Smarty Pants Podcast

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

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

By Stephanie Bastek | Monday, December 30, 2024

Blue Notes

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Tracking

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Monday, February 20, 2012

Fiction’s Revenge

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, February 19, 2012

Style Is the Man

By Michael Dirda | Friday, February 17, 2012

Should Two Constructions Diverge

By Jessica Love | Thursday, February 16, 2012

Note to Fellow … Life Cycle

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Teaching Creative Writing

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Occupy the Myth

By William Deresiewicz | Sunday, February 12, 2012

Mr. Zinsser, I Presume

By Michael Dirda | Friday, February 10, 2012

Submissive Sentences

By Jessica Love | Thursday, February 9, 2012

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