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 Antebellum Feminine Mystique

Contrary to fables, white female slave owners in the South were just as deeply invested in the institution as their male counterparts

Mansion on the Hill

And a protest on the hot pavement

The Beloved Voice

Listening as a way of healing

Writing on the Wall

Creating a home for St. Louis’s underrepresented arts scene

Chinese Whispers

Please, Sir, I Want Some More

Charles Dickens died 150 years ago today

“Caged Bird” by Maya Angelou

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Movement and Stillness

Quarantine and sculpture in the First Cemetery of Athens

Still Junk Science

How scientific inquiry has been complicit in, or explicitly aligned with, racism and white supremacy

The Founder and the Epidemic

Dr. Benjamin Rush, who signed the Declaration of Independence, could not save Philadelphia from yellow fever

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