POETRY IN EDEN with Felicia A. Iyamu

"Each person chooses her or his life purposes, before she or he is even born." - Sobonfu Some

Essenam Enaku's work centers around empowering women to find and lean into their purpose. She also supports through the process of grief including grief circles. This episode explores her journey.

Colette Lafia is an award-winning writer, retreat leader, and spiritual director/companion living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area.

She has spent decades guiding individuals into deeper contemplative practice through workshops, retreats, and one-on-one spiritual direction.

A former school librarian and regular presenter for Spiritual Directors International, she brings a rare blend of poetic sensibility, contemplative depth, and accessible warmth to her work. This conversation explores her mind, her life, and her work.

Her new book is Leaving the Shore: Experiencing Poetry as Prayer (Monkfish Book Publishing, 2025). Learn more at colettelafia.com.

Christopher Angle has published many books. You can discover them here: https://www.amazon.com/Books-Christopher-Angle/s?rh=n%3A283155%2Cp_27%3AChristopher%2BAngle

This discussion explores the thesis that peace equals free market enterprise. It is an interesting discussion. Enjoy!

From climate change to deep-sea diving to water goddesses and gods, and water's healing properties, this episode explores the ocean and how we must look to it for answers because it holds them all.

“she’s awake.” my latest substack post was a letter from my subway platform awakening in NYC.

https://open.substack.com/pub/feliciaiyamu/p/in-a-new-york-minute-part-ii?r=233rbq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

thank you for taking the journey with me. i’ll never forget you. i love you. just remember, the frequency is the light and the light is the frequency. but it’s always been darkness all around.

Between who you were and who you're becoming lies a threshold most people never talk about: integration.

It's the sacred, often uncomfortable space where the old self dissolves and something new takes shape. Not a shortcut. Not a hack. A process as old as humanity itself, available to all of us, if we're willing to let it unfold.

Aaron Poochigian is a poet, classics scholar, and translator who lives and writes in New York City. His work has appeared in such newspapers and journals as The Financial Times, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry Magazine. He's the author of Four Walks in Central Park: A Poetic Guide to the Park, and his translations include Stung with Love (Penguin UK). His new translation is Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations. Learn more at aaronpoochigian.com

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.
“Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world.” ―Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress

If I could fly backward, I would.

To the safety of branches, to the time

when my heart still raced for you,

twelve hundred beats a minute.
In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond.

Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paper Palace, a Reese’s Book Club Pick, comes a debut poetry collection that paints a moving portrait of a rich life from childhood to love to marriage to motherhood to divorce and beyond.
“Breathtaking . . . will change the way you see the world.” ―Daisy Goodwin, author of The American Heiress

In poetry that is at once bold and lyrical, affecting and devastatingly frank, Miranda Cowley Heller takes us through childhood, marriage, motherhood, and beyond.

Suffused with the natural world and the landscape of Cape Cod, where many of the poems are set, What the Deep Water Knows contemplates love in all the seasons.

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didn’t you know? the earth, the bird, him, and me, we are all one. it’s something i’ve always believed, and i enjoy being reminded. there’s one timeline that separates one of us from the other. we are in a sacred dance with one another.

before we had social media or the internet, we had a social brain. anthropologist robin dunbar, with social brain theory, found that our brains actually grew larger specifically to handle the complexity of staying connected to a tribe of about 150 people.

the fact is, we aren’t “individuals” who occasionally interact; we are neurons in a larger social nervous system.

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