Ruth Scott Blackson

Chipped Glitter

“Nirvana” by Charles Bukowski

“A poem of this caliber needs a revitalization”

Searching

The Long Run

“Dungeon” by Rabindranath Tagore

Poems read aloud, beautifully

A Good Yarn

Once upon a time, a woman adopted a 676-pound bale of wool and got an inside look at a disappearing industry

Cross

Too Long Ignored

An engaging look at the forces that shaped history south of the border

Silver, Sword & Stone: Three Crucibles in the Latin American Story by Marie Arana

Marcus Cain

Optical Immersions

“November Rain” by Jaroslav Seifert

For All Saints’ Day

Old Christ Church in Alexandria. Virginia, attended by General Robert E. Lee in his youth and pictured here in 1911 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign/Wikimedia Commons)

Divided Providence

Faith’s pivotal role in the outcome of the Civil War

Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln’s Unionby Richard Carwardine

Cudillero

“The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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

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