Cudillero

“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

Winter 2019

This Side of Paradise

Aging has its rewards until it doesn’t. I am ready to contemplate the end but not, yet, to give in to it

Made for You and Me

This land has contained our best and worst impulses

Two Poems
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“Museum of Fine Arts” and “Hatbox”

“The Pool” by H. D.

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Opera 101

A crash course in how to love one of the most elusive art forms

Following the Current

The Maestro as Engineer

Ernest Ansermet and Arthur Honegger’s speeding train

Protected by Privilege?

An exercise in illogic

Incarcerating the Innocent

An excerpt from Lara Bazelon’s examination of wrongful imprisonment

Lara Bazelon

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