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Dear Wonderful Readers,The following vignette is what we call a “raw write.” I wrote it in 40 minutes in my writing class called UnMute, led by my incredible writing teacher, ANN RANDOLPH. I've been attending Ann's classes for the last three and a half years, and working with her has been a huge part of my creative journey. She'll be starting up UnMute again in the fall for any of you who have a lot of stories bubbling away inside of you but are unsure of where to start. I highly recommend her class.Today's prompt was the poem “What The Living Do” by Marie Howe, and I took the question: “Write about something broken in your home—something small and stupid. Let the description grow. What bigger thing does it mirror or hold? What grief or yearning lives inside that broken faucet, that squeaky hinge?”Also, I've got an exciting and quick Misseducated update. Starting this week, I will be experimenting with posting my work on Tuesdays. I've tended to publish too late on Friday evening, and I hope that publishing earlier in the week will give me more opportunities to share my work on social while it's still fresh. Still, I am eternally grateful to all my regular Friday readers, and I will keep you in the loop as to how it goes! You can expect posts from me on Tuesday from now on.I hope you enjoy this piece and have a great weekend.Love,Tash
The queens boil down the essence of some favorite poems and poets in this game that decides what poetry is *really* about.Please Support Breaking Form!Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.NOTES:Read the NY Times review of Michael Schmidt's The Lives of the PoetsListen to James Merrill read his poem "For Proust" and while we're on the subject, here's a madeleine recipe. For an examination of Bishop's sensible sensibility, go here. Watch Anne Carson read from Nox (~24 min).Here is a Galway Kinnell tribute reading from May 2015 which included Marie Howe and Sharon Olds (among others).Watch Dorianne Laux read "Trying to Raise the Dead" published in her book SmokeIn a New Yorker profile interview, Natasha Trethewey discusses Native Guard, and says that we have to remember "the nearly two hundred thousand African American soldiers who fought in the Civil War, who fought for their own freedom, who fought to preserve the Union rather than destroy the Union, to whom there are very few monuments erected. Just think how different the landscape of the South would be, and how differently we would learn about our Southern history, our shared American history, if we had monuments to those soldiers who won the war—who didn't lose the war but won the war to save the Union. Those are the monuments we need to have." Read the whole conversation and profile here.Here's a BBC4 adaptation of Browning's The Ring and the Book (~1 hour)Go here for more about George Meredith's sonnet sequence Modern Love.If you were looking for a free audio full-text version of Tennyson's In Memoriam read by Elizabeth Klatt, today's your lucky day. (~2.5 hours).
A monk asked Hongzhi, “What about the ones who have gone?”Hongzhi said, “White clouds rise to the top of the valleys, blue peakslean into the empty sky.”The monk asked, “What about the ones who return?”Hongzhi said, “Heads covered in white hair, they leave the cliffs andvalleys. In the dead of night they descend through the clouds to themarket stalls.”“What about the ones who neither come nor go?”“The stone woman calls them back from their dream of the world.”As the year comes to an end, I have been spending time with the archetype of the Stone Woman. A character who mysteriously turns up throughout the Chan koan tradition. We find her getting up to dance in the Precious Mirror Samadhi, giving birth to a child at night in the Mountains and Rivers Sutra and calling us back from our dream of the world in this dialogue with Hongzhi.Who is this woman of stone?Perhaps you have met her as the ancient boulders that watch over you during a favorite hike, or the large rocks you used to climb and rest on as a child. Perhaps you've held her hand while walking on the beach or along a river. Or maybe you've encountered her in the stone buildings or concrete sidewalks of your neighborhood.Her stillness and quiet are reminiscent of your own deeply silent Mind.Her pregnant darkness allows all of creation to spring forth. Including you, and me, and each thought, word, expression, desire, feeling and sensation.Koans contain layers of meaning, and while their intention is to aid us in awakening to the profound truth of non-separation—they also have a way of meeting us exactly where we are. So as one year turns into another. Let's take the questioner's inquiries to heart.What about the ones who have gone? They ask—Well, where have you gone? These last 12 months. What/who did you visit? What did you see? What experiences did you seek out? What did you learn from your going?Is there a word, phrase, image—that speaks to your going and learning this last year?Hongzhi gives us this one: “White clouds rise to the top of the valleys, blue peaks lean into the empty sky.”Then we are asked: What about the ones who return?What did you return to? Where did you take refuge?What are places of return for you? Physical, mental, emotional, spiritual? Who do you return to?How have you shared or offered yourself? Who/what are you in service to?Is there a connection to going/learning—and returning?Is there an image, word, phrase connected to returning, refuge or offering?Hongzhi again gives us one: “Heads covered in white hair, they leave the cliffs and valleys. In the dead of night they descend through the clouds to the market stalls.”Lastly the questioner asks, what about those who neither come nor go?What have you stayed with? Whether its sobriety, a relationship, vows, commitments, a creative project, a home, a child—reflect on stayingWhat commitments did you honor? What values did you live by?Reflect on the challenges and joys of staying.What image, word or phrase captures the art of staying for you.Hongzhi says: The stone woman calls them back from their dream of the worldNow, for a moment let yourself be here, let thoughts come and go, body sensations come and go, but really be here at the stillness of your being.Whats it like to be here—here?Be the stone woman.Connect to the stillness and quiet of stone—the unconditioned heartPrajna Paramita—wisdom beyond wisdomThere is something beautiful here, being called back from our dreams of the world, the things we did, didn't do, our learnings.To just be here, right hereAnd let our dreams for the next year be in communion with the dream of the stone woman, the dream of awakening—What is that like?To let your dreams merge with the great dream, your life touch this one unconditioned life.To close, I'll leave you with this poem by Marie Howe. Sending you blessings for the New Year.SINGULARITYby Marie Howe(after Stephen Hawking)Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularitywe once were?so compact nobodyneeded a bed, or food or money —nobody hiding in the school bathroomor home alonepulling open the drawerwhere the pills are kept.For every atom belonging to me as goodBelongs to you. Remember?There was no Nature. Nothem. No teststo determine if the elephantgrieves her calf or ifthe coral reef feels pain. Trashedoceans don't speak English or Farsi or French;would that we could wake up to what we were— when we were ocean and before thatto when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock