"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

#Spooktober 22: The Spectre Barber

Today’s reading on my Patreon is “The Spectre Barber” by Johann Karl August Musäus translated and collected by Helen Smith in The Decameron of the West (1839).
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Marianne Moore’s Real Toads

Marianne Moore was an American modernist poet, critic, editor, and translator known for her wit and formal experimentation. She was born in Missouri in 1887, studied at Bryn Mawr College, and became one of the major voices of 20th-century American poetry. Selected Poems is one

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August 16, 2026 6:00 am
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Classic Stories of the Sea

A charming collection of tales on the sea in various forms, curated by Harrier Sanders, all delightful if a bit too heterogeneous for my taste. You go feom tales of sailors (“The Captain’s Arm”, “Hornblower and the Widow McCool”) to tales in which the sea

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August 15, 2026 9:00 am
Summertime

Ten Windows

Jane Hirshfield is an American poet, essayist, and translator, widely admired for work that bridges lyric poetry, meditation, ecology, and philosophy. She’s also known as a lucid critic of poetry and has written influential essays on how poems work and why they matter. Ten Windows:

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