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

What I Don’t Know

At the heart of my family tree are only questions and mysteries

Salt of the Earth

The Vice of Asking

“The Love I Gave You Once” by Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Poems read aloud, beautifully

God and Hip-Hop

Finding the sacred in the profane

Hashtag Lit

Leah Price on how books were social media all along

The Story of a Stare Down

How two antagonists from Tudor England ended up facing each other on Fifth Avenue

On the Road

An excerpt from Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City and Points in Between by Ceilidh Michelle

Vagabond: Venice Beach, Slab City, and Points in Betweenby Ceilidh Michelle

The House

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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