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

Unlikely Encounters

Between fact and fiction, poetry and motion, and Milton Friedman and China’s General Secretary

Resisting Mr. T****

Or, the art of the boast

The Short, Tragic Life of Dinu Lipatti

Remembering the pianist on his centenary

Cold Shower

The Heretics

Melinda Green Tepler

Color and Form

Swimming in the Salmon Stream

The AWP convention

Listening to Pärt in the Dark

The music of eternity

Why Go Home?

Word Golf

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