Unpulled Punches

A Most Interesting Young Man

Was that Bob Dylan my sister met on a weir above Woodstock?

The Art of Surprise

Syncopated Clock, Indeed

On Leroy Anderson’s centennial, a defense of the popular composer from an orchestra’s stage

After Callimachus

Buoyancy

In literature, as in life, the art of swimming isn’t hard to master

Symbols

A Look Beyond the Tragic Mystique

Posthumous Keats By Stanley Plumly

The Broken Balance

The poet Robinson Jeffers warned us nearly a century ago of the ravages to nature we now face

Polymer Persons

How can we gaze upon the skinned, displayed bodies of the dead and not be revolted and mesmerized?

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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