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

“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Two Fools

“Consolation” by Wisława Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Candace Castle

I’ve seen it all in a small town

The Days After

Remembering Samantha Smith, the girl who dared to dream of peace at a time when so many feared a global war

Routine

“The Bean Eaters” by Gwendolyn Brooks

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit

“There was the rabbit lying in the middle of the road, legs limp but twitching before its head sagged and went still.”

A Clean, Well-Ordered Place

An ode to the grocery store

The River

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