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
Date: July 30, 2011
"I didn’t know what I wanted to be when I was 10, but I think that having all those books and sentences composting in my brain may have pushed me toward becoming a writer in the long run."
preview | full record— Meloy, Maile (born January 1, 1972)
Date: April 25, 2011
"If Eagleman's body bears no marks of his childhood accident, his mind has been deeply imprinted by it."
preview | full record— Bilger, Burkhard