“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

Just Yesterday

“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday

Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history

All Talk

Ease of communication will not save us

Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr

Burned

“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paige Ledom

Out of the ordinary

March: A Sonnet

Decoding DNA

On the hunt for the genetic roots of mental illnesses

Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

Did they know how good they had it?

The Sound of Evil

How did classical music in movies and television become synonymous with villainy?

A Different Sort of Superhero

Black Panther reminds us of comic book protagonists outside the mainstream

Carnival

“Crossing the Bar ” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Not Waving

Frank Delaney and the nearing tide

Rites of Spring

Virgil Thomson’s Feast of Love

The Bitter Truth

A culture exemplified by an over-sweet cuppa joe

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