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December 6, 2022
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“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos

“The Sadness of Clothes” by Emily Fragos

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 29, 2022
“We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky

“We Lived Happily During the War” by Ilya Kaminsky

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 22, 2022
“For My People” by Margaret Walker

“For My People” by Margaret Walker

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 15, 2022
“The Glow of the Night Sky” by Jaan Kaplinski

“The Glow of the Night Sky” by Jaan Kaplinski

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 08, 2022
“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The Windhover” by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, November 01, 2022
“He Is Quiet and So Am I” by Mahmoud Darwish

“He Is Quiet and So Am I” by Mahmoud Darwish

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 25, 2022
“Plurality” by Louis MacNeice

“Plurality” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 18, 2022
“Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska

“Under a Certain Little Star” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 11, 2022
“The Yellow Star That Goes With Me” by Jessica Greenbaum

“The Yellow Star That Goes With Me” by Jessica Greenbaum

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, October 04, 2022
“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore

“Unending Love” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died this year at the age of 70. She is beloved for her sweeping Wolf Hall trilogy, for which she won two Booker Prizes. But long before rehabilitating Thomas Cromwell’s reputation, Mantel was unparalleled in her crystalline dissections of power, whether between girls at the University of London or Dantonists in the French Revolution. In honor of Mantel’s enormous contributions to literature, dive back into her Tudor world with Penelope Rowlands’s essay about one of the key power dynamics Mantel explored: that between Cromwell and Sir Thomas More.

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