Smarty Pants Podcast

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday, January 31, 2025

Burned

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 29, 2025

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 28, 2025

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

By Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 27, 2025

Cudillero

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 22, 2025

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 21, 2025

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

By Stephanie Bastek | Friday, January 17, 2025

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

By David Lehman | Thursday, January 16, 2025

Casa Gorín

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 15, 2025

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 14, 2025

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Responses to Our Summer 2016 Issue

By Our Readers | Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Autumn 2016

By Anne Matthews | Tuesday, September 6, 2016

The Missing Friend

An attachment that will not die

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, September 2, 2016

Thinking Locally

If you dream it, you can do it

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday, September 1, 2016

Two Kinds of People

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, August 31, 2016

The Story of Egypt

Read an excerpt from Joann Fletcher’s book about the civilization that shaped the world

By Stephanie Bastek | Tuesday, August 30, 2016

The Fake Apology

By David Lehman | Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Becoming a Poet

By Priscilla Long | Monday, August 29, 2016

A Good Day Fishing

From the bountiful bay

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday, August 25, 2016

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