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

Old Favorites

“Harriet in the Promised Land” by Sam Cornish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

You, Me, and the Deep Blue Sea

Matthew Green explores Britain’s ghost towns and drowned settlements

Single Origin or Bust

The quest of the modern connoisseur

Dipping In

“An Introduction” by Kamala Das

Poems read aloud, beautifully

How the Black Creek Lost Their Citizenship

Caleb Gayle on a complicated tale of belonging

Our Remedy

Quack Covid cures and New Age elixirs are just a 21st-century spin on 19th-century patent medicines

A Father’s Story

A Very Specific Excerpt from “Maud” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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