SPOTLIGHT

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024

SPOTLIGHT

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

By Stephanie Bastek Monday, December 30, 2024

Smarty Pants Podcast

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

Asturias Days

A Story for Christmas

Read Me a Poem

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

Double Exposure

On our first memories

Web Essays

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

Asturias Days

Such as It Is

Read Me a Poem

“Guests” by Celia Thaxter 

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Next Line, Please

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Three new prompts

Smarty Pants Podcast

Kinship and Contradictions

Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz on the complexities of Native American identity

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The Writing on the Wall

Augustine Sedgewick on his discovery of Henry David Thoreau’s connection to slavery

Article

Thoreau’s Pencils

How might a newly discovered
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hero and his writing?

Asturias Days

As I Walked Out One Morning

Read Me a Poem

“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Article

Look Out!

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The legacy of Willie Mays and the Birmingham ballpark where he first made his mark

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Rap Rap Rap

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From All Souls by Saskia Hamilton

Poems read aloud, beautifully

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This Woman’s Work

Susannah Gibson opens the parlor doors on 18th-century feminism

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