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

Reborn in the City of Light

At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives

The March Down Main

“Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sienna Martz

Sculpting the detritus of fast fashion

The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

As I Walked Out One Morning

“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Giant of a Man

The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

Rap Rap Rap

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