Smoke-Part 1- November 17, 2022

The essay "Smoke" by Catherine Young is a reaction to and experience of the wildfire ash that began to cover our Midwestern skies in the fall of 2020 against the background of having frown up in the smoke of the largest coal mining valley in the world.

Friday November 4: Elizabeth Bishop

Austin shares the poetry of Nova Scotia born poet Elizabeth Bishop who won the Pullitzer Prize for Poetry in 1956. Dwight Garner argued that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century".