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 Story of an Exile

Arnold Schoenberg and his Piano Concerto

The Lottery

“The Gravel Walks” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jillian Mayer

Museum Selfies

My Student and Other Wild Animals

“Advice to a Girl” by Sara Teasdale

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Million Kindnesses

Honoring Jim Lehrer, beloved newsman and friend

The Composer as Dissident

Karl Amadeus Hartmann and the act of bearing witness

cafe tables

The Bucket

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