wasliquid and stars were space and space was notat all — nothingbefore we came to believe humans were so importantbefore this awful loneliness.Can molecules recall it?what once was? before anything happened?No I, no We, no one. No wasNo verb no nounonly a tiny tiny dot brimming withis is is is isAll everything homeI'm Amy Kisei. I am a Zen Buddhist Teacher, Spiritual Counselor, budding Astrologer and Artist. I offer 1:1 Spiritual Counseling sessions in the styles of IFS and somatic mindfulness. I also offer astrology readings. Check out my website to learn more.Below you can find a list of weekly and monthly online and in-person practice opportunities. I will be traveling to Oregon in February and will be facilitating three events of varying lengths while I am there (most of which are taking place at Great Vow Zen Monastery.)Weekly Online Meditation EventMonday Night Dharma — 6P PT / 9P ET Join weekly for drop-in meditation and dharma talk. Feel free to join anytime. Event last about 1.5 hours. ZOOM LINKMonthly Online Practice EventSky+Rose: The Ritual of Being Lost on Sunday January 510:30A - 12:30P PT / 1:30P - 3:30P ETRSVPIn-Person in OregonFeb 1 — Sky+Rose Daylong Retreat: The Strange Garden of Desire The strange garden of desire: wandering, dreaming, feasting, tending, destroying.In this daylong workshop each person will explore their singular Strange Garden of Desires, taking a fresh look at what loves, longings, obsessions and obligations live within us.Through parts work, meditation, and practices of somatic expression we will engage our gardens in five distinct ways: wandering, dreaming, tending, feasting and destroying.Feb 2 - 9 — Pari-Nirvana Sesshin: A Meditation Retreat exploring Life, Death & the UnknownFeb 13 - 16 — Emergent Darkness – A Creative Process, Parts Work and Zen RetreatIn-Person in Ohio(See Mud Lotus Sangha Calendar for weekly meditation events, classes and retreats) This is a public episode. 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Heidi and Ellen gather to welcome Scorpio. We enter the season of alchemy and transformation. Scorpio invites us to be rigorous in our healing, searching for the treasures that are found only in the depths. Scorpio helps us overcome fear and move towards what matters most to us. They do a deep dive into the birthdays of Georgia O'Keefe and Hillary Clinton. Heid read the poem The Maples by Marie Howe. Books mentioned: Commonwealth by Ann Patchett; New and Selected Poems by Marie Howe. Television and Movies: Shrinking; Slow Horses; 9-5 The Story of a Movement. Remember to VOTE!! Do you have a question you'd like featured on the podcast? Send a 1-minute audio and your birth information (date of birth, time, and place) to assistant@heidirose.com. Chart Your Career Instagram: @chartyourcareerpodcast To connect with the hosts, visit: Heidi Rose Robbins, Astrologer & Poet: heidirose.com, IG: @heidiroserobbins Ellen Fondiler, Career & Business Strategist: ellenfondiler.com, IG: @elfondiler
On this episode of Vibe Check, Sam and Zach talk about Black male voters being the scapegoats of this election cycle. Then, they talk about troubling TikTok findings. Plus, a few recommendations to keep your vibe right.We want to hear from you! Email us at vibecheck@stitcher.com, and keep in touch with us on Instagram @vibecheck_pod.You can now get direct access to the group chat! Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/vibecheck. Vibe Check listeners can now get a free three month trial to the SiriusXM app by going to siriusxm.com/vibecheck.------------------------------------------------------Recommendations:SAM: CHARLI XCX Remix Album (and “Everything Is Romantic” Remix with Caroline Polachek)ZACH: The Apprentice (film) SAEED: Chainsaw by Marie Howe
Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú
Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú
Ways of Seeing 2: More words and music from Belfast Book Festival with Paul McVeigh, Marie Howe, John Toal, Mícheál McCann, Maria McManus, and music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna, Éimear McGeown, Donogh Hennessy and Trú
We're snatching wigs in this one! The queens get real about bad poetry. If you'd like to 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.NOTESWatch the official lyric video for "But Daddy I Love Him" and read this article about what the pub The Black Dog (the titular pub from the Taylor Swift Song) s like.Read Mona van Dun's minimalist sonnet "Closure" here.If you hate your eyeballs and poetry, go read Helen Steiner Rice's "It Takes the Bitter and the Sweet" and her foundation's website. The article Aaron talks about is Vice's "Bad Poetry is Everywhere," which quotes Yasmin Belkhyr. It includes links to the receipts about the poet we note has been alleged to have plagiarized--and here's the Daily Beast article about that poet too.Javier O. Huerta in an essay for the Poetry Foundation named a few good bad poems, including Elizabeth Bishop's "Casabianca"Here is the first sonnet from Sonnets From the Portuguese.Read Wallace Stevens's "Anecdote of the Jar" Marie Howe's "What the Living Do" is the title poem from her 2nd collection. You can watch her read the poem here.
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit andrewsullivan.substack.comAdam is the best magazine editor of my generation, and an old friend. From 2004 to 2019, he was the editor-in-chief of New York Magazine, and before that he edited the New York Times Magazine, and 7 Days — a weekly news magazine covering art and culture in NYC. His first book is The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing.For two clips of our convo — on the bygone power of magazines, and the birth of the great and powerful performance artist Dina Martina — pop over to our YouTube page. Other topics: his upbringing on Long Island; fantasizing about NYC through the cosmopolitanism of magazines; being a “magazine junky extremely early”; the literary journalism of the ‘60s; Gay Talese; Joan Didion; Tom Wolfe; Adam's early start at The Village Voice; 18-hour workdays; joining Rolling Stone then Esquire; commissioning Frank Rich's groundbreaking piece on gay culture; the visual strength of mags; 7 Days “doomed from the start” because of a stock market crash; the NYT's Joe Lelyveld hiring Adam to “make trouble” with creative disruption; Tina Brown; “the mix” of magazines like a dinner party; the psychodrama of writers clashing with colleagues; how the Internet killed magazines; the blogosphere; podcasting; the artist Cheryl Pope and her series on miscarriages; Tony Kushner's Angels in America; when creation is tedious and painful; Leaves of Grass and its various versions; Montaigne's essays; Pascal and the incompleteness of The Pensées; Amy Sillman painting over her beautiful work; Steven Sondheim; choreographer Twyla Tharp; poetry as the concentration of language and the deconstruction of how we speak; poets Marie Howe and Louise Gluck; the fiction writer George Saunders; how weed suppresses the ego; and Adam's preternatural calm.Browse the Dishcast archive for an episode you might enjoy (the first 102 are free in their entirety — subscribe to get everything else). Coming up: Oren Cass on Republicans moving left on class, Noah Smith on the economy, Bill Maher on everything, George Will on Trump and conservatism, Lionel Shriver on her new novel, Elizabeth Corey on Oakeshott, and the great Van Jones! Please send any guest recs, dissents, and other comments to dish@andrewsullivan.com.
