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

No Place Like “Home”

By William Zinsser | Friday, September 23, 2011

Parse This

By Jessica Love | Thursday, September 22, 2011

Seattle library interior

The Red Room

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Learning and its Limits

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Subway interior

Subway Seminar

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, September 19, 2011

Flunking Description

By William Zinsser | Friday, September 16, 2011

Tyler Is Setting Up a Tent

By Jessica Love | Thursday, September 15, 2011

The Moon

By Priscilla Long | Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Habit

By Paula Marantz Cohen | Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Apollo’s Creed

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, September 12, 2011

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