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

The Falcon’s Odd Little Cousin

Jonathan Meiburg on the smartest bird you’ve never heard of

Royal Electric

“En Route” by Adam Zagajewski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Imagined Cuisines

Anya von Bremzen on what makes a “national dish”

Friend From My Youth

“Morning Swim” by Maxine Kumin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

What Could Be Wurst?

Jamie Loftus on the wild American world of hot dogs

Hello in There

“The Portrait” by Stanley Kunitz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jessica Fields

Painting with a palette knife

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