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Mary kicks off the first full solo episode with an intimate exploration of codependency, friendship, desirability, and how the last few months have been since the separation. Back on the pod: lies, obsessions, and a poem by Marie Howe.
00:01:48 - Peg anf Flint read Fukanzazengi - Eihei Do-gen (P.p 30 Appamada Chant Book) 00:11:28 - Flints Asks ‘What was it like to hear it read out in this way'? 00:26:49 - Flint Reads a poem by Marie Howe (see Below) 00:32:33 - Peg reads a Poem by Dogen Easter Two of the fingers on his right hand had been broken so when he poured back into that hand it surprised him—it hurt him at first. And the whole body was too small. Imagine the sky trying to fit into a tunnel carved into a hill. He came into it two ways: From the outside, as we step into a pair of pants. And from the centre—suddenly all at once. Then he felt himself awake in the dark alone. - Marie Howe
Today's poem is A Certain Light by Marie Howe. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, guest host Victoria Chang writes… “Today's poem always moves me. I love the way this poem so lyrically depicts the surprising beauty and connection that can emerge amidst the deepest darkest moments of illness.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp
Poetry “carr[ies] the most human of voices” for Deema Shehabi, a Palestinian-American writer whose work has appeared in publications including The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology and Kenyon Review. Shehabi earned her undergraduate degree in History and International Relations from Tufts University and Master's in Journalism from Boston University, previously served as the vice president of the Radius of Arab American Writers, and has received four Pushcart prize nominations. She is the author of Thirteen Departures from the Moon and Diaspo/Renga, the latter of which she co-wrote with Marilyn Hacker. In this episode, Shehabi shares how Diaspo/Renga emerged out of four years of email correspondence with Hacker. Together, we celebrate the collection as a testament to the “private humanity” between its two poets. Shehabi also speaks to the homes she's found in Palestine, Kuwait, and California and the “perpetual expansion and contraction” that accompanies exile and return in her life. In negotiating this state of flux in her relationship with language, Shehabi talks about the burden of translation and always having to “teach people how to read” when she writes. Finally, Shehabi gifts us a striking reading of her poem, “Tracery of Dune and Chamomile,” which is modeled after Marie Howe and gazes upon the truth of humanity and intersections.Honorable MentionsRadius of Arab American Writers Diaspo/RengaEdward Said, “Reflections on Exile”Naomi Shihab Nye“Migrant Earth”, featured as Poem-a-Day on Poets.org Audio by Bloomsday Literary in partnership with the official 2023 AWP Conference & Bookfair Photo credit: Omar F. Khorsheed
The queens have a mind of winter in this showcase of iconically cold poems. Ice, ice, baby!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.Read "Those Winter Sundays" or listen to Robert Hayden read it here. Read more about A Ballad of Remembrance. Read Robert Frost's poem "Birches." Frost reads it (audio only) here (~3 minutes). You can read "More" by Marie Howe here. Watch a sock puppet read Timothy Liu's poem "Winter" -- because like why not? Poetry is for puppets, too, girl. Or read the text of it here. Read Jennifer Chang's "The World." Here is Christina Rossetti's "In the Bleak Midwinter."Read "Paul Revere's Ride" here.
Debut author Khashayar J. Khabushani, author of I Will Greet The Sun Again.Khash chats about:How coming out as an Artist held almost as many challenges as coming out as QueerThe transformative power of the Columbia University MFAWriting from memories and remembered sensesWriting to make amends to his childhood self and his inner childWriting hope and joy into a story with trauma and challenges imbedded in itGuest Author: Khashayar J. Khabushani Books: I Will Greet The Sun Again by Khashayar J. KhabushaniHost: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This FamilyKhash's recommendations:A book for fans of Khash's work: What The Living Do by Marie Howe, What Work Is by Philip LevineA book Khash has always loved: Another Country by James Baldwin, We The Animals by Justin TorresA book that's been published recently or is coming soon: The Fraud by Zadie SmithOther books mentioned in this episode: Just Kids by Patti SmithNovel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCHTo receive transcripts and news from Kate to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.Thanks for listening!Kate x
Episode 194 Notes and Links to Ruth Madievsky's Work On Episode 194 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Ruth Madievsky and the two discuss, among other things, her early relationship with Moldova and the former Soviet Union, her bilingual journey, formative and transformative writers and works, her sensibility as a poet and novelist, and prominent themes and issues about and surrounding her book, such as generational trauma and its effect on families and individuals, sexual violence, homophobia, codependent relationships, and dark humor that comes with pain and trauma. Ruth Madievsky is the author of a novel, All-Night Pharmacy (Catapult, July 2023), an instant national bestseller. An Indie Next Pick, All-Night Pharmacy has been named a Best/Most Anticipated 2023 Book by over 40 venues, including NPR, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vulture, and Buzzfeed. Her fiction, nonfiction, and poetry appear in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, GQ, Tin House, Guernica, them, Ploughshares, The American Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, Emergency Brake (Tavern Books, 2016), was the winner of the Wrolstad Contemporary Poetry Series and spent five months on Small Press Distribution's Poetry Bestsellers list. She was the winner of The American Poetry Review's Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize, The Iowa Review's Tim McGinnis Award for fiction, and a Tin House scholarship in poetry. She is a founding member of the Cheburashka Collective, a community of women and nonbinary writers whose identity has been shaped by immigration from the Soviet Union to the United States. She has recently completed a second poetry collection. Originally from Moldova, she lives in Los Angeles, where she works as an HIV and primary care clinical pharmacist. She tweets her existential longings at @ruthmadievsky. Buy All-Night Pharmacy Ruth's Website Review of All-Night Pharmacy from Kirkus Reviews Article about All-Night Pharmacy in The Los Angeles Times Conversation and Article with Adrian Florido on NPR's “All Things Considered” At about 2:50, Ruth discusses her mindset in this time immediately after two milestones-the birth of her daughter and great success for All-Night Pharmacy At about 4:25, Ruth shouts out Skylight Books as a great place, among many, to buy her book-also, Book Soup At about 5:00, Ruth talks about her family's history with the Russian language and their Jewish identity in the former Soviet Union and reasons for emigration At about 8:10, Ruth talks about communities of those who spoke Russian and those who shared her love for reading and writing and storytelling At about 12:15, Pete asks which books and writers were formative and transformative for Ruth At about 14:20, Ruth talks about the “contradictory, complicated” Los Angeles