SPOTLIGHT

The Source

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, September 18, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

The Source

By Clellan Coe Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Read Me a Poem

“Snake” by D. H. Lawrence

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Portrait of the Artist

Jason Middlebrook

Tree rings in time

Article

Others

Too many people in the world isn’t the problem—people are the problem

Charles Ives at 150

The Sound of the Picturesque

Charles Ives and the Visual

Charles Ives at 150

Battle Hymns

Charles Ives and the Civil War

Asturias Days

Cancer

Read Me a Poem

“The Bird of Night” by Randall Jarrell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Charles Ives at 150

Anchoring Shards of Memory

We don’t often associate Charles Ives and Gustav Mahler, but both
composers mined the past to root themselves in an unstable present

Smarty Pants Podcast

American Modernism’s Lost Boy-King

The late, great Paul Auster on Stephen Crane

Article

The Redoubtable Bull Shark

Reflecting on one of nature’s most dangerous predators

Asturias Days

A Messy Mix

Read Me a Poem

“Spring” by J. R. Solonche

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Book Reviews

Hometown Heroes

What if the goal is not to make it out of the neighborhood?

Smarty Pants Podcast

Let Us Compare Mythologies

Exploding the Canon, Episode 4

Web Essays

Stereotypes and the City

 What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?

Asturias Days

Bridges

Read Me a Poem

“The Imaginary Iceberg” by Elizabeth Bishop

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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