Something New in the West

Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front

The Resistance Fighter as Philosopher

Remembering Vladimir Jankélévitch

Winter Sun

“The Vow” by Yuliya Musakovska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Lindsey Weber

Relationships that define us

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

“Daybreak in Alabama” by Langston Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jane Skafte

The language of trees

Turning the World to Powder

Jay Owens on the tiny particles that float through our lives

A Terrifying Delight

Following Robert Frost into the depths

The Scales

“The Answering Machine” by Linda Pastan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Just When You Thought It Wasn’t Safe …

How Wilbert Longfellow turned America into a nation of swimmers

Imperfecta

Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing

Mystery Solved!

“The Peace of Wild Things” by Wendell Berry

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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