of her youth and beyond At about 16:00, Ruth shouts out Richard Siken, Marie Howe, Terrance Hayes, Bryan Washington, Raven Leilani, as inspirational and challenging writers At about 17:35, Pete compliments the book's “arresting” last image At about 18:30, Ruth describes why she's “a poet writing novels,” in relation to recent fun viral posts At about 20:15, Ruth highlights a fun “deleted scene” article from Guernica At about 22:55, Pete highlights the book's epigraph and an early strong characterization of Debbie At about 24:10, Ruth gives a characterization of Debbie At about 26:00, The two juxtapose the narrator and Debbie and shout the “earnest” Ronnie At about 28:50, Ruth gives background on the “cursed bar game”-“Wealthy Patron” and the bar Salvation At about 30:30, The two discuss Ronnie as “stable” in light of Debbie and the narrator's troubled parents At about 31:30, Ruth talks about traumas and how they inform the actions of Debbie and the narrator's mother At about 33:20, Generational gaps are highlighted, particularly among Debbie and the narrator's grandmother and them; the larger idea of Jewish and other immigrants and ideas of hardship are discussed At about 35:05, Ruth responds to Pete's question about what one does to “live up to” their forebears' sacrifices; she points to the narrator's guilt/conflicted feelings and trying to “honor” At about 37:15, A heavy and darkly humorous party from the book is highlighted At about 37:45, Ruth speaks to the ways in which the sisters acted out in connection to their father as “mostly a nonentity” At about 39:15, Ruth discusses the knife and statue and ideas of agency in the narrator's life At about 42:10, The two discuss touch and “cutting” and the transference of pain At about 43:00, Ruth discusses ideas of “being a victim,” particularly in the ways in which Debbie and her sister deal with their sexual abuse At about 47:00, The two discuss the codependent relationship between sisters, as well as Sasha's At about 50:00, Ruth talks about the contrast between the narrator's relationship with Sasha in the US and Moldova and how their relationship evolved At about 52:50, Pete quotes some meaningful lines from the book that deal with generational traumas At about 54:00, Pete wonders if Ruth has plans to further explore issues and characters from All-Night Pharmacy in future projects At about 56:30, An article in Full Stop that cites a reason for the book's title is mentioned You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode. Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content! NEW MERCH! 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This week, Charif Shanahan asks Marie Howe the Big Questions about writing into the unknown, losing oneself in poems, spirituality, the ineffable, teaching and mentorship, and more. Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry, most recently Magdalene (W.W. Norton, 2017), which imagines the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene as a woman who embodies the spiritual and sensual, alive in a contemporary landscape—hailing a cab, raising a child, listening to news on the radio. Howe also co-edited (with Michael Klein) the book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (Persea, 1994). In 2015, she received the Academy of American Poets Poetry Fellowship, and from 2012-2014, served as the poet laureate of New York State. Today, we'll hear two new poems by Howe from the May issue of Poetry, as well as two older poems, including “Prayer,” which lives above Shanahan's desk. With thanks to W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. for permission to include “Prayer” from The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, copyright © 2008 by Marie Howe, and “The Gate” from What the Living Do: Poems, copyright © 1998 by Marie Howe. All rights reserved.
Loretta welcomes spoken word artist Kim Rosen, and composer and cellist Jami Sieber!Kim Rosen, spoken word artist, and Jami Sieber, composer and cellist, have created a transformative convergence of music and poems that emerge from the heartbreak, gratitude, and wake-up call of this moment in our lives and in the life of our world. The words of Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin, Deena Metzger, Mark Nepo, Yehuda Amichai, and Mary Oliver, spoken by Kim, rise and fall in the evocative waves of Jami's original music.This unique creation, born of 21 years of collaboration between Jami and Kim, masterfully merges the power of evocative music to melt the heart with the medicine of poetry to open the mind. The result is a transformational listening experience like no other. The spoken voice moves through multiple layers of music to create an utterly immersive soundscape at once, entrancing and awakening. Musical artists Hans Teuber, Nancy Rumbel, Sean Woolstenhulme, Greg Campbell weave their gifts into the soundscape of Jami Sieber's cello in tracks to carry the listener from heartbreak to humor, from contemplation to irresistible, foot-stomping celebration.Jami and Kim have been facilitating explorations of the difficult, necessary themes of aging, death, and waking up for many years. This offering is a culmination of their shared love of the realness, rawness, and intimacy that arises when we turn towards all levels of letting go.In this moment in history, every one of us has been touched and changed by the personal, societal, and planetary changes we are undergoing. Feast of Losses is a balm and a challenge to the growing population of those consciously turning towards aging, death and letting go. In the last few years there have been lively conversations, conferences, and a veritable plethora of publications – catalyzed by the pandemic and the world situation and by the multitude of Baby Boomers approaching their later years and wanting to create a new way of meeting the challenges and blessings they bring. The magic of Jami's immersive, layered, evocative, and at times, orchestral music in resonance with the poems offer a portal of healing, inspiration, and awakening.Find out more at:https://www.kimrosen.net/abouthttps://jamisieber.com/feast-of-losses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Loretta welcomes spoken word artist Kim Rosen, and composer and cellist Jami Sieber! Kim Rosen, spoken word artist, and Jami Sieber, composer and cellist, have created a transformative convergence of music and poems that emerge from the heartbreak, gratitude, and wake-up call of this moment in our lives and in the life of our world. The words of Langston Hughes, Stanley Kunitz, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Lucille Clifton, W.S. Merwin, Deena Metzger, Mark Nepo, Yehuda Amichai, and Mary Oliver, spoken by Kim, rise and fall in the evocative waves of Jami's original music. This unique creation, born of 21 years of collaboration between Jami and Kim, masterfully merges the power of evocative music to melt the heart with the medicine of poetry to open the mind. The result is a transformational listening experience like no other. The spoken voice moves through multiple layers of music to create an utterly immersive soundscape at once, entrancing and awakening. Musical artists Hans Teuber, Nancy Rumbel, Sean Woolstenhulme, Greg Campbell weave their gifts into the soundscape of Jami Sieber's cello in tracks to carry the listener from heartbreak to humor, from contemplation to irresistible, foot-stomping celebration. Jami and Kim have been facilitating explorations of the difficult, necessary themes of aging, death, and waking up for many years. This offering is a culmination of their shared love of the realness, rawness, and intimacy that arises when we turn towards all levels of letting go. In this moment in history, every one of us has been touched and changed by the personal, societal, and planetary changes we are undergoing. Feast of Losses is a balm and a challenge to the growing population of those consciously turning towards aging, death and letting go. In the last few years there have been lively conversations, conferences, and a veritable plethora of publications – catalyzed by the pandemic and the world situation and by the multitude of Baby Boomers approaching their later years and wanting to create a new way of meeting the challenges and blessings they bring. The magic of Jami's immersive, layered, evocative, and at times, orchestral music in resonance with the poems offer a portal of healing, inspiration, and awakening. Find out more at: https://www.kimrosen.net/about https://jamisieber.com/feast-of-losses
