Living Poetry

Wonder & Pain | Gigi McMurray "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12744/trees Poem read at: 4:48 Gigi McMurray:  https://mcmurrayclinic.com/ IG: @gigimc www.gigimuses.com Betty Franks: https://www.bettyfranksart.com/ Allender Center Narrative Focused Trauma Care Training: https://theallendercenter.org/about/nftc/ Awe by Dacher Keltner, 2024 Invitation to T...

This Capacious Life - Ellen Bass Episode 50 "Thanks" by W.S. Merwin Poem read at 14:41 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/thanks "Any Common Desolation" by Ellen Bass Poem read at 24:28 https://poets.org/poem/any-common-desolation IG: @poetellenbass https://www.ellenbass.com/ Living Room Craft Talks, The 7th Series with Ellen Bass https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks-...

The Holiness of Showing Up - Matthias Roberts Episode 49 "Atheist Out of Necessity" by Jay Hulme Poem read throughout The Backwater Sermons Poems by Jay Hulme IG: @matthiasroberts www.matthiasroberts.com podcast: @queerologypod Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts Holy Run Aways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion by Matthias Roberts Frind...

After the Fire: Just BE - Jen Argue Episode 48 "Put Your Records On" By Corinne Bailey Rae https://open.spotify.com/track/2nGFzvICaeEWjIrBrL2RAx?si=5bb3000214b04bad Lyrics read throughout Online Life & Business Coach Jen Argue IG: @life_coaching_collective www.lifecoachingcollective.com Bread for the Journey by Henri Nouwen, "Friends and their Limitations" (May 1) "Three Little Birds" song by Bob...

The Rule of Law - Homer Moyer Episode 47 "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem excerpt recited at 12:35   https://www.millerchevalier.com/professional/homer-e-moyer CEELI Institute: https://ceeliinstitute.org/     (Central and East European Law Initiative founded in 2000 by Homer E Moyer) The Hidden Jewel of Stockbridge by Homer E Moyer Jr.

Love is the Best Motivator - Hallie Waugh Episode   46 "Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop Poem read at: 14:05 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52193/filling-station Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (2011) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop "Old Dogs" by Hallie Waugh Poem read at: 26:27 OKC Metro Library Poet Laureate https://halliewaugh.com/evere Substack: https://halliewaug...

Hope Does Not Dominate - Elisabeth Cunningham Episode 45 "Hope" by Emily Jane Brontë https://allpoetry.com/poem/8438205-Hope-by-Emily-Jane-Bront%C3%AB Poem read at 5:31 "'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314 Poem read at 6:40 Elaine Scarry, "to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that anothe...

Karen Wright Marsh | Web of Questions Episode 44 "A Gift" by Denise Levertov https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/L/LevertovDeni/AGift/index.html poem read at 12:33 https://onbeing.org/blog/the-gift-of-good-questions/ Vintage Saints and Sinner s by Karen Wright Marsh (2017) Wake Up to Wonder by Karen Wright Marsh (2023) Wait, What? and Life's Other Essential Questions  by James E. Ryan (2017) Th...

Scott Gibson | 2:00 a.m.   Episode 43 "The Well of Grief" by David Whyte https://allpoetry.com/poem/15379848-The-well-of-grief-by-David-Whyte poem read at 18:03 Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw Scott Gibson: https://scottlcsw.com https://theallendercenter.org/about/team/ Men's Recovery Week: https://theallendercenter.org/offerings/workshops/mens-recovery-week/

Kelsey Colón-Schwenk | Oh Good, It's Bad Bunny! Episode 42 "Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawáii" by Bad Bunny https://open.spotify.com/track/1Hg0e997pObvZ91w1FCPFk?si=c1b94d0ce8134abd translated lyrics read at 16:40 Super Bowl LX Halftime Show 2026 Kelsey Colón-Schwenk: https://theseattleschool.edu/faculty-staff/directory/ https://www.kelseyandnate.com/ IG: @kelseylcolon      

Lane Cowin | Eyes Wide Open Episode 41 [you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151653/you-fit-into-me read at 15:00 and 20:39 "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken (1977) Lane Cowin: Redeemer Anglican Church https://redeemerrva.org/team

"The Old Barns of Skagit County" (2025) read at 05:45 "Pleasures" (2025) read at 19:25 "Anticipation" (2020) read at 33:38 https://lucishaw.com/ An Incremental Life  (2025) Reversing Entropy  (2024) The Generosity  (2020) https://renovare.org/podcast/luci-shaw-madeleine-lengle

Carla Funk | Gifts of Boredom Episode 40 "The Book of Knowledge" by Patrick Lane read at 17:20 Patrick Lane https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patrick-lane "Fumbling Towards the Star" by Carla Funk read at 25:25 Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk (2021) https://www.carlafunk.com/ IG @carla_funk Attention Restoration Theory  (ART) (Kaplan, 1989, 1995) suggests that men...

