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

Teamwork

“Sunday Morning” by Wallace Stevens

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Cherry Blossom Bonanza

Naoko Abe on how an English eccentric saved Japan’s beloved cherry trees—and spread them around the world

On the Record, At Last

My father never got to tell his story at the war crimes trials at Nuremberg—it’s taken decades for the truth to come out

River’s Edge

“Three O’Clock 1942” by Grace Cavalieri

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Purchased Bride

Filling in the Fragments

Diane Rayor on translating the poetry of Sappho

The First Month

“Black Mother Woman” by Audre Lorde

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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