Read Me a Poem

“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

Birthday Boy

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 8, 2025

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

By Noelani Kirschner | Monday, January 6, 2025

New Year, Old Year

By Clellan Coe | Wednesday, January 1, 2025

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Golfers, Toothpaste, and How Not to Overthink

By Jessica Love | Thursday, April 12, 2012

Looking Up and Down

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Lessons from The History Boys

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Back to the Future

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, April 8, 2012

Text Mess

By Michael Dirda | Friday, April 6, 2012

Is the Future of English Bad Science?

By Jessica Love | Thursday, April 5, 2012

Mars on My Mind

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Montaigne on Education

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Toys and Joys

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, April 1, 2012

Books on Books

By Michael Dirda | Friday, March 30, 2012

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