Corey Widmer | Be Still & Know I am Lost Episode 39 "Lost" David Wagoner poem read at 10:18 Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems (1999) Corey leads a brief Centering Prayer Practice Psalm 46: "Be still and know I am God." begins at 31:21 Corey Widmer: https://www.thirdrva.org/leadership-staff-directory/corey-widmer Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating (2009)...

Evan Cunningham | Laughing Over the Bass Solo Episode 38 "1960" by Billy Collins The Rain in Portugal: Poems by Billy Collins, 2016 poem read at 15:00 "Favorite Poet" by Evan Cunningham read at 26:10 "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/introduction-to-poetry The Apple that Astonished Paris by Billy Collins , 1988. The Legendary BILL EVANS TRIO 196...

Gail Worsham Pitt | Let Doves Come Episode 37 "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon, Otherwise, 1996 poem read at 6:36 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46431/let-evening-come Dovehouse Ministries, Nashville, TN   dovehouseministries.com First We Were Loved by Gail Worsham Pitt, 2017 Pray as You Go: https://prayasyougo.org/

Pádraig Ó Tuama | In the Laboratory of God Episode 36 "Emerging" by RS Thomas read at:08:21 "Do You Believe in God?" by Padraig Ó Tuama read at: 21:13 Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama (2025) RS Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40toY38ZSc "Via Negativa" Ted Hughes, " Crow"   (1970) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ted-hughes TS Eliot "Four Quartets"   https://poets.org/poet/t-s-eliot T...

Vanessa Sadler | Kendrick Lamar: Dollars & Change Episode 35 contains explicit language and mature lyrical content Kendrick Lamar "How Much a Dollar Cost" from  To Pimp a Butterfly https://open.spotify.com/search/how%20much%20a%20dollar%20cost Lyrics read throughout Vanessa Sadler: Abiding Story: https://www.abidinginstory.com/ IG: @vksadler The Allender Center podcast: Healing with Spiritual Dire...

Scott Sawyer | Chaotic Incidents & Detained Immigrants Episode 34 The House that Love Built by Sarah Jackson with Scott Sawyer, 2020 excerpt read at 18:12 Chuck Prophet, "It's a Good Day to Be Alive ", from Wake the Dead, 2024 lyrics read at 26:25 "I Want Everything" Susan Haroutunian Cunningham poem read at 32:50 Earthly Fathers, A Memoir   by Scott Sawyer, 2001 SJS Communications

Heather Stringer | A Healing Hum Episode 33 This episode contains material of a sensitive nature. "Hum, Hum" by Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems , 2013 poem read at 16:36 Life in Ritual https://www.lifeinritual.com/ IG: @life_in_ritual The Allender Center Blog:  https://theallendercenter.org/author/hstringer/ Peter Levine,  Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma , (1997) Maria Shriver Interviews...

Logan Baker | How to Kill Community Episode 32 "How do you create community?" by Tad Hargrave Tad Hargrave Substack: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/p/how-do-you-create-community-a-poem Poem read at: 12:11 Logan Baker: https://blueridgewilderness.com/who-we-are/our-team/logan-baker-lpc IG: @blueridgewilderness David Wilcox, "We Make the Way by Walking", The View from the Edge (2018) https://open....

Elise Kazanjian | More is Less Episode 31 Naomi Shiab Nye https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye Poem read at: 17:18 No More More More More by Elise Kazanjian Read at: 18:13 Persimmon Tree Online Journal https://persimmontree.org/spring-2025/the-poetry-of-naomi-shihab-nye/ "Gate A-4" Naomi Shihab Nye https://poets.org/poem/gate-4 "Musical Chairs and a Wide Swing" Susan Haroutunian...

Mark Hargreaves | Drag Queens & Being Seen Episode 30 contains some explicit language and mature lyrical content Flamy Grant "Esther, Ruth and Rahab" Composer, Lyricist: Matthew Blake Lovegood https://open.spotify.com/album/6vmert3QxJdgHPl2PSJoEb?flow_ctx=2762f36f-e708-48d6-b6bf-268c929aa24f:1759204849#login Lyrics read at: 17:38 https://www.flamygrant.com/ https://sjbts.org/ The Distinct Modernis...

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer | | Tell Me Something True Episode 29 "The Thing Is" Ellen Bass https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151844/the-thing-is "A Letter Sent Back in Time to Schumann"   Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/06/29/a-letter-sent-back-in-time-to-schumann/ "The Thing Is" read at 12:49 "A Letter Sent Back in Time" read at 23:09 https://www.wordwoman.com...