SPOTLIGHT

The Bears

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, February 19, 2025

SPOTLIGHT

The Bears

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Asturias Days

Such as It Is

Read Me a Poem

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Next Line, Please

“What a Strange Path”

Three new prompts

Smarty Pants Podcast

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

Tuning Up

Verde

Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew

Asturias Days

Cats and Dogs

Read Me a Poem

“Full Moon Rhyme” by Judith Wright

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Katie Heller Saltoun

Tenderness and grit

Fiction

Magic Men

Read Me a Poem

“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Smarty Pants Podcast

Family/History

David Levering Lewis digs into his own origin story

Book Reviews

In the Lions’ Studio

A new dual biography turns the lens on the towering architects of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Asturias Days

Such People

Read Me a Poem

“My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer” by Mark Strand

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Kyung Kim

Far over the misty mountains

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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

Asturias Days

Just Yesterday

Read Me a Poem

“The Frog Prince” by Stevie Smith

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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