Date: March 10, 2011
"Richards’s sharpness is surprising coming from a guy whose mind, everyone had to assume, was by now a salvage heap."
preview | full record— Chiasson, Dan
Date: April 4, 2011
"Theodicy-god has evolved now to both substance and not. / With handy metaphysical blades to slice brain meat from mind."
preview | full record— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)
Date: April 4, 2011
"For in mind should be voidy wings choiring, not selves."
preview | full record— Williams, C. K. (b. 1936)
Date: April 18, 2011
"And so it goes, researchers say, with most study sessions: difficulty builds mental muscle, while ease often builds only confidence."
preview | full record— Carey, Benedict (b. 1960)
Date: April 24, 2011
"Imagination is branched, flowering, / and each fans the buds himself."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: April 24, 2011
"It's all song, all singing, the body's seat / and number, the mind's pleats, time's hem."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: April 24, 2011
"God seeks a destiny in all things fired / in the kiln of the sun or the mind."
preview | full record— Lee, Li-Young (b .1957)
Date: May 23, 2011
"Learning isn’t about downloading a certain quantity of information into your brain, as the proponents of online instruction seem to think."
preview | full record— Deresiewicz, William (b. 1964)
Date: May 21, 2011
"My thoughts turn into the cowbirds wandering among the horses’ hooves."
preview | full record— Klinkenbourg, Verlyn (b. 1952)
Date: June, 2011
"No part of you is broken. / No bruises and no disease / and no neurological torpor / filling you up like a cold season."
preview | full record— Guest, Paul