In this episode, Makoto Fujimura reads an excerpt from Burnt Norton by T. S. Eliot. Fujimura is a leading contemporary painter whose work fuses abstract expressionism with traditional Japanese paint

In this episode, Theo Padnos reads The Drunken Boat by Arthur Rimbaud. Padnos is an American writer and journalist. In 2012, he was kidnapped and held captive for two years by an Al Qaeda affiliate

In this episode, Hrishikesh Hirway reads "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats. Hirway is the creator and host of several acclaimed podcasts, including Home Cooking (with Samin Nosrat),

In this episode, Bon Apptit Editor-in-Chief Dawn Davis reads Sonnet 171 by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Davis joined Bon Apptit in November 2020 following a long career in book publishing. Through her

In this episode, Grian Chatten reads The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Chatten is the frontman of the Irish post-punk band Fontaines D.C., recently described by NME as "the new heroes of the r

In this episode, Alec Soth reads "Of Modern Poetry" by Wallace Stevens. Soth is a photographer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has published over twenty-five books and has been called a "living legend" and "one of the most important photographers w...

In this episode, Sheryl Paul reads from "Song of Myself" by Walt Whitman. Paul is a counselor working in the tradition of Jungian depth psychology. She runs the popular blog and website, Conscious Transitions, and is the author, most recently,

In this episode, Jennifer Crandall reads "Keeping Things Whole" by Mark Strand. Crandall is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She is the creator, most recently, of Whitman, Alabama a must-watc

In this episode, Robert Alter reads from his translation of the Song of Songs. Alter is a literary critic and translator based at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2018, he published a landmark, one-man translation of the entire Hebrew Bible ...

In this episode, Enrique Martnez Celaya reads Elegy for Ramn Sij by Miguel Hernndez. Martnez Celaya is a world-renowned painter, sculptor, and the author of On Art & Mindfulness, among other bo