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    portrait of Seamus Heaney

    There’s No Such Thing as a Free Nobel Prize

    Atar Hadari

    Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s national poet, discovered the price of fame.

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    Hard or Easy Poems

    Stephen Akey

    Should a poem be hard or easy to understand?

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    To Rhyme Is Human

    James Matthew Wilson

    A poet reviews three essential guides to the history and craft of writing poetry in English, which point to a bright future for versification.

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    Hopeful Anthem Showdown

    Harry D’Agostino

    Who has the best anthem for our hopeless and love-starved world: John Lennon or Leonard Cohen?

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    Who Will Help a Stranded Manatee?

    Boze Herrington

    A. M. Juster’s children’s picture book Girlatee smuggles a timely message into a breezy tale.

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    The Story of a Controversial Devotional Painting

    Joseph Michael Fino, CFR

    Most devotional art is old, formal, and sentimental. The painting I brought to church on Divine Mercy Sunday, a week after Easter, was none of these.

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    The Freedom to Read

    Charlie Tyson

    What is driving the decline of reading? It may not be what you think.

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    Baghardj to Die For

    Narine Abgaryan, Margarit Ordukhanyan and Zara Torlone

    In a short story set in war-torn Armenia, a father and his wounded son live for their neighbor’s daily gift – golden, flaky, and tasting like sunlight.

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    The Library of Convicts

    Dan Grote

    When an inmate finds the prison library inadequate, he takes matters into his own hands.

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    A Delicious History of a Humble Fruit

    Hadden Turner

    Sally Coulthard’s new book The Apple: A Delicious History uncovers the intriguing and sometimes absurd history of this alluring fruit.

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    Christina Rossetti’s “None Other Lamb”

    Marianne Wright

    Christina Rossetti penned this poem of grief, doubt, and faith after the death of her mother and brother. Listen to it sung in an abandoned silo with unusual resonance.

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    The Story Behind Handel’s Messiah

    Alan Koppschall

    Charles King’s book Every Valley details the desperate lives and troubled times that gave birth to Handel’s masterpiece.

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