“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 Christophe by 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

Mornings of Stillness and Wonder

How my son is helping me to rediscover the City of Lights

A Sonnet Is Ample Space

The NASA You Never Hear About

No, the agency did not invent Tang or Velcro, but its discoveries have many applications in our day-to-day lives

A man and his dog sit in the cab of a druck, with the sun filtering in over ranchland.

Heritage Ranching

Preserving a way of life

Red rock formations in the desert are interspersed with cacti and brush

Bonanza of Greed

Myths and lies will, if we let them, spell the end of the public domain

This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption Are Ruining the American Westby Christopher Ketcham

Finding Your Voice

How one writer discovered his when he stopped looking for it and learned instead to listen

A rocket launches into the sky amidst clouds at night.

Our Fate Is in the Stars

Today’s space program still does amazing things, but nothing like Apollo. It’s time to begin again.

Two women stand side-by-side in front of a stand of trees. The woman on the left is dressed in a light-colored coat., while the one on the right wears black.

Southern Secrets

Three very different women haunted by the past

Sisters and Rebels: A Struggle for the Soul of Americaby Jacquelyn Dowd Hall

Summer 2019

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