“Someone” by Dennis O’Driscoll

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Quest for Cather

When subjects play hard to get

Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather by Benjamin Taylor by Benjamin Taylor

Valentine’s Day

“Poem about My Rights” by June Jordan

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Fawn Rogers

“Create or die”

Rip Tide

Trouble at a Spanish beach

Cuts

Annus Horribilis

“To a Milkmaid” by Carolyn Wells

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Tunneling for Daylight

All hail the miraculous, tenacious carpenter bee

“Muse Circe Reclaims Her Lucre”

Five new prompts

In the Endless Arctic Light

A journey to the far north of Norway means confronting our changing climate

The Bears

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg: The Whole Equationby Kenneth Turan

Such People

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

The Fair Fields

Only rarely did the outside world intrude on an idyllic Connecticut childhood, but in the tumultuous 1960s, that intrusion included an encounter with evil

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