Taking the Long View

Remembering the terror of a pleasant, late-summer morning

Drawing in Young Readers

The alchemy of children’s illustration

Blue Skies

Memories of a September morning

Green Green Grass

Five Poems
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Autumn 2021

On Our Knees

What the history of a gesture can tell us about Black creative power

“The Day Is Done” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Andrew Faris

Symphony in Sunset

Keepers of the Old Ways

Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive

Above the River of Your Longing

Two new prompts

Casa Gorín

“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Island Royalty

A new biography of a Caribbean revolutionary

The First and Last King of Haiti: The Rise and Fall of Henry Christopheby Marlene L. Daut

The Writer in the Family

The fiction of E. L. Doctorow gave a young man hope of connecting his father and his literary hero

Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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