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A picture of a ferris wheel

August: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Thursday, August 01, 2019
Close-up photograph of a glass of lemonade

July: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Monday, July 01, 2019
Pink daisies facing the sunset

June: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Thursday, June 13, 2019
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Raging Toward Heaven

by Langdon Hammer | Monday, June 03, 2019
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Four Poems 

by Major Jackson | Monday, June 03, 2019
Close-up photograph of dandelions, with storm clouds in the background

May: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Thursday, May 16, 2019
April: A Sonnet

April: A Sonnet

by Henry Allen | Monday, April 01, 2019
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Afterlives

by Langdon Hammer | Monday, March 04, 2019
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Five Poems 

by Elizabeth Spires | Monday, March 04, 2019
“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden

“Musée des Beaux Arts” by W. H. Auden

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, January 04, 2019
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The NASA You Never Hear About

by Isabelle Taft

Fifty years ago, when Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon, the moment represented years of work and technical accomplishment. But it also left NASA struggling with a daunting new challenge: figuring out what to do next. Over the years, it has answered this question in part by highlighting the dizzying array of inventions it has inspired—some 1,500 a year. “Besides rocket science itself, perhaps the biggest thing people fail to understand about the agency is how its work has reverberated throughout the world in ways we experience directly every day,” writes Isabelle Taft. “It’s a mark of the agency’s enduring influence that even if we never make it there, we’re already living in a society forged by outer space.”