A daily-style almanac that pairs a poem with short biographical sketches of writers, politicians and historical figures on their birthdays. Readers get a compact dose of literary history and poetry each day.
Website: https://thewritersalmanac.substack.com
Nelson George writes about Black music, film and culture, mixing interview-based profiles, remembrances and behind-the-scenes accounts of his own projects. Readers get first-person reporting and personal context from a veteran music and culture journalist and filmmaker.
A weekly letter from Pádraig Ó Tuama, host of the Poetry Unbound podcast, connecting poetry, literature, and current events to reflective questions for readers. It also shares podcast episodes and interviews with poets and thinkers.
Personal essays and cultural criticism on philosophy, the arts and poetry, drawing on memories of record collecting, Dylan's religious turn, poems about Nazi atrocities, and pop-chart history. The writer mixes anecdote with close reading and historical research to explore what art and evil reveal about people.
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