“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 11, 2025
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
By Rosanna Warren Thursday, February 6, 2025
“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, February 4, 2025
The Epic Viking Saga of the Everyday
Eleanor Barraclough on the ordinary people of Norse history
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, January 31, 2025
“The White Heart of God” by Jack Gilbert
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, January 28, 2025
The Gray Edges of Blackness
Emily Bernard’s essays explore her own experience of race in America
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 22, 2019
“Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, February 22, 2019
Double Lives
What is truth in an un-heroic age?
By Thomas Chatterton Williams Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Postcolonial Punchlines
Alain Mabanckou on what a joke can do
By Stephanie Bastek Friday, February 15, 2019
“I shall forget you presently, my dear” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems read aloud, beautifully
By Amanda Holmes Friday, February 15, 2019
