Living Poetry

Get ready for Season 3 of Living Poetry! I'm back with more incredible guests with powerful poetry for thought provoking and consoling conversations. You'll be challenged and encouraged. I'm so excited to share these conversations with you.

Edward Hirsch - The Everyday Episode 28 Edward Hirsch reads "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe (1997) at 9:33 https://youtu.be/VWabOtq10UI?si=8bz-f7gRimUEOOKj 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, Edward Hirsch (2021) Listen to: Living Poetry Episode 17 Poetry as Memorial   - Edward Hirsch "I Am!", John Clare (1865) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43948/i-am Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible Sonnets:...

Ashley M. Jones - The Point of Art Episode 27 "Lullaby for the Grieving", Ashley M. Jones, From You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, 2024), edited by Ada Limón read at 14:07 Lullaby for the Grieving,  2025 Reparations, Now!, 2021 https://ashleymjonespoetry.com/ "Won't You Celebrate With Me" by Lucille Clifton: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50974/wont-you-celebrate...

Joan Shearer - Hope While Despairing  Episode 26 This episode contains material of a sensitive nature that may be triggering for some individuals. "The Forest" by Nikita Gill read at 11:50 and 13:01 Instagram: @nikita_gill Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma: https://youtu.be/nmJOuTAk09g?feature=shared  

Lee Herrick -   The Art of Memory Episode 25 "This Room and Everything in It", Li-Young Lee,  The City in Which I Love You (1990) read at 13:27 In Praise of Late Wonder (2024) Scar and Flower (2019) leeherrick.com California's 10th Poet Laureate Fresno City College: https://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/ Li Young Lee Reading "This Room and Everything In It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAeCqCAwpo...

Joshua Stamper with Kory Stamper - A Larger World Episode 24 "Sonnet IV, Part 1", Sonnets to Orpheus read at 9:51 and 36:04 "Sonnet IV, Part 1",  Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke, (translated By M.D. Herter Norton)   (1962) https://www.joshuastamper.com/ Instagram: @joshuastampermusic

Kory Stamper with Joshua Stamper - How to Be Alive  Episode 23 "Sabbath Poem VI" read at 11:18 and 35:14 "Sabbath Poem VI", Wendell Berry,  This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (2014) Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (2017) History of Swear Words , Netflix series (2021) Instagram: @harmless_drudge

Luci Shaw- Available to Surprises Episode 22 "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

Winn Collier - What is Real Episode 21 "A Brief for the Defense" Jack Gilbert read at 10:30 https://poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brief-for-the-defense https://winncollier.com Instagram: @winncollier Substack: winncollier.substack.com A Burning in My Bones The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson (2022) The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination https://petersoncenter.org/a-burning-in-my-...

Sandra McCracken - Bless the Space Episode 20 "A Morning Offering", John O'Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us Read at 15:56 "The Space Between", Sandra McCracken, Cindy Morgan, Gabe Dixon from Christmas Spotify link : https://open.spotify.com/track/1AbUIe7rsWEscPcKKqNhYm?si=AZN8de5LRA2PBz5PV7MvYQ&nd=1&dlsi=8210ae6ded90403b Lyrics read at 23:00 https://www.sandramccracken.com/ Instagram: @s...

Carol Edgarian - Character & Contradiction Episode 19 " He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven " by William Butler Yeats read at: 12:42 Rise the Euphrates excerpt read at: 14:55 Vera excerpt read at: 26:58 https://www.caroledgarian.com/ Instagram: @c.edgarian, A Word, Please! February 24, 2025: "Giornata": Italian>  days work March 10, 2025: "Gar Oo Chugar": Armenian> There was and there was not Insta...

Lisa Sharon Harper - Face the Wind Episode 18 Show Notes:  Beyoncé, "AMERIICAN REQUIEM, Cowboy Carter (2024) Lyrics read at 13:32 "AMERIICAN REQUIEM" Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6K2Iut8nSQigP83yvbiqi8?si=b9111b62b53145e0 https://lisasharonharper.com/ Instagram: @lisasharonharper @freedomroad.us Freedom Road podcast Fortune (2022) The Very Good Gospel (2016) An' Push Da Wind Down:...

Edward Hirsch - Poetry as Memorial  Episode 17 "Cotton Candy" read at 9:15 "Cotton Candy", The Living Fire (2010) https://poets.org/poem/cotton-candy Excerpts from "Gabriel" p.13, read at 25:38 (Issa, The world of dew) p.73, read at 31:56 ( The work of mourning ) Gabriel: A Poem (2014) https://www.edwardhirsch.com/gabriel-a-poem-2/ Kobayashi Issa, Japanese poet 1763-1828 https://www.poetryfoundati...

