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In this special holiday edition of the Women's Sanctuary Podcast, host Arlia Hoffman guides listeners into a sacred guided practice through poetry. She guides the listener through multiple poems from various authors such as Emily Jane, Deborah Anne Quibell, Hafiz, Rumi, and Maya Angelou. These selections are intended to inspire love, compassion, and a reconnection to one's wildest nature. The episode concludes with John O'Donohue's Christmas Blessing, leaving listeners with heartfelt wishes for grace, mercy, and patience. Poems: Breaking up with Rushing, by Emily Jane Let Silence Nestle In, by Deborah Anne Quibell, from Soul Bird Now is the Time, by Hafiz The Ocean Surge & Love Dogs, by Rumi from Rumi, The Book of Love Remembering Our Billions & Rainmaker, You Could Be the Water, by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, from Untie the Strong Woman Succulent Wild Woman, by SARK Happiness, by Jane Kenyon, from Claiming the Spirit Within A Christmas Blessing, by John O'Donohue Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What is grief and how might our faith speak to our experiences of loss? We are joined by sad boy Rev. Gregory Stark and guest co-host Rev. Ethan Lowery to talk about life, death, poetry, Eucharist, hamburgers, and grief. The Rev. Gregory Stark is a current PhD student in theology at the University of Cambridge, where he is researching the theology of grief and mourning in the art and activism around HIV/AIDS in the 1980s. He serves as the assistant chaplain at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He previously was coordinator for ministry with children and youth in the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe while he completed his research masters in theology at KU Leuven in Belgium. Substack: https://gregorystark.substack.com “Otherwise” by Jane Kenyon - https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/otherwise/ “Snowdrops” by Louise Glück - https://hellopoetry.com/poem/20568/snowdrops/ Like what you hear?We'd love your support on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/AndAlsoWithYouPodcastThere's all kinds of perks including un-aired live episodes, Zoom retreats, and mailbag episodes for our Patreons!Keep up with us on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/andalsowithyoupodcast/ More about Father Lizzie:PRE-ORDER HER BOOK: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/762683/god-didnt-make-us-to-hate-us-by-rev-lizzie-mcmanus-dail/ (if you like this episode in particular? You're really, really going to love this book!)https://www.instagram.com/rev.lizzie/https://www.tiktok.com/@rev.lizzieJubilee Episcopal Church in Austin, TX - JubileeATX.org More about Mother Laura:https://www.instagram.com/laura.peaches/https://www.tiktok.com/@mother_peachesSt. Paul's Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh, PA Theme music:"On Our Own Again" by Blue Dot Sessions (www.sessions.blue). New episodes drop Mondays at 7am EST/6am CST!
Today's poem is The Clearing by Jane Kenyon. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Dogs have a lot to teach us. Learning to care about the land and people is to live daily in the fullness of existence, such that we come to cherish and love those close to us and beyond.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp
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Jane Kenyon (1947–1995), former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, was the author of four volumes of poetry. Her collected poems were published by Graywolf Press in 2007. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Amanda Holmes reads Jane Kenyon's “The Sick Wife.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I think that this is one of the most important episodes that I've ever published on Outspoken Beauty and if you have a daughter/niece/teenage girl in your life then you need to hear it.My guest is Jane Kenyon who is the founder of an utterly brilliant charity called Girls Out Loud. Jane has been working with teenage girls for over 20 years and her charity enables women in industry to become "big sisters" and mentor them through some of the trickiest years of school.Jane's insight into the current chellenges that girls are facing is deep and makes for scary listening. Social media, porn, self doubt and poor body image are only some of the problems that our teenagers are facing. Whilst many women are having positive and empowering conversations, it would seem like the opposite is happening for the younger generations.During the episode we talk about what is happening and how we might be able to make change and whilst this conversation doesn't make for easy listening, I know that it has the power to inspire change and action and we have the power to come together and make this happen.
“All of these formidable women, it's amazing”To mark International Women's Day 2024, Lisa Morton is asking some of Greater Manchester's most inspiring role models what they are both celebrating and campaigning for in 2024. In this special episode of We Built This City, Lisa explores what's changing for women across boardrooms, classrooms, changing rooms and dancefloors.You'll hear from Jane Kenyon, founder of Girls Out Loud, Radio 1's Victoria Jane, Zalena Vandrewala, chair of Women of the Year awards, Yvonne Harrison, CEO of Women In Football and Natasha Davies, Senior Marketing Manager for fine dining group, D&D London, who made it onto Northern Power Women's Future List for 2024. Find out what they are proud of, what they're still fighting for - and which Greater Mancunian women inspire them to keep pushing for change.Girls Out Loud have an upcoming fundraising ball on 19th April find out more information here.------Your host, Lisa Morton, started PR company Roland Dransfield in 1996, one month after the fateful IRA bomb that tore apart the city centre. From that point, the business, and its team members, have been involved in helping to support the creation of Modern Manchester – across regeneration, business, charity, leisure and hospitality, sport and culture.To celebrate the 26 years that Roland Dransfield has spent creating these bonds, Lisa is gathering together some of her Greater Mancunian ‘family' and will be exploring how they have created their own purposeful relationships with the best place in the world.Connect with Lisa and Roland Dransfield: Via our websiteOn InstagramOn X FKA Twitter
Kenyon published four volumes of poetry during her life: From Room to Room (1978), The Boat of Quiet Hours (1986), Let Evening Come (1990), and Constance (1993), and, as translator, Twenty Poems of Anna Akmatova (1985). Despite her relatively small output, her poetry was highly lauded by critics throughout her lifetime. As fellow poet Carol Muske remarked in the New York Times when describing Kenyon's The Boat of Quiet Hours, “These poems surprise beauty at every turn and capture truth at its familiar New England slant. Here, in Keats's terms, is a capable poet.” Indeed, Kenyon's work has often been compared with that of English Romantic poet John Keats; in an essay on Kenyon for Contemporary Women Poets, Gary Roberts dubbed her a “Keatsian poet” and noted that, “like Keats, she attempts to redeem morbidity with a peculiar kind of gusto, one which seeks a quiet annihilation of self-identity through identification with benign things.”The cycles of nature held special significance for Kenyon, who returned to them again and again, both in her variations on Keats's ode “To Autumn,” and in other pastoral verse. In Let Evening Come [from which today's poem comes], her third published collection—and one that found the poet taking what Poetry essayist Paul Breslin called “a darker turn”—Kenyon explored nature's cycles in other ways: the fall of light from day to dusk to night, and the cycles of relationships with family and friends throughout a long span of years brought to a close by death. Let Evening Come “shows [Kenyon] at the height of her powers,” according to Muske in a review of the 1990 volume for the New York Times Book Review, with the poet's “descriptive skills… as notable as her dramatic ones. Her rendering of natural settings, in lines of well-judged rhythm and simple syntax, contribute to the [volume's] memorableness.”-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Jane Kenyon is a Speaker, entrepreneur, visionary, author, female champion, and Founder at Girls Out Loud. Girls Out Loud is a social enterprise on a mission to raise the aspirations of young girls from the age of 12 - 18.What is GirlsOutLoudWhy do we need to think about the lives of teenage girls ? What is the Big Sister ProgrammeHow can we as recruiters help young peopleWhat about teenage boysConnect with Jane here -https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-kenyon-5970046/-----------The Recruiter's Recruitment Podcast is proudly sponsored by Paiger and partners to Needi and Inclusion Crowd.Our Sponsor: Paiger - Making Recruiters Smarter and Faster. Paiger helps recruiters build personal brands, identify new business opportunities, attract candidates, and have better conversations.Find out more details on Paiger here - https://paiger.co/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=recruiters-recruiterOur Partners: Needi is a concierge gift-matching service using psychology and AI, to pinpoint the perfect gifts and experiences for your recipient, from the best, local independent businesses. Their team of expert gift finders, save companies time and money, with their complimentary corporate gifting service . Find out more here -https://needi.co.uk/Inclusion Crowd works with organisations to create a credible and authentic DEI programme, they help clients attract & retain talent - as well as improve culture & engagement. Their vision is to make organisations reflective of the societies in which they operate. Find out more here https://inclusioncrowd.biz/Watch the episode here -https://youtu.be/NhFNY46qDm0This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy
The prophet Isaiah writes poetry: to express deep love between God and God's beloveds, to convey heartache, to cleverly and poignantly pierce through word play, to evoke hope and catalyze action, to faithfully proclaim the truest nature of God. If poetry is good enough for Isaiah, pastor Megan suggests, it might just be good enough for us. We hear of sacred love, heartbreak, longing, and conviction from poets Jane Kenyon, Naomi Shihab Nye, Marwan Makhoul, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Lucille Clifton. Come along for the ride!sermon begins at minute marker 4:41 Isaiah 5.1-7; 11.1-5ResourcesBibleWorm podcast: Episode 510– The Song of the Vineyard and the Stump of Jesse, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.Jane Kenyon, “Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks,” Collected Poems, 2005.Naomi Shihab Nye, “Kindness,” Words Under the Words: Selected Poems, 1995.Maxine Hong Kingston, The Fifth Book of Peace, 2003.Lucille Clifton, "spring song," The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1987.After sharing this sermon in poetry, someone in the congregation reminded me of this gorgeous and piercing musical rendition of Isaiah's poetry, by the inimitable Sinead O'Connor, may she rest in peace: “If You Had a Vineyard” Image: Marwan Makhoul, trans. Zeina Hashem Beck, via Gaza Poets Society, https://www.instagram.com/p/CO3URKVgw7M/Hymn: Hymn: VT 161 I Sought The Lord. Text: Holy Songs, Carols, and Sacred Ballads (USA), 1880 Music: J. Harold Moyer (USA), 1965, The Mennonite Hymnal, © 1969 Faith & Life Press/Mennonite Publishing House (admin. MennoMedia) Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929 and #57595. All rights reserved.
