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An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s <em>Prelude</em>

An Excerpt from William Wordsworth’s Prelude

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 14, 2019
A brunette woman in 1920s attire looks directly at the camera

“The Troubles of a Book” by Laura Riding

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, June 07, 2019
“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

“My Shadow” by Robert Louis Stevenson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 31, 2019
“To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams

“To a Poor Old Woman” by William Carlos Williams

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 17, 2019
“The Ups and Downs of the Elevator Car” by Caroline D. Emerson

“The Ups and Downs of the Elevator Car” by Caroline D. Emerson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 10, 2019
“Aubade” by Philip Larkin

“Aubade” by Philip Larkin

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, May 03, 2019
“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“Well, I have lost you” by Edna St. Vincent Millay

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 26, 2019
“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez

“I Am Not I” by Juan Ramón Jiménez

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 19, 2019
“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

“Daffodils” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 12, 2019
“Gus: the Theatre Cat” by T. S. Eliot

“Gus: the Theatre Cat” by T. S. Eliot

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Friday, April 05, 2019
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Fathers and Sons

by James McConkey

“Could we have been better parents?” At 87, Cornell emeritus professor James McConkey reflects on the inadvertent ways that parents—especially fathers—shape their children. “Most parents don’t want their children to suffer the kind of grief inflicted on them by their own parents,” he says in this essay from our Spring 2008 issue. “By saving them from that, though, they may inflict upon their children difficulties of another kind.” As the father to three sons, McConkey is acutely aware of how his relationship with his own father informed his relationship with his children. His essay “What Kind of Father Am I?” is a meditation on aging, parenthood, and the bond between fathers and sons.