“If we want to be free, at some point we have to plant our staff in the ground and say, 'I am here.'" — Koshin Paley Ellison This week's guest is Sensei Koshin Paley Ellison, founder and guiding teacher of the New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care. Ellison is an author, Jungian psychotherapist and ACPE Certified Chaplain Educator. Koshin has served as the co-director for Contemplative Care Services in the Department of Integrative Medicine at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center and is currently on the faculty of the University of Arizona Medical School's Center for Integrative Medicine. His most recent book is Untangled: Walking the Eightfold Path to Clarity, Courage and Compassion. While Koshin has extensive education, he explains that it's ultimately all been in search of deeper meaning. As a young man he discovered the poetry of Marie Howe and was moved to seek her out as a teacher. He subsequently studied under her, earning an MFA. Then, after serving as a hospital chaplain, he went on to get a degree in social work in order to learn how to help others better. This led him to studying psychoanalysis. But clearly what has most deeply informed Koshin's life is his practice of Zen meditation, which he's formally studied since 1987. "Zen," Koshin explains, simply means sitting meditation. It's one of the various practices of meditation, and all are valid routes to self-reflection and exploration. It was this practice that enabled him to sit with and be present with the dying as a hospital chaplain. He started in this work when his grandmother was dying, who observed that he and his "Zen people" were the only people who could be fully present with her, without distraction, fear, or busy-ness. He credits her as the real founder of the Zen Center for Contemplative Care. In an effort to bring these principles to the medical community, Koshin helps doctors and other clinicians bring a contemplative practice to their work and their lives, enabling them to be more present for their patients, as well as themselves. Ultimately, what's important, Koshin says, is that we not get too attached to our identity. We take on different identities throughout our days and lives depending on the situation we're in. Letting go of attachment to one's identity is key. He also believes that suffering is rooted in the gap between what we believe to be right and good and how we act daily, and he strives to help people to close that gap in order to live more authentic, meaningful lives. In this episode of Leading with Genuine Care, you'll also learn: How a traumatic memory from Koshin's childhood came back to him and how he responded His first lesson as an 11-year-old karate student His own moments of insight with being attached to his identity Why Buddhism is still relevant today How anxiety is an addiction How he finds gratitude and appreciation in everyday life Connect With Koshin Paley Ellison Website https://zencare.org Instagram @koshipaleyellison The 2023 Do Nothing Retreat is open for registration (5 spots remaining) Join us from October 8-12 for The Do Nothing Retreat, a mindfulness meditation retreat suitable for meditators at all levels The retreat will enable you to cultivate a deeper mindfulness practice while in a peaceful and rejuvenating mountain location. Previous attendees have reported experiencing increased productivity, increased focus, and new perspective – among other benefits – as a result of what they learned. Get Rob's Weekly Newsletter Never miss an inspiring conversation about compassionate, positive leadership on the Leading with Genuine Care podcast plus other great articles and insights. Click below, and you'll also get a download of his favorite mindful resources. https://www.donothingbook.com/resource-guide Follow Rob Dube on Social Media LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/robdube Facebook: www.facebook.com/rob.dube.1 Twitter: twitter.com/robddube Rob Dube's Website www.donothingbook.com Buy Rob's book, donothing: The Most Rewarding Leadership Challenge You'll Ever Take amzn.to/2y9N1TK
Tomson Darko in slaap val service. Om langzaam bij weg te dommelen. Ik vertel je over: Je airdrop aanzetten in de treinBinnen drie clicks ken je het leven van je medepassagiersVerander daarom de naam van je telefoon. DoeDat nieuwe stationsplein van Utrecht heeft geen bomenMaar wel een eierdoos boven je hoofdVergeetbare mensen die je passeren op het stationZe hebben allemaal een eigen verhaal en eigen gevoelens en ambitiesJohn Koenig's Sondor In de stad ben je nooit alleenVolgens een Duitse filosoof kan een mens niet tegen de prikkels in de stadDaardoor sluit iedereen zich op in zijn eigen bubbeltjeDe buschauffeur begroeten in het dorp waar je vandaan komtIn de stad negeer je chauffeursOverleden mensen uit het nieuws opzoeken via social mediaInbreken in het huis van de overleden overbuurvrouwDe vreemdelingen om je heen stiekem begrijpen door ze te bespiedenLuister de lange versie op petjeaf.com/tomsondarko:- Zes manieren om beter te observeren- Volg deze man- It hurts to be present. Marie Howe (dichter)App of mail me als je iemand (of jezelf) welterusten wil wensen. 06-44796441 of tomson@darkomail.nl.Handjes boven de dekens.Morgen een nieuwe dag.Support the show1) Steun me via eenmalige donatie door je petje-af te nemen.2) Abonneer je op mijn exclusieve privé podcast. Vier lange afleveringen per week via petjeaf.com/tomsondarko 3) Mijn shop vol boeken boeken, posters en tasjes