1. In her sermon about poet Jane Kenyon, Christina taught that, early on, Kenyon learned poetry wasn't afraid of emotion. Although she'd grown up in a family that resisted giving one's self over to anything completely, Kenyon did, through her life, give her self completely to both the ministry of her art, and also to the work of telling the truth of emotion through it.How do you hear and receive these ideas? What does it mean to give one's self over to something completely? In your view, is that something to be resisted, or embraced? When or in what settings? Explain your answer.What about emotion? Where in your life do you have space to engage with the truth of emotion? Of your emotions? In your own life & view, what is the role of your emotions? The emotions of others?2. As Kenyon lived with bipolar disorder, cancer, and other challenges, she asked the question, “is God trustworthy when I don't understand what he's doing?”What's your initial reaction to this question? How resonant is it for you? Is this a question you feel like you're actively asking in your life today, or have asked in the past? What are some of processes and ideas you've engaged with as you've asked your own versions of this question or as you consider it now?3. Christina led us through a spiritual practice, very similar to lectio divina, with one of Jane Kenyon's poems.What was this experience like for you? How comfortable was it for you to listen to the poem and then take time in silence to listen within for more? Do you have experience with this type of spiritual exercise? If so, share about its value for you. If not, share about whether or not you might like to participate in this process again. Then share about why.
The queens play "Just Jane!" featuring a jackpot of J. Kenyon and J. Mead poems. James just can't jank a jackdaw but refuses to be jaded.Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books: Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series. James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.Kenyon published four volumes of poetry during her life: From Room to Room (1978), The Boat of Quiet Hours (1986), Let Evening Come (1990), and Constance (1993), and, as translator, Twenty Poems of Anna Akmatova (1985). A fifth book, Otherwise: New and Selected Poems, appeared in 1996.Jane Mead was the author of five collections of poetry: The Lord and the General Din of the World (1996), The House of Poured-Out Waters (2001), The Usable Field (2008), Money Money Money Water Water Water (2014), World of Made and Unmade (2016), and To the Wren: Collected and New Poems (2019).Here are the Kenyon poems we discuss:Having It Out with MelancholyPrivate BeachClimbThe ShirtOtherwiseYou can listen to Jane Kenyon read "Otherwise" here.Here are the Kenyon poems we discuss:The Argument Against UsThe MemoryIn the Parking Lot at the Junior College on the Eve of a Presidential ElectionPassing a Truck Full of Chickens at Night on Highway EightyIf you need a refresher on Brenda Hillman's "Male Nipples"Read Amy Thatcher's poem "Road Kill" in SWWIM.
Lords: * Cort * https://a.co/d/iRrEZcy * Elena Topics: * My due date is literally tomorrow * Dogme 95 for web development * Visits from the neighborhood cats * Potato, by Jane Kenyon * https://poets.org/poem/potato-0 * Cooperative board games are hard to design * Space themed coop trick-taking card game: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/284083/crew-quest-planet-nine * Building a conlang generator from the phonology up * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonorityhierarchy * Linear algebra cursed conlang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze5ie_ryTk Microtopics: * The Be Real App. * Posting your mortifying skin condition for all the internet to see. * Being born. * The Dance Dance Revolution song "20,November," by Earth Wind and Fire. * PiCoSteveMo. * Tossing around hastily drawn concept art with your team. * Being born, again. * Having a kid for someone else. * Eating cigarettes off of the sidewalk. * A grab bag of thousands of possible pregnancy symptoms. * Literacy as a symptom of pregnancy. * A visceral reminder that you are part of a long chain of humans. * Which came first, humans or birth? * The comfort of the humans who are still around having individual experiences even after you die. * Tips n Tricks for dealing with fear of death. * Inviting dead people onto the show. * Asking for more pro-death art so you can feel better about death. * Pro-life, in the literal sense. * Flowers and mushrooms growing up through the bones. * Returning to the universe to nurture it. * Dumb Ways to Die. * Sum: 40 Tales from the Afterlives. * Thought experiments about something weird that could happen. * The Egg by Andy Weir. * Covering birth and death in the same topic. * Looking at photos of yourself from five years ago and thinking "oh shit!" * I am choosing to no longer have conscious experience, mom. You wouldn't understand, mom. * Swedish with a mouthful of potatoes. * Dogme 95. * Enpoopification. * A protocol for exchanging information on a computer. * Rewinding to a kinder, simpler web. * Avoiding all this gestures at the world * New rule: no web servers more powerful than a Raspberry Pi. * The cool thing that was on the web in the mid-90s. * Making art and putting it on the internet and getting a fan base. * The teenage gamer comic series making a comic about prostate exams. * Sharding the internet. * El Goonish Shive. * Anime hammers that you do when someone is being a pervert. * Coming to personal revelations regarding your neurodivergence or gender situation. * How to be a successful artist. * Not knowing if your favorite webcomic had ads because you use an adblocker. * Working at your parents animation studio as an inbetweener. * Merging your cats into one cat. * Neighborhood coyotes. * Cats beyond the reach of fear. * Window-peering Jim: he's just checking out your remodel. * Putting a GoPro on your neighbor's cat and livestreaming the inside of their house. * Cats with amazing life stories that they'll never tell you. * The consort of coffee grounds. * Making shepherd's pie for an entire hamlet. * A possibly accidental double line break. * A line break corresponding to a conceptual boundary. * The Story of Mel: a Real Programmer. * Adding left angle brackets to the start of every line until word wrap makes it a poem. * Blackout poetry. * Pumping gas as an element of Cottagecore. * A hamlet is just a city in New Jersey. * The fireworks on your forehead game. * A game where everyone stops talking. * The Yelling Game. * A dedicated period of yelling. * Space-themed trick taking games. * The Spaceteam card game. * Coming up with a set of place names that sound like they're from the same culture. * Assigning syllable groups to a morpheme. * Asking Claude. * Interpolating the obvious things. * The Sonority Hierarchy. * A gradient from less vowel-like to more vowel-like. * Cursed Conlangs. * Generating syllables and mushing them together.
Jane Kenyon (May 23, 1947 – April 22, 1995) was an American poet and translator. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems.—Bio via Wikipedia Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Why is late summer such a gut-puncher? If anyone can get at the heart of this mystery, it's these two: "Summer Has Two Beginnings" by Emily Dickinson "Three Songs at the End of Summer" by Jane Kenyon
Late summer is peak bye-bye season! These three poems fit perfectly in your suitcase or moving box. "The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away From the Curb" by Sharon Olds "Leaving Town" by Jane Kenyon [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by ee cummings
Today's poem comes from American poet Jane Kenyon, who would have been seventy-five today had she not died in 1995 at the age of forty-seven. Her work is often characterized as simple, spare, and emotionally resonant. Kenyon was the second wife of poet, editor, and critic Donald Hall who made her the subject of many of his poems. Bio via Wikipedia. Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe
Today's poem is Taking Down the Tree by Jane Kenyon. This episode was originally released on December 8, 2021.
