Poems and songs about Hanukkah, Christmas and New Year are what we're  bringing you this week, as well as other views of light in darkness.   And check out the bonus video, "Stille Nacht," here: https://youtu.be/Ug2VvH6-PO8 

The pieces this week are:

 Winter Nights – Thomas Campian (Seventeenth Century English Poetry, Oxford University Press 1992) 

Burning a Light at Night – Kiyoko Nagase (Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry, New Japanese Horizons) 

The Coming Of Light – Mark Strand (PoemHunter.com) 

Season of Skinny Candles – Marge Piercy (PoemHunter.com) 

There’s a Certain Slant of Light (320) – Emily Dickinson (poetryfoundation.org) 

Enjoy the Light – Adrian Mitchell (Come On Everybody, Bloodaxe 2012) 

White Christmas – Irving Berlin (genius.com, first performed 1942 by Bing Crosby) 

Dorothy Wordsworth’s Christmas Birthday – Carol Ann Duffy (The Wordsworth Trust, 2014) 

Ode to Enchanted Light – Pablo Neruda (silverbirchpress.wordpress.com) 

A Prayer to the New Year – Fudwa Turqan (Desert Songs of the Night Saqi Books 2015) 

Better Things – Leanne Moden (Liaisons, StewedRhubarb.org, 2015) 

Christmas in Hollis – Run DMC (1987)