For a special New Year's treat, we take a tour through the history of the universe with the help of… poets. Our guide is Maria Popova, who writes the popular blog The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), and the poetry is from her project, “The Universe in Verse” — an annual event where poets read poems about science, space, and the natural world. Special thanks to all of our poets, musicians, and performers: Marie Howe, Tracy K. Smith, Rebecca Elson, Joan As Police Woman, Patti Smith, Gautam Srikishan, Zoe Keating, and Emily Dickinson. EPISODE CREDITS: Reported by - Lulu Millerwith help from - Maria PopovaProduced by - Sindhu Gnanasambandanwith mixing help from - Jeremy BloomFact-checking by - Natalie A. Middletonand Edited by - Pat Walters FURTHER READING AND RESEARCH:To dig deeper on this one, we recommendBooks: - Tracy K Smith's “Life On Mars” (https://zpr.io/weTzGTbZyVDT)- Marie Howe's “The Kingdom Of Ordinary Times” (https://zpr.io/Tj9cWTsQxHG3)- Rebecca Elson's “A Responsiblity To Awe” (https://zpr.io/PLR3KL8SfuPR)- Patti Smith's “Just Kids” (https://zpr.io/zM47P5KqqKZx)Music:- Joan As Policewoman (https://joanaspolicewoman.com/)- Gautam Srikishan (https://www.floatingfast.com/)- Zoe Keating (https://www.zoekeating.com/) Internet:- The Marginalian blog post (https://zpr.io/abTuDFH9pfwu) about Vera Rubin- Check out photos of Emily Dickinson's Herbarium (https://zpr.io/XkgTscKBfem6), a book of 424 flowers she picked and pressed and identified while studying the wild botany of Massachusetts.Tracy K. Smith, “My God, It's Full of Stars” from Such Color: New and Selected Poems. Copyright © 2011 by Tracy K. Smith. Read by the author and used with the permission of The Permissions Company, LLC on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org.Fun fact: This episode was inspired by the fact that many Navy ships record the first log entry of the New Year in verse! To see some of this year's poems and learn about the history of the tradition, check out this post by the Naval History and Heritage Command. And, if you want to read a bit from Lulu's interview with sailor poet Lt. Ian McConnaughey, subscribe to our newsletter. Our newsletter comes out every Wednesday. It includes short essays, recommendations, and details about other ways to interact with the show. Sign up (https://radiolab.org/newsletter)! Radiolab is supported by listeners like you. Support Radiolab by becoming a member of The Lab (https://members.radiolab.org/) today. Follow our show on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook @radiolab, and share your thoughts with us by emailing radiolab@wnyc.org. Leadership support for Radiolab's science programming is provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation Initiative, and the John Templeton Foundation. Foundational support for Radiolab was provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
12.5.22 "Writing Kept Hidden" by Carolyn Forché 12.6.22 "Lost Glove" by Charles Simic 12.7.22 "Why My Mother's Teeth Remained in Cuba" by EJ Vega in Paper Dance: 55 Latino Poets 12.8.22 "Provincetown" by Afaa Michael Weaver 12.9.22 "Quartet" by Robert Hass 12.10.22 "sallie ledbetter: a mother's hymn" by Tyehimba Jess 12.11.22 "Saturday at the Border" by Hayden Carruth 12.12.22 from Kyrie by Ellen Bryant Voigt 12.13.22 "The Gate" by Marie Howe 12.14.22 XXXI from The Desert of Lop by Raoul Schrott
This month we are happy to share a selection from Jami Sieber and Kim Rosen's new album Feast of Losses. Their new album takes a deep dive into that sacred space where grief and gratitude meet. Their collaboration offers a transmission of such beauty that it stops the mind and opens the heart! This selection from the album features What the Living Do by Marie Howe, with music by Jami Sieber and spoken word by Kim Rosen. Read about their inspiration for this work on the Gangaji Commnuity Blog. Purchase a download of the complete album at jamisieber.com/feast-of-losses
Aaron and James talk about becoming storytellers -- and survivors.Marie Howe's poem “Gretel, From a Sudden Clearing” was first published in Agni 1987, then in her first book, The Good Thief, selected by Margaret Atwood as a winner in the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series (Persea, 1988). The other poem that Aaron mentions from the book is "Isaac."Watch a reading and conversation with Marie Howe here (~30 min). Poet Sandra Beasley hosts the conversation, which is sponsored by the Howard County (MD) Poetry & Literature Society. Aaron's poem "After My Mother Apologized for My Childhood, We Went to Brunch" can be read here.You can pre-order Aaron's book here or directly through the publisher.You can watch one of the most terrific scenes in Steel Magnolias here. Truvey Jones says, “Laughter through tears is my favorite emotion" at the 8:30 mark. Watch the cast of Steel Magnolias interviewed on the Donahue show in 1989 here (~40 min)You can listen to Ani DiFranco's fabulous recording of her song "Angry Anymore" here. Watch the official music video for Debbie Gibson's “Lost in Your Eyes” official music video here.
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.
Episode 148 Notes and Links to Chen Chen's Work On Episode 148 of The Chills at Will Podcast, Pete welcomes Chen Chen, and the two discuss, among other topics, his experience as a teacher, his early relationships with reading, writing, and multilingualism, those writers and writing communities who continue to inspire and encourage him, muses in various arenas, etymology, and themes like family dynamics, racism, beauty, and anger that anchor his work. Chen Chen is an author, teacher, & editor His second book of poetry, Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency, is out now from BOA Editions. The UK edition will be published by Bloodaxe Books (UK) in October. His debut, When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities (BOA, 2017; Bloodaxe, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award and won the Thom Gunn Award, among other honors. Chen is also the author of five chapbooks, including the forthcoming Explodingly Yours (Ghost City Press, 2023), and the forthcoming book of craft essays, In Cahoots with the Rabbit God (Noemi Press, 2024). His work appears in many publications, including Poetry, Poem-a-Day, and three editions of The Best American Poetry (2015, 2019, & 2021). He has received two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from Kundiman, the National Endowment for the Arts, and United States Artists. He holds an MFA from Syracuse University and a PhD from Texas Tech University. He has taught in UMass Boston's MFA program and at Brandeis University as the 2018-2022 Jacob Ziskind Poet-in-Residence. Currently he is core poetry faculty for the low-residency MFA programs at New England College and Stonecoast. With a brilliant team, he edits the journal Underblong; with Gudetama the lazy egg, he edits the lickety~split. He lives in frequently snowy Rochester, NY with his partner, Jeff Gilbert and their pug, Mr. Rupert Giles. Buy Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency Chen Chen's Website Interview with Chen Chen: “Chinatown Presents: Finding Home with Chen Chen” Interview with Poetry LA from 2017 By Andrew Sargus Klein for Kenyon Review-"On Chen Chen's When I Grow Up, I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities" At about 9:15, Chen responds to Pete asking about how he stays so prolific and creative by describing his processes and the idea of any muses or inspirations At about 11:00, Chen describes “shed[ding] expectations” is or isn't “worthy” of poetry At about 13:10, The two discuss books on craft and Chen gives more background on his upcoming book of craft essays At about 16:10, Chen gives background on the Taiwanese Rabbit God and how his upcoming book was influenced by the idea, especially as presented in Andrew Thomas Huang's Kiss of the Rabbit God At about 18:25, Chen explains his interest in the epistolary form, and how his upcoming work is influenced by Victoria Chang's Dear Memory and Jennifer S. Chang “Dear Blank Space,” At about 22:30, Chen gives background and history in a macro and micro way for the use of the word “queer” and his usage and knowledge of Mandarin At about 26:50, Chen describes the sizable influence of Justin Chin on Chen's own work At about 28:25, Chen describes his early relationship with languages and explores how Mandarin and his parents' Hokkien may influence his writing At about 34:55, Chen outlines what he read and wrote as a kid, including K.A. Applegate and The Animorphs and Phillip Pullman At about 37:50, Chen responds to questions about