La poeta, editora, traductora y novelista Pilar Adón publica "De bestias y aves" (Galaxia Gutenberg), una novela sobre una mujer que huye y que es acogida, o secuestrada, por una comunidad de mujeres que viven aisladas en medio de una naturaleza que no es idílica, sino claustrofóbica y amenazante. Como libróloga receta libros para gestionar la ansiedad ("La ciudad solitaria", Olivia Laing, o "Expuesta", Olivia Sudjic), recomienda a un gran clásico contemporáneo gallego ("Viento herido", de Carlos Casares), novelas que te centran ("El mar, el mar" o "Henry Cato" de Iris Murdoch) , libros que destilan ternura ("Inocencia", de Penelope Fitzgerald, "H de halcón", de Helen McDonald, o cualquier cosa de Jon Fosse) y tres poemarios para pasar el invierno: "Ararat", de Louise Glück, "Bosques, etc", de Alice Oswald, y "De otra manera", de Jane Kenyon.
La poeta, editora, traductora y novelista Pilar Adón publica "De bestias y aves" (Galaxia Gutenberg), una novela sobre una mujer que huye y que es acogida, o secuestrada, por una comunidad de mujeres que viven aisladas en medio de una naturaleza que no es idílica, sino claustrofóbica y amenazante. Como libróloga receta libros para gestionar la ansiedad ("La ciudad solitaria", Olivia Laing, o "Expuesta", Olivia Sudjic), recomienda a un gran clásico contemporáneo gallego ("Viento herido", de Carlos Casares), novelas que te centran ("El mar, el mar" o "Henry Cato" de Iris Murdoch) , libros que destilan ternura ("Inocencia", de Penelope Fitzgerald, "H de halcón", de Helen McDonald, o cualquier cosa de Jon Fosse) y tres poemarios para pasar el invierno: "Ararat", de Louise Glück, "Bosques, etc", de Alice Oswald, y "De otra manera", de Jane Kenyon.
La poeta, editora, traductora y novelista Pilar Adón publica "De bestias y aves" (Galaxia Gutenberg), una novela sobre una mujer que huye y que es acogida, o secuestrada, por una comunidad de mujeres que viven aisladas en medio de una naturaleza que no es idílica, sino claustrofóbica y amenazante. Como libróloga receta libros para gestionar la ansiedad ("La ciudad solitaria", Olivia Laing, o "Expuesta", Olivia Sudjic), recomienda a un gran clásico contemporáneo gallego ("Viento herido", de Carlos Casares), novelas que te centran ("El mar, el mar" o "Henry Cato" de Iris Murdoch) , libros que destilan ternura ("Inocencia", de Penelope Fitzgerald, "H de halcón", de Helen McDonald, o cualquier cosa de Jon Fosse) y tres poemarios para pasar el invierno: "Ararat", de Louise Glück, "Bosques, etc", de Alice Oswald, y "De otra manera", de Jane Kenyon.
Hot goss about Victorian poet(s) Michael Field precedes a conversation about the deep loss of animals, and the intimacy, friendship, and love we share with them.Please consider supporting the poets we mention in today's show! If you need a good indie bookstore, we recommend Loyalty Bookstores, a DC-area Black-owned bookshop.We reference a scene from the show Yellowstone where Beth tells her son Carter the universal truths of getting money. You can watch that clip here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=118&v=a68StSECIGI&feature=emb_logoRead more criticism and biography about Michael Field here.Read more poems by Michael Field here. Links to poems we read during this episode include:Jane Kenyon's "Biscuit"Paisley Rekdal's "Once" Bruce Weigl's "May"We'll add to this list of other poems about the love we give to and receive from animals here. Suggest some on our social media.Carl Phillips: "Something to Believe In"Marie Howe: "Buddy"Mark Doty: "Golden Retrievals"Victoria Redel: "The Pact"Mary Oliver: "Little Dog's Rhapsody in the Night" (see Oliver read it here).Kevin Young: "Bereavement"Nomi Stone: "Waiting for Happiness"Robert Duncan: "A Little Language"Pattiann Rogers, "Finding the Cat in a Spring Field at Midnight"William Matthews, "Loyal"Christopher Smart, "from Jubilate Agno (for I will consider my cat Joffrey...)"The Humane Society suggests a few coping strategies for dealing with the loss of a loved pet:Acknowledge your grief and give yourself permission to express it.Don't hesitate to reach out to others who can lend a sympathetic ear. Do a little research online and you'll find hundreds of resources and support groups that may be helpful to you.Write about your feelings, either in a journal or a poem, essay, or short story.Call your veterinarian or local humane society to see whether they offer a pet-loss support group or hotline, or can refer you to one.Prepare a memorial for your pet.
Alexis Sears's first book, Out of Order, won the the 2021 Donald Justice Poetry Prize and was just published by Autumn House Press. Alexis received her BA in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and her M.F.A. in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has been widely published, including in Rattle's Poets Respond last month with her "Heartbreak Ghazal." She was a scholar at the Sewanee Writers' Conference in 2019. Currently, she teaches 9th grade English in Oakland, California. Find more at: https://www.alexissears.com/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt (from Katie Bickham): Take any abstraction like sorrow, envy, loneliness, desire, homesickness, hope, etc. and make that your title. Then the body of the poem is simply a description of that abstraction using ONLY concrete images and stories. Three great examples are Anne Sexton's "Courage," Stephen Dunn's "Tenderness," and Jane Kenyon's "Happiness." Next Week's Prompt: Write a canzone that confesses something. The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Katie Bickham's second book of poetry, Mouths Open to Name Her, is now available from LSU Press. It was selected by former Louisiana Poet Laureate Ava Leavell-Haymon as part of the Barataria Poetry Series. Her debut collection, The Belle Mar (Pleiades 2015), won the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize. Katie is the recipient of The New Millenium Poetry Prize, The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize from Pleaides Press, The Missouri Review Editor's Prize, and Rattle's Reader's Choice Award for "The Blades." Katie teaches creative writing at Bossier Parish Community College in Bossier City, Louisiana. Find more at: http://www.katiebickham.net/ As always, we'll also include live open lines for responses to our weekly prompt or any other poems you'd like to share. A Zoom link will be provided in the chat window during the show before that segment begins. For links to all the past episodes, visit: https://www.rattle.com/rattlecast/ This Week's Prompt (from Mark Gibbons): Write a poem titled, “If This Were a _______ Poem” (insert some known artist or character: Charlie Chaplin, Madonna, Jackson Pollack, Miles Davis, Isadora Duncan, Prince, Hemingway, etc.), as in Mark Gibbons' “If This Were a Sam Shepard Poem.” Next Week's Prompt (from Katie Bickham): Take any abstraction like sorrow, envy, loneliness, desire, homesickness, hope, etc. and make that your title. Then the body of the poem is simply a description of that abstraction using ONLY concrete images and stories. Three great examples are Anne Sexton's "Courage," Stephen Dunn's "Tenderness," and Jane Kenyon's "Happiness." The Rattlecast livestreams on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then becomes an audio podcast. Find it on iTunes, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Work, girl! And we give love to our power bottom brethren.Read Emily Dickinson's Poem 260. You can listen to it read by Yina Liang, courtesy of the Favorite Poem Project here (~5 min). Read (or listen) to Richard Blanco's poem "We're Not Going to Malta" here. Watch Larry Levis read with Phil Levine (~76 minutes; Levis is first). Aaron is right, Levis has a lovely, crisp, deep man-voice.Read Jane Kenyon's "Having it Out with Melancholy" here. Hear her read "Otherwise" here (video is of her and Donald Hall, walking with their dog). There's an incredible musical response to Jane Kenyon's "Having it Out with Melancholy" that I could not recommend more. Watch/listen here. Composed by Jonathan McNair and performed by The Unheard-of//Ensemble (~22 minutes). Otherwise is Kenyon's New and Selected Poems. The Collected Poems assembles Kenyon's four previous volumes, plus her posthumous volumes, her translations of Anna Akhmatova, and then four poems never before published in book form. The book Aaron mentions is A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, The Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem.Read Nazim Hikmet's poem "On Living" here.Auden did write a blowjob poem, apparently known by several different titles: "A Day for a Lay," aka “The Platonic Blow, by Miss Oral,” aka “The Gobble Poem,” and you can read about it here.James's favorite Steve Orlen poem is "In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas," which you can read online here.
