SPOTLIGHT

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 24, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

By Amanda Holmes Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Tuning Up

Literary Information Derived From Privileged Writers

Did they know how good they had it?

Smarty Pants Podcast

A Different Sort of Superhero

Black Panther reminds us of comic book protagonists outside the mainstream

Asturias Days

Carnival

Read Me a Poem

“Crossing the Bar ” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Web Essays

Not Waving

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Measure by Measure

Rites of Spring

Virgil Thomson’s Feast of Love

View from Rue Saint-Georges

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Portrait of the Artist

Ambreen Butt

Mark My Words

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Double Exposure

On our first memories

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The Diagnostician of Despair

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Such as It Is

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“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

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Next Line, Please

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