motivations in reading fantasy and other works At about 38:55, Chen highlights “chill-inducing” works and writers, such as Cunningham's The Hours At about 41:30, Chen shouts Mrs. Kish and other formative writing teachers and talks about his early writing and the importance of “the interior voice” At about 42:45, Pete wonders about how Chen's teaching informs his writing and vice versa At about 45:20, Chen cites Marie Howe's “What the Living Do” and Rick Barot's During the Pandemic as some of his go-to's for teaching in his college classes At about 48:20, Chen responds to Pete's question about teaching his own work At about 49:50, Pete and Chen discuss the idea of muses and the writing community energizing-the two cite Bhanu Kapil and Mary Ruefle and the ways in which their philosophies are centered on mutual communication/conversation At about 55:30, Chen highlights Muriel Leung and an enriching conversation and her unique perspective that led to “I Invite My Parents…” At about 57:45, The two begin discussing Chen's Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency and its seeds At about 1:00:40, Pete cites grackles as a motif, and Chen recounts memories of his time at Texas Tech and the Trump Presidency At about 1:02:45, The two discuss the powerful poem “The School of Fury” and the themes of rage and powerlessness and racism; Pete cites a profound insight from Neema Avashia At about 1:06:45, Pete cites some powerful lines from Chen's work and Chen makes connections At about 1:08:20, Pete rattles off one of the longest titles known to man, “After My White Friends Say…” and Chen discusses ideas of identity and his rationale for the poem's title and structure At about 1:11:30, Chen talks about exercises he does in class with Mary Jean Chan's Flèche At about 1:12:10, The two discuss craft and structure tools used in the collection At about 1:14:25, The two talk about family dynamics and the speaker's mother and her relationship with the speaker's boyfriend At about 1:18:50, Pete cites lines that were powerful for “leaving things unsaid” and Chen expands on ideas of innocence and willful ignorance in his work At about 1:22:30, The two discuss ideas of mortality, including the Pulse tragedy, familial connections, and the series of poems titled “A Small Book of Questions” At about 1:24:10, Ideas of beauty of discussed from Chen's work At about 1:25:15, Chen reads “The School of Fury” and the two discuss it afterwards At about 1:29:40, Chen gives contact info and recommends Boa Editions as a place to buy his book and support independent publishers, and another good organization in Writers and Books, featuring Ampersand Bookstore You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. 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Today's poem is Magdalene—The Seven Devils by Marie Howe.
"No slave can serve two masters… You cannot serve God and wealth.” Luke 16 Jeremiah 8:18--9:1 Psalm 79:1-9 1 Timothy 2:1-7 Luke 16:1-13 I have been dwelling on Jesus' parable about the fired manager over the last few months. In an instant the shock of losing everything seizes him. A sense of inadequacy, worthlessness and humiliation confronts us when we do not have enough to provide for those we love. This terror may be completely foreign to you, it may have come and gone in different stages of your life – or you may be in the grips of this fear now and have no idea how to ever escape from it. We often talk about inequality without spelling out what it really means. In our society we tolerate a greater amount of insecurity and fear than in other advanced democracies. Not having adequate healthcare, housing, food, education and leisure time creates terrible and unnecessary suffering for millions. In America racism has always been part of this story. Treating some people as less than fully human has made us callous to the pain of others. People often ask me a simple question that I never answer straightforwardly. “Why do your parents live in Florida?” The reason quite simply is that during the last years of his employment a younger woman was being abused by my father's boss. My dad publicly stood up for her and as a result lost his job and the pension benefits that he desperately needed in his retirement. For every remaining year of his life he will continue to pay a substantial price for acting righteously. Their small Florida town is a cheap place to live. Jesus' story is similarly about a turning point in someone's life. It is about a man forced to look back at his past as he faces an uncertain future. A manager caught squandering his boss' wealth gets fired. Afraid that he will fall into poverty, he acts quickly. Before the owner can get the word out, the manager cancels his clients' debts in the hope that they may one day help him. It seems strange but the owner regards this behavior as clever. Jesus agrees. He says, “for the children of this age are more shrewd in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light” (Lk. 16). Jesus goes on, “I tell you make friends for yourselves by means of dishonest wealth.” Augustine, the fourth century African saint writes, “I can't believe this story came from the lips of our Lord.” We agree and immediately set to work explaining it, justifying it, domesticating Jesus so that he won't interrupt our life. But Jesus will not sit down and be silent. Perhaps we feel offended, because Jesus says, “be like that” manager when we believe we are better than that. If we were laid off, we would not walk out with the office furniture, or give away company property to win friends cheaply. We long for a simple explanation of this story that will not complicate our life. Jesus however does not care about this. He passionately desires that we will return to God. Scholars want the same kind of simple answer that we do. They explain the story away. Some call it hyperbole, a kind of exaggeration that Jesus uses to get our attention. Others suggest that the owner is a first century crime boss and that this manager robs the rich to give to the poor. One scholar writes that the steward gives away his regular commission. Each of these explanations might make us feel more comfortable, but I believe that Jesus is challenging us. Three things particularly stand out about his words this morning. Jesus speaks about how to treat money and the future. Jesus talks about money more than you and I do. I read somewhere that in the gospel of Luke one out of every seven of Jesus' sayings has to do with money. Jesus seems consistently more concerned about it than about friendship, sex, marriage, politics, government, war, family values, truthfulness or church. Jesus more wisely than most of us recognizes the power of money. I wonder if people who believe only in material things, but do not believe in God, talk more about money that spiritual people. Jesus would say that both are wrong, both materialists and Christians underestimate the effect that money has on our soul. Materialists fail to recognize the existence of the ultimate. Christians fail to see how money is related to it. Jesus says some radical things about money. He understands the temptation to live for accumulating money and the things that it can buy. With regard to the gospel and money, there is one thing I am sure of and one that I am not. I'm not certain about this part, but it seems to me that money in the Gospel of Luke is always tainted. Luke calls it mammon. This word includes everything that you own that has cash value. There is something already corrupt about mammon. We all tell stories to justify