Do the inscrutable troubles of the future add to your pleasure now? These two poems were on my mind as I revived from the stupor of illness. "True Love" by Sharon Olds "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon
Dogs Are Smarter Than People: Writing Life, Marriage and Motivation
There is an article over on Medium that annoyed Carrie, which to be fair, Medium articles by self-professed self-help gurus often do. Cough. It's not because the guy has 250,000 followers, she swears. It's just because he's a bro-looking white guy regurgitating other people's stuff. And here's the thing. To make impact, you don't want to vomit up other people's books or thoughts. You want to be your own person. In New Hampshire literary circles of the 1970s and 1980s there was a dynamic poetry husband and wife duo of Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon. They were nothing alike in their poetry and Donald usually received a lot more kudos, but Jane? She made her moments. I'll always remember my Aunt Maxine introducing me to Jane when I was eight or something and saying, "She is a spectacular poet." She pretty much gasped it all out because she was so enthralled. I always wanted to be gasp worthy, honestly--in a good way, right? So, there's a piece in the National Book Review by Mike Pride that talks a bit about Jane (who died at just 47) where it talks about how her husband dealt with people being stupid about the difference between their poems and styles. "Hall reacted when anyone suggested that he was a poet of big ideas while his wife wrote sweet and simple poems. “Yeah,” he'd say, “her style is a glass of water – a 100-proof glass of water.” There is a tendency for us all to look away from the moments, the truths of our lives and existence and instead go for those superlative, larger than life moments, stories, celebrities, all that b.s. But here's the thing-- even Captain America has to go poo. Even bigger-than-life people whose stories are cultivated for our consumption also have those smaller moments. It's not about the 250,000 followers. It's about you making each moment, each interaction count. And sometimes to do that you have to look and see how those moments have happened to you before. Have you ever had a moment where your understanding of the world changed? An epiphany? When was the last time you felt at the top of your game? When was the last time you tried something new? When was the last time you risked your reputation for your beliefs? A lot of those moments have big emotions with them, right? And sometimes we get scared of those big emotions and when that happens? We can't take risks because we're afraid of the emotions and change that might come with those risks. Even when that change is positive, it's something different, something new and that can be super scary for a lot of us. But you've got to keep trying and dreaming and learning and being brave in order for cool things to happen. How do you do this? Think about what you really really want to happen in your life?Make sure that this is something that you morally feel cool about. Don't want to be an assassin if you're against killing.Make sure what you want feels like it gives you purpose.Put in the time. Decisions don't mean crap if you don't actually put the action steps and time into that choice. Authors make our characters all the time. It isn't enough for Captain America to go save the world. He has to take a super serum, learn how to fight and throw a shield, locate the bad guy. That goes for us, too. Jane Kenyon wrote in “Afternoon at MacDowell,” when Donald Hall had cancer (she was the actual one to die of it first), After music and poetry we walk to the car. I believe in the miracles of art, but what prodigy will keep you safe beside me, fumbling with the radio while you drive to find late innings of a Red Sox game? A poet becomes a poet by investing the time to see the things in life, the moments and twists and epiphanies and connections, that the rest of us not always see, but more than that. They take the moment and let it resonate. That's what we all need to do. We need to become the poets of our lives, making our moments by choice and action. LINKS WE REFER TO IN OUR RANDOM THOUGHTS https://shepherdexpress.com/puzzles/news-of-the-weird/news-of-the-weird-week-of-feb-3-2022/ SHOUT OUT! The music we've clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here's a link to that and the artist's website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It's “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free. AND we are transitioning to a new writer podcast called WRITE BETTER NOW! You'll be able to check it out here starting in 2022! We have a podcast, LOVING THE STRANGE, which we stream live on Carrie's Facebook and Twitter and LinkedIn on Fridays. Her Facebook and Twitter handles are all carriejonesbooks or carriejonesbook. Carrie is reading one of her poems every week on CARRIE DOES POEMS. And there you go! Whew! That's a lot! Here's the link. Write Better Now - Writing Tips podcast for authors and writers loving the strange the podcast about embracing the weird Carrie Does Poems
There is an article over on Medium that annoyed Carrie, which to be fair, Medium articles by self-professed self-help gurus often do. Cough. It's not because the guy has 250,000 followers, she swears. It's just because he's a bro-looking white guy regurgitating other people's stuff. And here's the thing. To make impact, you don't want to vomit up other people's books or thoughts. You want to be your own person. In New Hampshire literary circles of the 1970s and 1980s there was a dynamic poetry husband and wife duo of Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon. They were nothing alike in their poetry and Donald usually received a lot more kudos, but Jane? She made her moments. I'll always remember my Aunt Maxine introducing me to Jane when I was eight or something and saying, “She is a spectacular poet.” She pretty much gasped it all out because she was so enthralled. I always wanted to be gasp worthy, honestly–in a good way, right? So, there's a piece in the National Book Review by Mike Pride that talks a bit about Jane (who died at just 47) where it talks about how her husband dealt with people being stupid about the difference between their poems and styles. “Hall reacted when anyone suggested that he was a poet of big ideas while his wife wrote sweet and simple poems. “Yeah,” he'd say, “her style is a glass of water – a 100-proof glass of water.” There is a tendency for us all to look away from the moments, the truths of our lives and existence and instead go for those superlative, larger than life moments, stories, celebrities, all that b.s. But here's the thing– even Captain America has to go poo. Even bigger-than-life people whose stories are cultivated for our consumption also have those smaller moments. It's not about the 250,000 followers. It's about you making each moment, each interaction count. And sometimes to do that you have to look and see how those moments have happened to you before. Have you ever had a moment where your understanding of the world changed? An epiphany? When was the last time you felt at the top of your game? When was the last time you tried something new? When was the last time you risked your reputation for your beliefs? A lot of those moments have big emotions with them, right? And sometimes we get scared of those big emotions and when that happens? We can't take risks because we're afraid of the emotions and change that might come with those risks. Even when that change is positive, it's something different, something new and that can be super scary for a lot of us. But you've got to keep trying and dreaming and learning and being brave in order for cool things to happen. How do you do this? Think about what you really really want to happen in your life? Make sure that this is something that you morally feel cool about. Don't want to be an assassin if you're against killing. Make sure what you want feels like it gives you purpose. Put in the time. Decisions don't mean crap if you don't actually put the action steps and time into that choice. Authors make our characters all the time. It isn't enough for Captain America to go save the world. He has to take a super serum, learn how to fight and throw a shield, locate the bad guy. That goes for us, too. SHOUT OUT! The music we've clipped and shortened in this podcast is awesome and is made available through the Creative Commons License. Here's a link to that and the artist's website. Who is this artist and what is this song? It's “Summer Spliff” by Broke For Free. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/carriejonesbooks/support
Today's poem is Taking Down the Tree by Jane Kenyon.
Today's poem is Taking Down the Tree by Jane Kenyon.
06 December 2021: Comedian, host and author Steve Harvey shares some advice on how to navigate the online dating world. New UAE Labour Laws: Lawyer Ludmila Yamalova explains some of the big changes to be enacted next year, including ones concerning time off and end-of-service pay. Meet the author: Mariana Missakian tells Helen how she went from #bosslady to "That Suburbia Lady" Reading with your children: Author and writing coach Allison Williams shares her list of books that you and your kids will love. Mentorship coach Jane Kenyon says our teenage girls need to be empowered through the guidance of amazing mentors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A story. With thanks to ford. for allowing me to use his beautiful track Dusk as the outro here. Also to Lauren Bacall, Andre Prévin & Dinah Shore. Show notes Mary Karr's Tropic of Squalor and her poem The Voice of God The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon selected by Donald Hall Sleerickets Ep 30 … Continue reading "Ep 154. The big sleep"
A story. With thanks to ford. for allowing me to use his beautiful track Dusk as the outro here. Also to Lauren Bacall, Andre Prévin & Dinah Shore. Show notes Mary Karr's Tropic of Squalor and her poem The Voice of God The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon selected by Donald Hall Sleerickets Ep 30 … Continue reading "Ep 154. The big sleep"
This episode includes a poem about preferring pencils to pens, a poem about two people who never meet, and a poem about writing a poem. There's nothing too small or obscure to be pondered in poetry... and in the jeweler's glass of the poem small things aren't so small after all. "The Pencil" by AE Stallings https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/03/pencil/513860/ "On The Way to Work" by Stephen Dunn https://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php%3Fdate=2004%252F06%252F24.html "Who" by Jane Kenyon
It's as simple as it sounds. I read three small but substantial poems by Jane Kenyon.
Biscuit By Jane Kenyon
This week we take a closer look at another autumn poem, this one by Jane Kenyon from her wonderful book Otherwise: New and Selected Poems. Kenyon builds from and transforms the same tradition of the autumn ode we examined last week with John Keats. Thank you to Graywolf Press for permission to read this poem from Otherwise: New and Selected Poems (https://www.graywolfpress.org/books/otherwise) by Jane Kenyon. Click here for the full text of Twilight: After Haying (https://poets.org/poem/twilight-after-haying). See the Poetry Foundation for more on Jane Kenyon (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-kenyon).
