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

Victims’ Wrongs

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, June 27, 2011

The Last of the Lone Wanderers

By William Zinsser | Friday, June 24, 2011

Words to Live By

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, June 20, 2011

Me and My Relationships

By William Zinsser | Friday, June 17, 2011

Shiny, All-Too-Shiny

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, June 13, 2011

Baseball Without Myths

By William Zinsser | Friday, June 10, 2011

Metaphors We Play By

By William Deresiewicz | Monday, June 6, 2011

Writing for the Wrong Reasons

By William Zinsser | Friday, June 3, 2011

Departures

By Robert Wilson | Friday, June 3, 2011

Responses to our Spring 2011 Issue

By Our Readers | Friday, June 3, 2011

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