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This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. In 2020, Kwame Alexander was feeling the weight of being Black in America and didn't know how to make sense of his feelings. So, he made sense of them through his book ...  Show more

This week, we're celebrating National Poetry Month by revisiting some of our favorite conversations with poets. When Raymond Antrobus was 6 years old, he learned he was deaf. His memoir The Quiet Ear describes living in a world of in-betweenness, straddling intersections of race, ...  Show more

You don’t need Halloween to justify reading scary books, any more than you need sand to justify reading a beach novel. But the holiday does give editors here a handy excuse to talk about some of their favorite spooky reads. On this week’s episode, the host Gilbert Cruz talks w ...

In this horror story, artist Svetlana Telets paints a piece of art called "The Woman of the Rain" that creates a sense of uneasiness to onlookers. Once the painting was purchased, the woman in the painting began to haunt the owners. And then another painting, The Hands Resist Him ...  Show more

In this episode, I talk about my intense and emotional experience of reading Marilynne Robinson's 1980 debut novel, "Housekeeping." The book tells the story of Ruthie and Lucille, two young girls haunted by loss--by the death of their grandfather, the suicide of their mother, and ...  Show more

In this episode of Scary Stories Told in the Dark, we bring you five terrifying tales from authors C.L. McLendon, Derek Hawke, R.D. Smithey, NateJay82, and Jeffrey Ebright, performed by host and narrator Otis Jiry, about unexpected storms, grisly gifts, perilous presents, sickeni ...  Show more