The Heart Path Podcast

In this episode of The Heart Path Podcast, we learn about Professor and Photographer, Donald S. Clark, and his adventure in photographing places across the US that have inspired historic and contemporary nature writers John Muir, Rachel Carson, Phillip Connors, Terry Tempest Williams, Barry Lopez, Pam Houston and more.  After fifteen years of planning and several years of photography, camping, and...

When a pipeline project threatened residents of rural Massachusetts, Dr. Lis McLoughlin partnered with a local land trust and fought to protect her community. She not only succeeded in this endeavor, she established NatureCulture® and the Writing the Land® Project in collaboration with poets in an effort to financially support land trusts and protect lands across the US.  Bio: Dr. Lis McLoughlin i...

In this episode, we follow Navajo roads to academia, switch paths from engineering to writing, and change the cadence of running to the peddle of mountain biking, as we process grief through words and story mapping.  Byron F. Aspaas is Diné. He is Táchii’nii, born for Tódich’iinii, and raised within the four sacred mountains of Dinétah, Byron received his BFA and MFA from the Institute of American...

What happens when we take action toward a better future? We could end up sending ripples of "buoyant hope" and "positive interference" into the world. In this episode of The Heart Path Podcast, we talk with Eco Poet, Biologist, and Nature Writing Facilitator, Erin Robertson, about land partnerships, climate change, fire, and the resiliency of humanity when faced with the unknow...

In this episode, we explore imagery rooted in memory with Frontexto artist, poet, publisher, and instructor, Octavio Quintanilla.  Octavio Quintanilla is the 2025 Texas Poet Laureate and the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which was longlisted for the National Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The...

In this episode of The Heart Path Podcast, we expand our minds, hearts, and rekindle creative spark with Poet and Author of Moonscape for a Child , Allie Rigby.   Allie Rigby is a poet with roots in the chaparral of Southern California. Moonscape for a Child is her debut poetry collection (Bored Wolves, 2024). Writing honors include a Fulbright Fellowship, a William Dickey Fellowship, and contribu...

In this episode, we shed layers of self and society to embrace joy and wholeness in nature with author and wilderness guide, Larry Glover.  Larry Glover is the author of Wild Joy: Ecospiritual Encounters with Nature as Teacher, Healer, and Lover ; winner of two Gold Medals in the 2025 Global Book Awards. He aspires to discover what being human truly is, particularly in a paradoxical world woven of...

In this episode, we cartwheel through life with Poet, Starr Paul, while we celebrate the one-year anniversary of her organization, Black Hills Writers Collective, and listen to her newest poems inspired by her pregnancy with Baby V.  Starr Paul is a Black Hills based poet from Spearfish, South Dakota. Starr serves as the Founder and Co-director of The Black Hills Writers Collective, Host of the Ar...

In this episode, we follow Derek Sheffield's travels through poetry, editing, and publishing and celebrate our connection with all living beings--both human and non-human.  Guest bio: Derek Sheffield is the 8th poet laureate of Washington State (2025-2027). His books include Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry , winner of a 2024 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award, Not for Luck , selec...

In this episode, we celebrate Cheryl Slover-Linett's first published poetry collection, The Seduction of the Daughter in Fifteen Pieces , while we follow the muse, trust in the path, allow for vulnerability, value the healing process of writing, and learn more about Cheryl's wilderness retreat business, Lead Feather .  If you are interested in joining Cheryl for one of her upcoming onlin...

In this episode we follow bird migrations from Alaska to South Carolina, admire sunsets with strangers, and make stops along the way for raven and moose on a journey to Yosemite and Denali National Park and Preserve with J. Drew Lanham.  Guest Bio: A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature , which recei...

In this episode, we listen to the story of writers, Kimberly and Joshua Williams--from how they met to how they create together as a couple. We also hear about Kimberly's memoir, "Haunted Bodies, Haunted Hearts," the practice of seasonal writing, red clay people, passed down recipes, and how family and land shape who we are today.  Support the show

In this episode, we hear about Amy Irvine's new book, Almost Animal, and learn how we can expose roots of generational trauma to build a foundation of joyful resistance.  Support the show

In this episode, we embark on a journey through words, rutted roads, writing workshops, and Idaho backcountry with author and teacher, CMarie Fuhrman. As we travel over uneven and rocky terrain, we learn how to trust in the unknown and continue moving forward until we find the magic.  Support the show

In this episode, we reflect on our connection with nature, honor reciprocal relations with all living beings, and trade out fear and darkness for an "ocean of light and love" with Author and Botanist, Susan J. Tweit.  Support the show

In this episode, we embark on a journey through wonder on and off the page with Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer. As we navigate through hardship and grief, we find infinite possibilities in the power of adjusting our minds and hearts to allow our paths to unfold.  Support the show

"No matter where we are, the natural world is all around us."  In this episode, we follow Deb Matlock's journey through Wild Rhythms and discover how we can strengthen our connection to our wild selves and the more than human world.  Support the show

In this episode, we discuss the Rights of Nature Movement and how poetry, art, and action can be wielded as tools of resistance to protect what we love.  Support the show

This week's episode leads us through beginner's mind, hollow bone, the long view, and practical poetry, as we journey through joy with Poet Laureate and Visual Artist, Wendy Videlock.  Support the show

In this episode, we share ideas of how we can write a new story and paint a different picture of this world by envisioning change and acting toward solutions. Support the show