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

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

My Peony

“My Possessions” by Charles Simic

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Teaching and Telling

“The Sick Wife” by Jane Kenyon

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kate Jarvik Birch

Finding beauty in the mundane

The Very Elder Statesman

Konrad Adenauer transformed West Germany, doing his best work as an octogenarian

In-Between Time

“Snow” by David Berman

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tales From an Attic

Suitcases once belonging to residents of a New York State mental hospital tell the stories of long-forgotten lives

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett

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