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“Postscript” by Seamus Heaney

“Postscript” by Seamus Heaney

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 24, 2023
“The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider

“The Patience of Ordinary Things” by Pat Schneider

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 17, 2023
“The Illiterate” by William Meredith

“The Illiterate” by William Meredith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 10, 2023
“The Fig Tree” by Lasse Söderberg

“The Fig Tree” by Lasse Söderberg

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, January 03, 2023
“I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson

“I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 27, 2022
“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

“Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 20, 2022
“I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos

“I Have So Often Dreamed of You” by Robert Desnos

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 13, 2022
“what the mirror said” by Lucille Clifton

“what the mirror said” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

by Amanda Holmes | Tuesday, December 06, 2022
“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
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The Story of a Stare Down

by Penelope Rowlands

Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most revered novelists, died last 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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