Prayer Pod

Prayer Pod

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Prayer Pod episodes

  • Ep. 11 - Spirit

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

    Music: Tim Kim

    *Optimized for headphone listening

    9 min
  • Ep. 10 - A Common Destiny

    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.

    8 min
  • Ep. 9 - Thanks

    Poem: Thanks by W. S. Merwin

    Music: Tim Kim

    *Headphones recommended  

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

    7 min
  • Ep. 8 -Time

    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.

    6 min
  • Ep. 7 - There Are Days We Live

    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.

    8 min
  • Ep. 6 - A Refrain

    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.

    8 min
  • Ep. 5 - Fear

    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.

    8 min
  • Ep. 4 - Bread

    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.

    8 min
  • Ep.3 - Apocalypse

    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.

    9 min
  • Ep. 2 - Lament & Confession

    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.

    8 min

About Prayer Pod

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Prayer Pod takes you through a brief, guided time of prayer using poetry and the movement of music as guides. Each episode features original compositions and poems (often read by the poets themselves).