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

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

New Year, Old Year

“I Explain a Few Things” by Pablo Neruda

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Jay Katelansky

I Will Survive

Beethoven Underground

One ensemble bids farewell, with another just getting started

Whatever

“Her Kind” by Anne Sexton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Down and Out

A woman excised from her eminent husband’s story

Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell’s Invisible Lifeby Anna Funder

A Burning World

Can poetry truly supply the language to express the ineffable sensations of suffering and love?

Two Fools

“Consolation” by Wisława Szymborska

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Candace Castle

I’ve seen it all in a small town

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