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

Lines from the Front

Carolyn Forché on a wartime anthology of Ukrainian poetry

Knowledge Before the Fall

Sometimes you simply can’t prepare for a seemingly inevitable outcome

If Only

“The Call” by Charlotte Mew

Poems read aloud, beautifully

George’s Angels

Remembering my time with Balanchine’s dancers

Losing the Lot

Henry Grabar on what parking has done to us

The Lotus Position

What does one of television’s biggest hits have to say about the nature of a certain kind of American tourism?

The Keeper

“The Diameter of the Bomb” by Yehuda Amichai

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Louis Ardine

Walking, Coast to Coast

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