

“The Ballad of Birmingham” by Dudley Randall

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Alphabet of Joy

People of the Parchment

The ordinary lives hidden in medieval manuscripts

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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