“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

Women in profile reading on the beach

The Great Summer Read

Why do we persist in this often futile literary quest?

Alexis Granwell

Sculpting Paintings

Illustration of a vintage blue car against a yellow background

Stick Shifts and Safety Belts

How car culture swallowed America

A Breath of Air

An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Pink daisies facing the sunset

June: A Sonnet

A Mexican Mosaic

Carlos Chávez’s Indian Symphony

The Best and Worst of Times

A weekend trip exposes France’s contradictions

Dawn Holder

End of the Anthropocene

Getting Smart

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