The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

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

Fontaine-de-Vaucluse: Where the Waters Speak of Love

Reading Petrarch in Provence

On the Death of Friendship

Nothing lasts forever

The Conductor Who Knew How to Swing

A remembrance

Family Ties

The Black Car

Julia von Metzsch Ramos

Making Waves

On Keeping a Blog

A Farewell

Brazil by Way of Bach

The music of Heitor Villa-Lobos

The Price of Assimilation

Reverence vs. resemblance

Andrew Yamauchi

Visions of Paradise

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