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

The Case for Empathy

Walk a mile in someone else’s words

“I Sit and Sew” by Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

How to Save Farming From Itself

The “quiet emergency” created by industrial agriculture

Taking Down Teddy

In our rush to condemn the heroes of the past, we must be sure not to abandon empathy

Forgotten Transcendentalists

Candás and Luarca

Let America Be America Again

“The Two Times I Loved You the Most In a Car” by Dorothea Grossman

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Chao Wang

The Science of Dreams

Race and Public Health

The coronavirus reveals how this country fails to relieve suffering

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