Dutch Interiors By Jane Kenyon
Welcome to The Endow Podcast! This podcast is a forum for women to foster conversations about the intellectual life and intentional community for the cultivation of the feminine genius. On this episode, Simone Rizkallah, Director of Program Growth, interviews Margaret Perry on the importance of poetry (and wine!) and how to read it.Margaret Perry is a sales manager for a Virginia based, sustainability focused Fine Wine importer and distributor. Prior to that she managed a Michelin rated restaurant in Washington, DC. Before her time in the Hospitality Industry, she worked in higher education nonprofits, studied literature and philosophy, and wrote about children's literature for magazines such as First Things and St. Austin Review. Born and raised in Northern California, she has lived in Virginia for 13 years, making her basically a native. In her free time, she reads an absurd number of British Mysteries, gardens, and hikes the Shenandoah.Thanks for listening!Wendell Berry's poem: "To My Mother" https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36853Other recommended poets & poems:Mary Syzbit: "Annunciation (From the Grass Beneath Them)”Joy Harjo: "The World Ends Here"Mary Oliver: "Coming to God: First Days"Scott Cairns: "Possible Answers to Prayer"Jane Kenyon: "Let Evening Come"Support the Endow PodcastWhat's on your mind and heart? Let us know by connecting with The Endow Team on social media!Facebook at www.facebook.com/endowgroupsInstagram at www.instagram.com/endowgroupsWant to start your own Endow Group? Learn more by visiting our website at www.endowgroups.org or reach out to us at info@endowgroups.org. We look forward to serving you!
My readings of two poems, each, by poets Jane Kenyon and Donald Hall --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/4-cents-a-podcast/support
In this final bonus episode of How to Proceed, Linn Ullmann talks about how the idea for this podcast started, and her thoughts one year later. Emmanuel Carrere's final question to the readers, "Are you happy? And do you think it is important to be happy?", made Ullmann think of one of her favorite poems, Having it Out with Melancholy by Jane Kenyon. Together with the other interviewers this season, she gives you a reading of this poem, as a final tribute to our wonderful listeners, to the silent pandemics in our lives, the melancholy that sometimes fills our hopes and floating moments, but also the hope and solitude, the glimpses of happiness and comfort, the beating heart of the bird.“Having It Out with Melancholy” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Jane Kenyon. Used with the permission of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Today marks the birth of poet Jane Kenyon (1974). She said, “Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life.”
Mary Fran Soulis is in her later 70s, the oldest daughter of 7 siblings, and my oldest auntie or uncle on the McCloskey side. She has striven to live well with a love of the written word, a love for light, and practice of gratitude. Enjoy some great advice from one who has been many places, and read LOTS of poetry. She also practices what she is sharing. I loved this conversation, and I hope you enjoy it, share it, and subscribe to the podcast. References from the podcast and Auntie Mary Fran's show notes: 1) Kim Langley, Send My Roots Rain: A Companion on the Grief Journey This includes the poem "Otherwise" by Jane Kenyon. It includes many other beautiful poems. 2) Mary Oliver, Why I Wake Early, with the poem of the same name. That poem can also be found in Devotions, a self-selected series of Oliver's own poems. I will include the poem at the end of this message. 3) Hafiz (as translated by Daniel Ladinsky), I Heard God Laughing: Poems of Hope and Joy The poem I referred to in this is My Brilliant Image. I will also include that at the end. 4)Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet. "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms or like books written in a very foreign tongue... The point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." 5) James Baldwin, Unknown Source, "It is necessary while in darkness to know that somewhere there is light, that in oneself, waiting to be found, there is light." Connect with more Man in Many Roles Content: Email: manyroles@icloud.com Website: https://manyroles.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/maninmanyroles IG: https://instagram.com/maninmanyroles Support/donate: anchor.fm/maninmanyroles --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maninmanyroles/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/maninmanyroles/support
Featuring the poetry of Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/4-cents-a-podcast/support
With our focus on Re-Imagining and Experimentation this January, we want to know how different artists approach and set their creative pursuits in motion, and deal with their inner critic along the way. We speak with Danielle Krysa, Sandrine Pellisier, Thompson Brennan, Jane Kenyon, and Shawn Hunt to ask them about their processes for dealing with self-doubt and their inner critic, and their steps to get started with the next project or experimentations with something entirely new.
An expert for the past twenty years in the womwn and teenage girls' personal development area enabling women and teenage gris to find their voice, harness their gumption, and step up and shine.
For the past twenty years, Jane Kenyon is a world recognized authority on teenage girls' emotional and spiritual development. Her timeless advice enables women and teenage gris to find their voice, harness their gumption, and step up and shine. She has received countless awards and recognition globally. Her own personal story of success and failures is an epoch example of how to overcome adverstiy and achieve enlightenment and self-empoerment.
This pilot episode includes stories of how "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon has been passed around like a gift in my life and how the poem derives its simplicity and rootedness from material nouns that have been in our language from the very beginning. Collected Poems of Jane Kenyon
Includes Neruda, “The Seeker” and Jane Kenyon's “Evening Sun” and two by Ken Hada: “The Bridge” & “Looking Up”
Today we salute the English orphan girl who wrote her own destiny with science fiction writing. We also remember the English gardener who is still ghosting us after many decades. We revisit a letter from Elizabeth Lawrence to her sister Ann. We'll celebrate National Potato Day with some Potato Poems. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a gorgeous book about Dahlias. And then we'll wrap things up with the birthday of a beloved American creator of light verse. But first, let's catch up on some Greetings from Gardeners around the world and today's curated news. Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart Gardener Greetings To participate in the Gardener Greetings segment, send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org And, to listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to play The Daily Gardener Podcast. It's that easy. Curated News Behind the Winning Design: Q&A with Michael Drolet | FlowerMag Here's an excerpt: “When Michael Drolet submitted his vibrant vision for a Paris apartment for the Virtual Design Challenge, “we were all immediately impressed and drawn to his colorful and technically accurate proposal,” said Cass Key, creative director at Woodbridge Furniture, one of the contest sponsors along with Taylor King and KingsHaven. “He set the stage beautifully and let the story unfold like a professional, and the true plot twist came when we realized that he was a student, looking to start his career in the fall. He pushed the boundaries by using a Taylor King fabric as a wall covering and imagining the outdoor space, which is exactly the type of inventive creativity that should be rewarded today and always, said Key." Wallcovering: Taylor King's 'Secret Garden Passion' floral textile Today is National Potato Day. Here are some fun Potato facts: The average American eats approximately 126 pounds of spuds each year. And, up until the 18th century, the French believed potatoes caused leprosy. To combat the belief, the agronomist Antoine Auguste Parmentier single-handedly changed the French perception of the Potato. How did Antoine get the French people to believe that the Potato was safe to eat? Good question. Antoine cleverly posted guards around his potato fields during the day and put the word out that he didn't want people stealing them. Then, he purposefully left them unguarded at night. As he suspected, people did what he thought they would do; steal the potatoes by the sackful by the light of the moon. Soon, they started eating them. And Marie Antoinette wore potato blossoms in her hair. The Idaho Potato, or the Russet Burbank, was developed by none other than Luther Burbank in 1871. Today is also World Photography Day! So, head out to your garden and take some photos. Alright, that's it for today's gardening news. Now, if you'd like to check out my curated news articles and blog posts for yourself, you're in luck, because I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. There's no need to take notes or search for links - the next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group. Important Events 1807 Today is the birthday of Jane Webb, who married the prolific writer of all things gardening: John Claudius Loudon. Together they became magnificent partners in the world of botanical writing and publishing. Jane was an extraordinary person. She was a fantastic writer in her own right, but she also possessed an inner determination; she was a survivor. When her father lost the family fortune and died penniless when Jane was only seventeen, it was the beginning of her career writing Science Fiction. Along with Mary Shelley, Jane was an early pioneer in science fiction writing. It's hard to believe, but this endeavor would set her on her life's path to garden writing. Jane's book The Mummy was published anonymously, in 1827, in three parts. In her writing, Jane incorporated predictable changes in technology and society. For instance, she predicted that women of the future would wear pants. And, Jane also featured something agricultural that she imagined would come to pass: a steam plow. Jane's vision of easier and less laborious farming is what attracted the attention of John Claudius Loudon - her future husband. Loudon wrote a favorable review of her book, but he also wanted to meet the author. Loudon didn't realize Jane had written the book using a nom de plume of Henry Colburn. Much to Loudon's delight, Henry was Jane; they fell in love and married a year later. If you enjoy Victorian illustrations, you'll positively swoon for the frontispiece of Jane's 1843 publication