February: A Sonnet

Nekisha Durrett

The Sentience of Plants

Searching for the Spirit of Acid House

Has electronic dance music lost its soul?

“I felt a Funeral, in my Brain” by Emily Dickinson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Typical

Indonesia and the West

From Debussy to Lou Harrison

Make Social Media Great Again

… Or at least tolerable

Unimposing Little Gems

Russell Baker was a columnist’s columnist

Susan E. Crowell

Sculpting Pollen

“Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll

Poems read aloud, beautifully

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apartby Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

The Brahmin and His Imaginary Friend

How a classic paean to the honest virtues of a Maine fisherman obscured several ugly truths

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

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