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Margaret Atwood on Marriage
Margaret Atwood on Marriage

“Marriage is not a house or even a tent…”

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When I Am Among the Trees: Mary Oliver’s Spare and Stunning Ode to Serenity
When I Am Among the Trees: Mary Oliver’s Spare and Stunning Ode to Serenity

“You too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”

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101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt Whitman
101-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor Helen Fagin Reads Walt Whitman

“The pleasures of heaven are with me and the pains of hell are with me, / The first I graft and increase upon myself, the latter I translate into a new tongue.”

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How to Stay Sane as an Artist: Soul-Salving Advice from Poets W.S. Merwin and John Berryman
How to Stay Sane as an Artist: Soul-Salving Advice from Poets W.S. Merwin and John Berryman

Tonic for living with that sacred, terrifying uncertainty with which all creative work enters the world.

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After Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Neil Gaiman’s Stunning Poem Celebrating Rachel Carson’s Legacy of Culture-Shifting Courage
After Silence: Amanda Palmer Reads Neil Gaiman’s Stunning Poem Celebrating Rachel Carson’s Legacy of Culture-Shifting Courage

“Nothing is ever over / life breathes life in its turn / Sometimes the people listen / Sometimes the people learn”

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The Weighing: Jane Hirshfield’s Stunning Ode to Resilience
The Weighing: Jane Hirshfield’s Stunning Ode to Resilience

A well to the groundwater of our strength.

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Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”
Against the Slippery Slope of Injustice: Amanda Palmer Reads Wendell Berry’s Stunningly Prescient Poem “Questionnaire”

The road to moral hell is paved with gradual self-permission.

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Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line
Zadie Smith Reads Frank O’Hara’s Love Poem to Time via an Old-Fashioned Telephone Line

A bittersweet serenade to the bidirectional pull of existence.

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Rachel Carson’s Birdsong Notation, Set to Music
Rachel Carson’s Birdsong Notation, Set to Music

A melodic homage to the patron saint of the modern environmental conscience.

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You Can’t Have It All
You Can’t Have It All

“…but there is this.”

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