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

Such as It Is

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Cancer

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Celebrating an American Icon

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

The Power of the Common Soul

Ives, music-making, and hope

Autumn 2024

A Toothsome Tale

Bill Schutt chomps through millennia to share the story of our pearly whites

Writer on Board

The cruise story from Twain to Shteyngart

Guillermo

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