Living Poetry

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-bones-the-biography-of-eugene-peterson/

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: @sandramccracken

The Maker of the Mountain by Sandra McCracken and Tim Nicholson, illustrated by Fia Tobing (2025)

Light in the Canyon

Songs from the Valley

Psalms

On Being with Krista Tippett: John O'Donohue The Inner Landscape of Beauty

https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty/

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

Instagaram: @Narrativemag

Rise the Euphrates (1994)

Three Stages of Amazement (2012)

Vera (2022)

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: A Play in Two Acts (1998)

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.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa

Greek myth of Sisyphus: eternally pushes a boulder uphill only for it to roll back down as he reaches the top.

https://www.edwardhirsch.com/

https://www.gf.org/ John Șimon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999)

100 Poems to Break Your Heart (2021)

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 Mary Oliver:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB3obZhi8ZR/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D

Ecstasy of Saint Teresa sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa

https://www.estherperel.com/?categories=Eroticism

Ireland's Holy Wells:

https://www.irelands-hidden-gems.com/irelands-holy-wells.html

John14:6, Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life … "

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 Zbigniew Herbert

http://only-the-imagination.blogspot.com/2012/06/prayer-of-traveler-mr-cogito.html

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" by John Keats, English poet, literary style: Romanticism

Symposium A dialogue by Plato c.385-370 BC.

"O Come O Come Emmanuel" sung by Evan Cunningham, Reindeer Tribe, Feliz Navidad, 2024

https://open.spotify.com/track/3r8wseOEz5bjSjxO0En2sY?si=37ca6e077a2045ca

IG @johncunninghamclay

https://www.cunninghamclay.com

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 Guide by Jereusha Hull McCormack

Every Moment Holy, Volume II by Douglas McKelvey

As Long as You Need by J.S. Park

The Cure for Sorrow by Jan Richardson

A Grace Disguised Revised and Expanded by Jerry Sittser

The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller