Such People

“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

The Wonder of It All
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In search of awe

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Words Matter
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An opera can succeed only if libretto and score are in concert

The Art of Tuning In

Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar

Illustration by Aad Goudappel

Granaries of Language
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Dictionaries are far more than alphabetized collections of words

Eight Poems

Barbarity at the Bataclan

A chilling account of darkness in the City of Light

V13: Chronicle of a Trial by Emmanuel Carrère, translated from the Frenchby John Lambert

Vital Signs
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What happened when my husband became a paramedic

Winter 2025

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Remembering Anton Bruckner

Tastes Like … You Know

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