Gardening for ladies: with a calendar of operations and directions for every month in the year. It shows a mother and her young child standing on either side of a lush arbor, and they are both holding garden tools. Jane's garden books were very popular. She connected with her fans because she was always earnest and genuine. Jane wasn't raised as a gardener. She learned it as an adult. When it came to gardening, Jane was a conscious competent - and it made her an excellent gardening teacher. Jane was aware of this when she wrote, “I think books intended for professional gardeners, are seldom suitable to the wants of amateurs. It is so very difficult for a person who has been acquainted with a subject all his life, to imagine the state of ignorance in which a person is who knows nothing of it…Thus, though it might, at first sight, appear presumptuous in me to attempt to teach an art of which for three-fourths of my life I was perfectly ignorant, it is, in fact, that very circumstance which is one of my chief qualifications for the task.” Today, people often forget that Jane was not only a wife but a caretaker. John's arms stopped working as he grew older, after an attack of rheumatic fever. As a result, Jane became his arms, handling most of his writing. As with all of the trials she faced, Jane managed John's challenges head-on and with pragmatism. As for those who felt gardening wasn't ladylike, Jane wrote, “…a lady, with the assistance of a common laborer to level and prepare the ground, may turn a barren waste into a flower garden with her own hands.” Eventually, John's right arm got so bad that surgeons needed to amputate it. They found him in his garden when they came to perform the surgery. John replied he intended to return to the garden immediately after the operation. Two weeks before Christmas 1843, Jane was helping John write his last book called, A Self Instruction to Young Gardeners. Around midnight, he stopped dictating and suddenly collapsed into Jane's arms and died. True to form, Jane completed the book on her own. The orphan girl who never knew financial security, Jane Loudon, is remembered with affection to this day for her beautiful illustrations and garden writing for the people. 1858 Today is the birthday of Ellen Ann Willmott, who was an English horticulturalist who lived in Brentwood. Ellen was the oldest in her family of three daughters. In 1875, her parents moved to Warley Place, which was set on 33 acres of land in Essex. Ellen lived there for the rest of her life. Now, the entire each member of the Willmott family enjoyed gardening, and they often gardened together as a family. Ellen once wrote, “I had a passion for sowing seeds and was very proud when I found out the difference between beads and seeds and gave up sewing the former.” The Willmott's created an alpine garden complete with a gorge and rockery. They also created a cave for their ferns. This was an activity that Ellen's father had approved to commemorate her 21st birthday. When her godmother died, Ellen received some pretty significant money. And, when Ellen's father died, Warley Place went to her. With her large inheritance and no love interest save her garden, Ellen planted to her heart's content. It was a good thing that Ellen had so much money because she sure liked to spend it. She had three homes: one in France, Warley Place, and another in Italy. Given the size of Warley Place, it's no wonder that Ellen hired over 100 gardeners to help her tend it. Now, Ellen was no shrinking violet. She was very demanding and impatient. She had a reputation for firing any gardener who allowed a weed to grow in her beds. And, she only hired men - at least before the war, that is. There's a famous quote from her that is often cited, “Women would be a disaster in the border.” Ellen's gardeners worked very hard - putting in twelve hours a day. And, Ellen made them wear a uniform that included a frog-green silk tie, a hat with a green band, and a blue apron. She could easily spot them as they worked in the garden. Ellen's favorite flower was the narcissus, and she asked her gardeners to let their children scatter them all around the garden. With such a large staff and maniacal devotion, Ellen's garden at Warley Place was revered, and her guests included Queen Mary, Queen Alexandra, and Princess Victoria. Ellen delighted in novel plants, and to acquire them, and she also paid for plant hunting expeditions. As the financier of these ventures, the plants that were discovered on these expeditions were often named in her honor. For example, Ellen sponsored the great Ernest Henry Wilson. When he returned, he named three plants after her: blue plumbago (Certostigmata Willmottianum), a yellow Corylopsis (Corylopsis Willmottiae), and a pink rose (Rosa Willmottiae). When Ellen received the Victoria Medal of Honor in 1897, she was honored alongside Gertrude Jekyll. This was a significant accomplishment for both women during this time. Yet, at the end of her life, Ellen died penniless and heartbroken. She had spent her entire inheritance on her gardens. After Ellen died, the house at Warley Place was demolished, but Warley Place, along with its grand row of 17th-century chestnut trees, managed to stay protected and became a nature preserve. And, there's a little story about Ellen that I thought you would enjoy. Ellen always carried a handbag. Now, in this handbag, She allegedly always carried two items: a revolver and thistle seeds. Obviously, the former was for protection, but the latter was put to far more sinister use. Allegedly, when Ellen would go to other people's gardens, she discreetly scattered thistle seed about the garden during her visit. To this day, the giant prickly thistle has the common name Miss Willmott's ghost. 1934 On this day, Elizabeth Lawrence wrote a letter to her sister Ann. In the letter, she mentions their mom, Bessie, who shared both her daughters' love of the garden. "I am so happy to get back to my rickety Corona; Ellen’s elegant new typewriter made anything I had to say unworthy of its attention. The Zinnias you raised for us are magnificent. There are lots of those very pale salmon ones that are the loveliest of all, and some very pale yellow ones that Bessie puts in my room. The red ones are in front of Boltonia and astilbe (white). I knew how awful the garden would be. I have come back to it before, and I knew Bessie wasn’t going to do anything by herself. But that doesn’t mitigate the despair that you feel when you see it. I worked for two days and almost got the weeds out of the beds around the summer house. There isn’t much left. There has been so much rain that the growth of the weeds was tropical." Unearthed WordsToday is National Potato Day. Here are some poems about the humble Potato. Three days into the journey I lost the Inca Trail and scrambled around the Andes in a growing panic when on a hillside below the snowline I met a farmer who pointed the way— Machu Picchu allá, he said. He knew where I wanted to go. From my pack, I pulled out an orange. It seemed to catch fire in that high blue Andean sky. I gave it to him. He had been digging in a garden, turning up clumps of earth, some odd, misshapen nuggets, some potatoes. He handed me one, a potato the size of the orange looking as if it had been in the ground a hundred years, a potato I carried with me until at last I stood gazing down on the Urubamba valley, peaks rising out of the jungle into clouds, and there among the mists was the Temple of the Sun and the Lost City of the Incas. Looking back now, all these years later, what I remember most, what matters to me most, was that farmer, alone on his hillside, who gave me a potato, a potato with its peasant's face, its lumps and lunar craters, a potato that fit perfectly in my hand, a potato that consoled me as I walked, told me not to fear, held me close to the earth, the Potato I put in a pot that night, the Potato I boiled above Machu Picchu, the patient, gnarled Potato I ate. — Joseph Stroud, American poet, The Potato In haste one evening while making dinner I threw away a potato that was spoiled on one end. The rest would have been redeemable. In the yellow garbage pail, it became the consort of coffee grounds, banana skins, carrot peelings. I pitched it onto the compost where steaming scraps and leaves return, like bodies over time, to earth. When I flipped the fetid layers with a hay fork to air the pile, the Potato turned up unfailingly, as if to revile me— looking plumper, firmer, resurrected instead of disassembling. It seemed to grow until I might have made shepherd's pie for a whole hamlet, people who pass the day dropping trees, pumping gas, pinning hand-me-down clothes on the line. — Jane Kenyon, American poet, Potato Grow That Garden Library Dahlias by Naomi Slade This book came out in 2018, and the subtitle is Beautiful Varieties for Home & Garden. The dahlia is a fabulous cutting flower for the home garden. Cut one bloom, and ten more appear on the plant. Blooming late summer to the first frost of autumn, this native of Mexico provides explosions of color in home gardens. Naomi Slade is a biologist by training, a naturalist by inclination, and she has a lifelong love of plants. Georgianna Lane is a leading garden photographer whose work has been widely published, and she's one of my favorites. This book is 240 pages of delicious dahlias - a gorgeous gift from Naomi and Georgianna. You can get a copy of Dahlias by Naomi Slade and support the show, using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $10 Today's Botanic Spark 1902 Today is the birthday of Ogden Nash. Ogden is the American poet, who said, "Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker." He also said, "Parsley is Gharsley." Ogden wrote several poems about gardening and flowers. His poem called My Victory Garden is a standout favorite with gardeners. Today, my friends, I beg your pardon, But I'd like to speak of my Victory Garden. With a hoe for a sword, and citronella for armor, I ventured forth to become a farmer. On bended knee, and perspiring clammily, I pecked at the soil to feed my family, A figure than which there was none more dramatic-er. Alone with the bug, and my faithful sciatica, I toiled with the patience of Job or Buddha, But nothing turned out the way it shudda. Would you like a description of my parsley? I can give it to you in one word--gharsley! They're making playshoes out of my celery, It's reclaimed rubber, and purplish yellery, Something crawly got into my chives, My lettuce has hookworm; my cabbage has hives, And I mixed the labels when sowing my carrots; I planted birdseed--it came up parrots. Do you wonder then, that my arteries harden Whenever I think of my Victory Garden? My farming will never make me famous, I'm an agricultural ignoramus, So don't ask me to tell a string bean from a soy bean. I can't even tell a girl bean from a boy bean.