Season 2 of Living Poetry is on the way! We had so much fun during Season 1 where my guests brought favorite poems, song lyrics, and passages as a portal into conversations about what moves them in this life and what it means to them and to us to be more human. We're back for more starting April 8! 

Living Poetry Show Notes: Episode 16 Slow Down with Mary Ellen Owen "You wake the dead to life" by Rumi Poem read at 12:42 "Gold" by Haleh Liza Gafori, New York Review of Books, 2022 Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Dec. 12, 2022 https://onbeing.org/programs/rumi-you-wake-the-dead-to-life/   https://theallendercenter.org/about/team/mary-ellen-owen/ Helena Bonham Carter reads "Wild Geese" by Ma...

Living Poetry Show Notes: Episode 15 Study Beauty with John Cunningham "The Power of Taste" by Zbigniew Herbert https://allpoetry.com/poem/14330389-The-Power-Of-Taste-by-Zbigniew-Herbert Poem read at 15:23 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Miłosz "My Back Pages" by Bob Dylan: https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-back-pages/ "The Prayer of the Traveler Mr. Cogito" by Z...

Hidden in Plain Sight by Becky Allender "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" lyrics by Pete Seeger, 1962 Lyrics at 10:55 "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" from Songbird by Eva Cassidy, 1998 "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Pete Seeger, 1955   https://theallendercenter.org/offerings/trainings https://theallendercenter.org/marriage

No Map for Grief with Vicki Gilliam Just Be Held song by Casting Crowns https://open.spotify.com/track/5t35FJYwzRt9MG3ae2O41L?si=qE9TI16rTV25J9ol1oNjkg&nd=1&dlsi=50aba2c1faa54e45 Serge|Grace at the Fray https://give.serge.org/s/donate/a1eRb000000nRGZIA2/51263-worker Some Books for Care in Grief: Notes on Grief by Chimamanda by Ngozi Adichie Daring to Breathe by Armen Bacon Grieving A Beginners Gui...

Hear Music with Denise Gentilini Anguish as a Second Language by Denise Gentilini Lyric read at 14:43 Anguish as a Second Language https://www.denisegentilini.com https://www.youtube.com/dgentilini   A Road Less Traveled: The Handjian Story by Denise Gentilini   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hckg0XIpQQg&list=OLAK5uy_kRjlYDdv3sp7M4u6dk_6sbPlOe3rLCUFY&index=2   I AM ALIVE - a new musical IG:@denis...

Riding Out at Evening by Linda McCarriston, Talking Soft Dutch , Texas Tech University Press. Thank you to Linda McCarriston and Texas Tech University Press for kind permission and encouragement.   Riding Out at Evening read at 18:30   https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=140&issue=3&page=33   The Beatitudes: Jesus taught a series of blessings in the Sermon on the Mount in...

"Warning" and "Sphere" from  Full Circle: New and Selected Poems by Mitsuye Yamada , 2019 "Warning" read at 25:25 "Sphere" read at 34:52 Used with kind permission from the poet.   Paper Crane Coaching

Bone by Mary Oliver poem read at 16:20   Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, Boston   God has planned good things in advance for us.   Ephesians 2:10   IG: @storied.living @lorakelleymusic https://www.storiedliving.org https://www.lorakelley.com Spotify: Lora Kelley https://theallendercenter.org

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo https://www.joyharjo.com/ charlottedonlon.com Spiritual Direction for Writers https://www.spiritualdirectionforwriters.com/ Charlotte's podcasts: https://charlottedonlon.com/podcasts IG @charlottedonlon, @spiritualdirectionforwriters, @ belongingthroughart Glen workshop in Seattle https://imagejournal.org/2024-the-glen-workshop The Great Belonging: How Lone...

Featured Poetry & Resources: Rachael Clinton Chen The Sacrament of Letting Go by Macrina Wiederkehr Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections , Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B. Harper One (1991) The Allender Center Podcast Inside Out 2 (2024) dir. Kelsey Mann

Featured Poetry & Resources: Pole Dance by Nita Andrews Frederic Eugene Basil Foley, MD (1891-1966) American Urologist The Clearing by Martha Postlethwaite I Wish in the City of Your Heart by Robley Wilson The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama The Lanyard by Billy Collins Dog Songs by Mary Oliver Denise Levertov, British-born naturalized American poet William Carlos Williams, American poet & physic...