From 1997 until 2005 I taught at-risk youth at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Red Wing. An edited version of this essay appeared in Parabola, a magazine of myth and meaning, in its 2003 Summer issue.

 The Minnesota Men's Singing Group met with Robert Bly for almost 25 years. In 2007 I put together a small chapbook of my versions of Sufi poems for the group. This episode is the second of two recordings of those poems.

 The Minnesota Men's Singing Group met and sang with Robert Bly for almost 25 years. In 2007 I put together a small chapbook of my versions of Sufi poems for the group. This episode is the first of two recordings of those poems.

Poets and essayists, Timothy Young and Thomas R. Smith talk about Poetry as an examination of Life in many different ways.  The conversation took place in September 2014 at the Minnesota Men's Conference at Camp DuNord near Ely, Minnesota. Music from Dalyce Elliott's Blue Azalea.