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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Franprix

By Thomas Chatterton Williams | Wednesday, July 27, 2016

On the Streets of Philadelphia

Portraits from day one

By Barry Goldstein | Tuesday, July 26, 2016

A Snifter and a Hoodie

By David Lehman | Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Go West, Young Scholar

Or, how to enjoy a California wine in a national park full of rattlesnakes

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday, July 25, 2016

Family Language

The words that make a house a home

By Ralph Keyes | Friday, July 22, 2016

Protesting Trump

Portraits from day four

By Barry Goldstein | Friday, July 22, 2016

Still in Shanghai

Getting personal—or not

By Phillip Lopate | Friday, July 22, 2016

Waiting for the Nomination

Portraits from day three

By Barry Goldstein | Thursday, July 21, 2016

Beach Days

The ominous portents of sun and sand

By Miranda Weiss | Thursday, July 21, 2016

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