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

Tongass National Park

Preserving the Wild

What’s next for America’s largest national forest?

Piglets

The Piggies’ Tale

“The Listeners” by Walter de La Mare

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Streetcar

’Tis the Season

“Forgotten As If You Never Were” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

books

Thirteen of the Best Books We Read in 2019

From fiction that will pull you in to eight ways the world could end

Christmas lights

A Christmas Carol

“Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bookshelves

A Holiday Reading Roundup

Seven books published by the Scholar’s contributors in 2019

Holly Osborne

Blades of Grass

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