“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

Picture of a newsstand

Better on Paper

What the success of a small local newspaper can tell us about the future of print

Playing

Bloodsuckers

How the mosquito changed human history—for better and for worse

The Classical Romantic

Remembering Joseph Joachim

Vicarious Pleasure

The joy of seeing a friend succeed

Shayna Miller

Meditations in Blue

Secret Door

Junk Science

How belief in biological racial difference pollutes the world of science, from eugenics to genetics

“Archaic Torso of Apollo” by Rainer Maria Rilke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Pathfinder

Toni Morrison showed all of us the legacy of slavery

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