Claire Urquhart and Marjorie Lotfi Gill discuss the story 'Gunter' by Helen Sedgwick and the poem 'Otherwise' by Jane Kenyon in this episode. Find out more about Open Book on our website: www.openbookreading.com/unbound Music: Ragland. Image credit: Susan Torkington
This week the poem is Briefly it enters, and briefly speaks by Jane Kenyon
What if we need other people, not to make life more meaningful, but to make it less so? What if life alone becomes fraught, difficult, and, well, "allegorical," as Kenyon puts it, when we're left alone? What if the danger of quarantine is not too little meaning but too much?
This week, Liberty and Tirzah discuss If I Had Your Face, The Silence of Bones, Late To the Party, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by TBR, Book Riot's subscription service; Ritual; and Book Riot Insiders. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. BOOKS DISCUSSED ON THE SHOW: Home Baked: My Mom, Marijuana, and the Stoning of San Francisco by Alia Volz On These Magic Shores by Yamile Saied Méndez If I Had Your Face: A Novel by Frances Cha Late to the Party by Kelly Quindlen How to Pronounce Knife: Stories by Souvankham Thammavongsa The Silence of Bones by June Hur I'm Your Huckleberry: A Memoir by Val Kilmer Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk WHAT WE'RE READING: The Blue Castle by Lucy Montgomery Post-Apocalypto by Tenacious D, Jack Black, Kyle Gass The Cold Millions: A Novel by Jess Walter MORE BOOKS OUT THIS WEEK: The Last Children of Mill Creek by Vivian Gibson Misconduct of the Heart: A Novel by Cordelia Strube Final Judgment (Samantha Brinkman Book 4) by Marcia Clark Kept Animals: A Novel by Kate Milliken The Inside Game: Bad Calls, Strange Moves, and What Baseball Behavior Teaches Us About Ourselves by Keith Law Creatures of Charm and Hunger by Molly Tanzer Dead Land (V.I. Warshawski Novels) by Sara Paretsky A Journey Toward Hope by Victor Hinojosa, Coert Voorhees, Susan Guevara Lost in Oaxaca: A Novel by Jessica Winters Mireles Eat, and Love Yourself by Sweeney Boo, Lylian Klepakowsky Nine Bar Blues by Sheree Renée Thomas The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time by Joseph Mazur The Soul of an Entrepreneur: Work and Life Beyond the Startup Myth by David Sax The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience by Matthew Cobb Rivers of Power: How a Natural Force Raised Kingdoms, Destroyed Civilizations, and Shapes Our World by Laurence C. Smith Strange Situation: A Mother's Journey into the Science of Attachment by Bethany Saltman Velocities by Kathe Koja The Closer You Get by Mary Torjussen Witch by Philip Matthews Unscripted by Nicole Kronzer The Women with Silver Wings: The Inspiring True Story of the Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II by Katherine Sharp Landdeck My Wife Said You May Want to Marry Me by Jason Rosenthal Kent State by Deborah Wiles The Business of Lovers: A Novel by Eric Jerome Dickey The Easy Part of Impossible by Sarah Tomp Verona Comics by Jennifer Dugan Deadly Anniversaries A Collection of Stories from Crime Fiction's Top Authors edited by Marcia Muller; Bill Pronzini Shorefall: A Novel (The Founders Trilogy) by Robert Jackson Bennett Race the Sands: A Novel by Sarah Beth Durst The Golden Flea: A Story of Obsession and Collecting by Michael Rips Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, and the Vendetta Ride From Hell by Tom Clavin Girl Gone Viral (Modern Love) by Alisha Rai Sigh, Gone: A Misfit's Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In by Phuc Tran Repo Virtual by Corey J. White What We Inherit: A Secret War and a Family's Search for Answers by Jessica Pearce Rotondi If It Bleeds by Stephen King Good Boy: My Life in Seven Dogs by Jennifer Finney Boylan Time of Our Lives by Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegemund-Broka The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany by Lori Nelson Spielman Master Class by Christina Dalcher Into the Clouds: The Race to Climb the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Scholastic Focus) by Tod Olson Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier Pretty Things: A Novel by Janelle Brown Rival Magic by Deva Fagan Passage West: A Novel by Rishi Reddi The Mystery of the Moon Tower by Francesco Sedita, Prescott Seraydarian Active Measures: The Secret History of Disinformation and Political Warfare by Thomas Rid Rick by Alex Gino The Best Poems of Jane Kenyon by Jane Kenyon In Her Shadow: A Novel by Kristin Miller There I Am: The Journey from Hopelessness to Healing—A Memoir by Ruthie Lindsey Foreverland: A Novel of Middle School Ups and Downs by Nicole C. Kear A Thousand Moons by Sebastian Barry Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me by Sopan Deb and Hasan Minhaj I’m Still Here: A Memoir by Martina Reaves The Ranger of Marzanna by Jon Skovron Warhol by Blake Gopnik Lifting as We Climb: Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box by Evette Dionne The Water Bears by Kim Baker The Girl and the Stars (The Book of the Ice) by Mark Lawrence You Let Me In by Camilla Bruce Reproduction by Ian Williams The Deck of Omens (The Devouring Gray) by Christine Lynn Herman Everything Is Under Control: A Memoir with Recipes by Phyllis Grant The House of Deep Water by Jeni McFarland Deluge by Leila Chatti The Book of Longings: A Novel by Sue Monk Kidd Welcome to Buttermilk Kitchen by Suzanne Vizethann and Angie Mosier Ronan the Librarian by Tara Luebbe , Becky Cattie Sea Change by Nancy Kress Shrapnel Maps by Philip Metres
When anxiety rises, what's a person to do? Clues from breath prayers, poet Jane Kenyon, WWII Christian Corrie Ten Boom, and Psalm 1.
Amanda Holmes reads Jane Kenyon’s poem “Trouble with Math in a One-Room Country School.” Have a suggestion for a poem? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Today's poem is Jane Kenyon's "Three Songs at the End of Summer." If you like this show be sure to subscribe, rate, and review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
I've resisted reading Donald Hall for so long, probably as a misguided act of loyalty to my favourite poet, Donald's late wife Jane Kenyon. Recently I was given his book A Blue Wing Tilts At The Edge Of The Sea and finally opened it up to find another view on Hall and Kenyon's relationship through … Continue reading "Ep 103. Finally reading Donald Hall"
From an abusive and traumatic childhood to finding out her partner was stealing from here Jane Kenyon really has been through it all. Despite all that she was still able to motivate herself into become an extremely successful entrepreneur and today she spends her time inspiring thousands of women after founding the Girls Out Loud organisation. I sat down with her to discover how to pick yourself up when you’ve been knocked down. This is the most value driven podcast I’ve recorded to date and I can’t wait for you to listen and get inspired! _______Katy Leeson, the Managing Director of Social Chain is launching a podcast titled 'I Shouldn't Say This, But...'. The podcast aims to explore Katy's journey as MD of one of the fastest growing social marketing agencies in the world and to hear the inner secrets of a woman in a predominantly male role.
Blue Bowl, Let Evening Come, August Rain, After Haying and Summer Rain
Today's poem is Jane Kenyon's "Not Here". Remember: Subscribe, rate, review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
David Brooks' The Balcony was one of the first poetry books I truly connected with. In this episode I look closer at two of his poems and draw some parallels with another of my favourites, Jane Kenyon. Show notes Wild Duck Sutra in Meanjin Jane Kenyon's Depression in Winter
Welcome back to The Daily Poem! Today's poem is Jane Kenyon's "Let Evening Come."Remember: subscribe, rate, review! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
This week, special guest Rachel Mosley shares the story of her Grandmother's passing, we'll hear original music from The Mosleys, and close with Jane Kenyon's poem "Let Evening Come". The post S1:E4 – The Speeding River Of Light appeared first on Matthew Clark.
Massachusetts poet and educator Nancy Boutilier wants you to break free of the constraints keeping you from writing — and creating. Learn her techniques and crack open your creative chi. What are you feeding your writer? What’s your diet? I ask [my students] to keep a log of their diet. I ask them to write down — what have you read this week? Jane Kenyon said: Be a good steward of your gifts. This whole quote is about attitudes and actions... there’s a goodness to this, living a good life.
