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

“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Know Your Earworm

Susan Rogers on figuring out why you love your favorite songs

Bad Jew

Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose

The Stalker

“Give Me Back My Rags” by Vasko Popa

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Baba Yaga Comes to America

GennaRose Nethercott on folklore, fiction, and hidden family stories

The Changing of the Guard

This year’s US Open showed the world that tennis’s next generation is here

Eyes Wide Open

“Talking in Bed” by Philip Larkin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Rhonda Brown

Portraits, Past and Present

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