Prayer Pod

Poems: Veni Creator by Czeslaw Milosz and The Summer Day by Mary Oliver

Music: Tim Kim

*Optimized for headphone listening

Poems: For the Anniversary of My Death by W.S. Merwin, Selection from Ecclesiastes 9

Music: Tim Kim

*Headphones recommended  

Prayer Pod is a guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: Thanks by W. S. Merwin

Music: Tim Kim

*Headphones recommended  

Prayer Pod is a guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: Hymn to Time by Ursula K. Le Guin

Music: Tim Kim 

*Headphones recommended  

Ursula K. Le Guin was an award winning writer of science fiction and poetry. She lived a remarkable life, and you can learn about her here or all over the internet.

Prayer Pod is a guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee

Music: Tim Kim

*Headphones recommended  

Li-Young Lee is an award winning poet and the author of such collections as The City in Which I Love You and The Winged Seed: A Remembrance. For more about his life and work, check out the Poetry Foundation.

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: Thank You Jesus by Teri Ellen Cross Davis 

Music: Tim Kim & Jonathan Neidorf 

*Headphones recommended  

Find more of Teri’s work at www.poetsandparents.com. Twitter: @cross_davis

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: What I Carried by Maggie Smith 

Music: Patrick Derdall 

*Headphones recommended  

"What I Carried" from Good Bones, Tupelo Press, copyright 2017 Maggie Smith. Used with permission.

Maggie Smith is the author of four books, most recently Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017) and the forthcoming Keep Moving: Notes on Loss, Creativity, and Change (One Signal/Simon & Schuster, 2020). Her poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times, Tin House, Poetry, The Believer, The New Yorker, the Washington Post, and the Paris Review. A freelance writer and editor, Smith is on the poetry faculty of Spalding University’s MFA program and serves as an Editor at Large for the Kenyon Review. 

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: Bread by Richard Levine 

Music: Tim Kim 

Find more of Richard Levine's work on his website. 

*Headphones recommended 

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi 

Music: Tim Kim 

Franny Choi audio used with permission from the Poetry Foundation. 

*Headphones recommended 

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.

Poem: Untitled by James Baldwin, A Memory by Saeed Jones 

Music: Tim Kim 

*Headphones recommended! (this episode in particular will sound weird without them) 

As our country reckons with its deeply embedded history of racism and violence, this episode reflects on lament and confession. 

Prayer Pod is a short, guided prayer session of meditative practice, poetry, and music.