“I want to feel both the beauty and the pain of the age we are living in … I want to possess a light touch that can elevate darkness to the realm of stars.” Terry Tempest Wiliams, from When Women Were BirdsAn exploration of the various ways we are called to “let go” in the final days of this autumn season, to reach the state of being described by Terry Tempest Williams. Includes a story about an old woman and a black dog, the descent of Innana, and poetry by James Wright and Jane Kenyon.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/mythmatterspodcast)
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Dan Clendenin. Essay by Dan Clendenin: *Would Jesus Have Marched?* for Sunday, 5 February 2017; book review by Dan Clendenin: *Born to Run* by Bruce Springsteen (2016); film review by Dan Clendenin: *The White Helmets* (2016); poem selected by Dan Clendenin: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.
Upbeat with Tom Hayes and Rosemarie Young invite the UK's Jane Kenyon for a return visit to analyze an article in the Huffington Post written by Amy Westervelt on "Why Having It All Kinda Sucks". The article uncovered the dilemma most women face today trying to juggle, career, home, husband, and children and the concomitant pitfalls and avalanche of unappreciated work and 24/7 dedication. Tune in and/or call 646 929 2451 for an erudite and controversial discussion.
Happiness was part of my life for years before I took the time to understand the poet who wrote it. Now it's an even closer friend. Definitely read the non-mangled text of The Clothes Pin, then make some tea and read Donald Hall's essay on life with Jane, The Third Thing.
Author of The Selected Poems of Donald Hall Interview starts at 12:51 and ends at 43:57 It was a house that my great-grandfather bought in 1865, and the same family's always lived in it. I'll be dying pretty soon, of course, in the way of things. But I have a granddaughter who's going to take it over then. Magnificent! News Tweet of Blue Origin landing by @JeffBezos Blue Origin rocket video - November 24, 2015 “The reusable space rocket is nearly here with Blue Origin's first successful landing” by Loren Grush at The Verge - November 24, 2015 Tech Tip A conversation with my wife Darlene on how to share books from the same Kindle archive Interview with Donald Hall The Selected Poems of Donald Hall - available for preorder with delivery December 1, 2015 Essays After Eighty by Donald Hall White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall The Best Day the Worst Day: Life with Jane Kenyon by Donald Hall Without: Poems by Donald Hall The Painted Bed: Poems by Donald Hall Web of Stories audio interviews with Donald Hall in 2010 Content 400 Open Road Media books on sale Monday, November 30, 2015, at the Kindle Store Music for my podcast is from an original Thelonius Monk composition named "Well, You Needn't." This version is "Ra-Monk" by Eval Manigat on the "Variations in Time: A Jazz Persepctive" CD by Public Transit Recording" CD. Please Join the Kindle Chronicles group at Goodreads!
Larry O. Dean was born and raised in Flint, Michigan. As a young man, he worked with Academy Award-winning filmmaker, Michael Moore, published essays and reviews on popular culture in the alternative press, and also cartooned for fanzines and other underground outlets. He attended the University of Michigan, where he won three Hopwood Awards in Creative Writing, along with fellow poets John Ciardi, Robert Hayden, Jane Kenyon, and Frank O’Hara, among others; and Murray State University’s low-residency MFA program. He teaches creative writing, literature, and composition as an adjunct English instructor, and is a Poet-in-Residence in the Chicago Public Schools through the Poetry Center of Chicago’s Hands on Stanzas program. He was a recipient of the Gwendolyn Brooks Award for teaching excellence in 2004.
An explanation. An excuse. A question as to the truth of human nature.
Jane is a powerhouse on the female empowerment stage. If the subject is female you want her on your team/platform and her credibility and validity in this market is unquestionable. She is an awesome speaker, intuitive coach, author, blogger and media commentator, game changer, serial entrepreneur, social leader, teen girl advocate, ambassador for enterprise, visionary thinker and all round motivational DIVA! To say she rocks is an understatement. For the past 15 years she has worked in the personal development arena, 10 of these focussed exclusively on empowering women and teenage girls and her passion for potential is contagious .In 2007 she founded an organisation for women called The Well Heeled Divas dedicated to empowering and inspiring a million women to step up and shine. Over the past 8 years Jane has had the privilege to work with thousands of women through Diva workshops, coaching programmes and events and this is how her alter ego THE DIVA was born! She has lived a real life littered with critical moments and adversity. The choices she has made in her darkest hours have magnified her self belief, resilience and sense of self and it is her ability to translate her story into positive life lessons for others, with warmth, honesty and relevance that separates her from the crowd. She epitomises ‘the been there, done that, got the T-shirt’ philosophy and is generous with her time, talents and wisdom.
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This week I'm talking to Jane Kenyon, author and founder of Girls Out Loud. Jane's extraordinary achievements have come against the odds, and she's still battling to champion a cause where the need is screaming but the funding and support is diabolical.
This week I'm talking to Jane Kenyon, author and founder of Girls Out Loud. Jane's extraordinary achievements have come against the odds, and she's still battling to champion a cause where the need is screaming but the funding and support is diabolical.
Todays guest has certainly been on a roller-coaster ride to where she now find herself today. From a privileged background to alone and broke at 16; successful, high flying corporate career to entrepreneurial burnout at 35; wealth to near bankruptcy twice, her critical moments are many and her ability to convert failure into success an inspiration to everyone she meets. And with such a track record of the highs and lows in life, it is little surprise that she has become passionate about inspiring women and young girls to utilise their female power and energy, and kick some serious booty. With her two platforms “Well Heeled Divas” and “Girls Out Loud” gaining a passionate following, she works with ladies, and young ladies to find the thing that lights them up inside and think differently to recognise their full potential. She believes that the we have the duty “to step up and create an outstanding life as opposed to settling for mediocrity.” which I suppose the vast amount of people on this world do. She published her first book Superwoman – Her Sell By Date Has Expired!: Time to show Little Miss Perfect the door last year which is selling well, and certainly the future and the present appears very rosy indeed. So where did her corporate career go wrong? And why did she feel the need to go 360 and step away from the “what can I gain” mentally of corporate of the world, and move boldly into the “what can I give” world she now loves everyday? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots, with the one and only Mrs Jane Kenyon.
This is the second special edition Advent audio podcast. A couple years ago I composed a list of Advent poems. Since that time, it has gone on to be one of the most read Coffeehouse Junkie blog posts. This episode features “Mosaic of the Nativity (Serbia, Winter 1993)” by Jane Kenyon, “Nativity” by John Donne, “A Christmas Carol” by Christina Georgina Rossetti and a selection from the Book of Common Prayer. Also, special thanks to Folk Angel for permission to use “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” from their album Comfort & Joy – Christmas Songs, Vol. 3. If you are looking for some great Christmas records, check out their website, FolkAngle.com. They are a Texas band that performs rearrangements of traditional Christmas songs. And I just found out that their latest album drops today! Right now they are offering a sale on the first five albums (42 songs) for $10. See you next time at the Coffee Den!
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *"Yes, I am a King:" The Anti-Politics of Christ the King* for Sunday, 25 November 2012; book review: *The Woodcuts of Harlan Hubbard, with a foreword by Wendell Berry* by Harlan Hubbard (1994); film review: *We Were Here* (2011); poem review: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Original Goodness: A Prayer from Outer Space* for Sunday, 19 June 2011; book review: *Dancing in the Glory of Monsters; The Collapse of the Congo and the Great War of Africa* by Jason K. Stearns (2011); film review: *Gas Land* (2010); poem review: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.
Archival recordings of the poet Jane Kenyon, with an introduction to her life and work. Recorded 1988, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Renunciation and Return: To Be Fully Known and Freely Loved*, for Sunday, 18 April 2010; book review: *Mennonite in a Little Black Dress; A Memoir of Going Home* by Rhoda Janzen (2009); film review: *Jesus of Montreal* (2010); poem review: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.
John Brugaletta and Rachel Wheeler read and discuss works on the subject of the Annunciation; the Christian celebration of the announcement by the angel Gabriel to Mary that she would become the God-bearer, featuring poems by Denise Levertov, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Kenyon and others. Hosted by Tim Ayres. Produced at KHSU...khsu.org
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *He Knows My Name* guest essay by Lindsey Crittenden for Sunday, 30 September 2007; book review: *The Invisible Cure; Africa, the West, and the Fight Against AIDS* by Helen Epstein (2007); film review: *Deep Water* (2006); poem review: *Otherwise* by Jane Kenyon.