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 the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver, Oprah magazine: https://www.oprah.com/entertainment/maria-shriver-interviews-poet-mary-oliver

Makers & Mystics podcast: Ritual Making & Performance Art with Heather Stringer https://www.makersandmystics.com/makersandmystics/2020/3/26/s7-e03-ritual-making-amp-performance-art-with-heather-stringer

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.spotify.com/track/5l7iJR7kcyVUFSq8xtTKhX?si=21c9757de6bd4877

Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1986)

Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy"

Port William & "The Membership"--fictional American rural town found in novels, short stories and some of poems of Wendell Berry.

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 Cunningham Passager Issue 75

Kathleen McClung https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-mcclung

Jane Hirshfield https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield

Kevin Fagan The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances

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 Modernism of San Diego by Rev Dr. Mark Hargreaves (2025)

The Sacred Architecture of Irving J. Gill, by Rev Dr. Mark Hargreaves, (2023)

Barry Humphries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Humphries

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

IG: @rosemerry.trommer

Blog: "A Hundred Falling Veils", To subscribe: https://ahundredfallingveils.com

Ritual: Wellbeing Practices app: "The Poetic Path"

Shel Silverstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein

E.E. Cummings https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/90442/ee-cummings-101

Ellen Bass https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bass

Robert Schumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann

Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems edited by Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R Wilson

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: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/76757/his-dark-places

Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by Josh Felstiner

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-with-me

Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield (1985)

Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (2025)

Instagram: @cityofawoman

Alabama's 13th Poet Laureate

Alabama School of Fine Arts: https://www.asfaschool.org/

Magic City Poetry Festival: https://www.magiccitypoetryfestival.org/

O, Miami Poetry Festival: https://omiami.org/poetry-festival/

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

Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness: https://www.social-connection.org/partnerships/coalition-to-end-social-isolation-loneliness/