why we have money and someone else does not. We all may be equal in God's eyes, but money substantiates the difference between a person with power and a person without it. Part of me wants to resist this, to believe that money is simply neutral, that its goodness depends only on what we spend it on. But I think Luke's point is that this view assumes that money has no history before we possess it. In our culture we have so many self-serving stories that justify our wealth. We often associate it with moral virtue (as if it mostly came from our hard work, intelligence, education, competence, etc.). By warning us about money, Luke reminds us of the truth. All we have and all we own and all we are comes from God. This is not at all to say that we should try to be poor. Money can solve problems. The vast majority of problems could be resolved by a particular amount of money. Unfortunately the solutions that money buys never last. Our problems traced back to their roots are ultimately spiritual problems. This brings me to the second point about money, the thing that I am more sure about. I believe that money connects the spiritual and the material. I know it is radical, but with Jesus, I am convinced that we can use our money to genuinely please God. Whether money is inevitably tainted as I believe Luke claims, or if it is neutral as my economics professors believed, money makes ministry possible. We can do God's work with money. We can make an amazing difference in the lives of the poor, the sick, the lonely and the spiritually destitute through our use of money. True wealth comes not from what we receive or own but from what we give away. Grace Cathedral with its beauty, its history as one of the oldest churches in Western America may seem as close to permanent as you can get in this world of change. But this is a fragile institution. Every year a large number of people have to give a large amount of money in order for us to keep going. There are not many places that will make better use of your gift. Organized together we visit the sick, the lonely and the elderly. We teach children about God and introduce them to adults who they can depend on. God changes lives here. Maybe your money is honest, maybe it's not, but it does do God's work at Grace Cathedral. The final thing that I believe Jesus says to us through this story has to do with time. I think faith can make some people passive. They reason that since God has all the power, what they do doesn't matter. Jesus emphasizes that this is a parable about a turning point. The manager feels the same kind of pressure that we feel here today. But instead of responding with nostalgia for a more stable past, or by wallowing in his present misery, the manager acts decisively. Jesus applauds this. The American poet Marie Howe wrote a poem about her brother dying of AIDS called “The Last Time.” “The last time we had dinner together in a restaurant / … he leaned forward // and took my two hands in his hands and said, / I'm going to die soon. I want you to know that. // And I said, I think I do know. / And he said, What surprises me is that you don't. // And I said, I do. And he said, What? / And I said, Know that you're going to die. // And he said, No, I mean that you are.” When it comes to money, most of us act as if we don't know that we will die. Jesus' story is not just about how we are spending our money, but how we are spending our lives. Perhaps his deeper point is that this world, in which we spend ourselves to impress others or to protect our ego, is passing away. In this life we have a singular opportunity to spend ourselves shrewdly for the sake of God's Kingdom. The story of the unjust manager may not make complete sense to us yet. But this parable reminds us that a feeling of entitlement and superiority comes along with our money. This can isolate us from God, and make us blind to the needs of others. Jesus' story also shows us the connection between the spiritual and the material, that God is more pleased by what we give than what we get. Finally it awakens us to the truth that Jesus' promise is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow. You cannot buy the future. It will never belong to you. But you can act confidently because the future belongs to God. I think this is what my father did when he helped his co-worker. I wonder what effect his simple sacrifice has had in her life over the years. This is what Jesus himself did. Even on the way to the cross he trusted God completely. No home on earth will ever feel completely comfortable or safe because we were made to always draw nearer to our creator. Another says that the manager expected the owner to check the books and that the owner is glad for the positive public relations that this debt relief would bring. The escaped slave Frederick Douglass writes that, “You may not get all that you pay for in this world but you pay for all that you get.” Quoted in Frederick Streets, “Accountability,” The Christian Century, 3/17/99. If you go to a therapist, they'll help you find your strengths and adjust for your weaknesses. They'll give you books to read and have conversations about how you feel. If you go to Jesus, he tells you something totally different. Jesus says trust in God, because the future belongs to him. Marie Howe What the Living Do (New York: W.W. Norton, 1998).
Join us as we consider a pack of poems by Pier Wright, and the complexities of pacing, prosody, and narrative poems with strange and powerful images: memory, tenderness, a “magnificent young moose,” & the magic of being caught in the act. Kathleen “Gratitude” Volk Miller, champion explicator and advocate for gratitude and neuroplasticity, analyzes the “small pointy hats of hope” as lovers entwine. Jason “Gorgeous Vectors” Schneiderman loves sticky collisions. Gabby and Alex and the crew ponder happy endings and surprises that feel like “Objective correlatives,” slushies. Spoiler: Marion “Sunshine” Wrenn makes an appearance from future past, or future perfect, or…something like that. It all makes a great story. Slushies, what is your “embarrassing at the moment but will be funny later” story? This episode is brought to you by one of our sponsors, Wilbur Records, who kindly introduced us to the artist A.M.Mills, whose song “Spaghetti with Loretta” now opens our show. Pier Wright attended Kalamazoo College where he was influenced by the poetry of Con Hilberry and later by that of Diane Seuss. The first poetry reading he ever attended, and has never forgotten, was Robert Bly reading from Silence In The Snowy Fields. He received a Post-Baccalaureate & Masters degree from The Art Institute of Chicago. As a student he discovered Fairfield Porter, Monet's large Water Lilly paintings at at Musée de l'Orangerie, Terry Winters, Mary Heilmann, Philip Guston's late paintings, Giotto, Noguchi, etc.. Influences include Prayer Wheels, Marie Howe, Chris Martin, Peter Matthiessen, Stephen Dunn, John Cage, Ornette Coleman, Joni Mitchell, Phyllida Barlow, the ceramic work of Toshiko Takaezu, and, most recently, the writings of C.D. Wright. While living as a hermit for several years at the end of a peninsula in N Michigan he began working with Michael Delp. He has been the director of Wright Gallery since 2002 and is recently married. Socials: Instagram is pierdwright, Facebook is Pier Wright, and website is pierwright.net (paintings) Driveway Poem we arrived early at the house by the subshop after the bar closed it was cold and being new at love the only way we thought to keep warm was by undressing completely, with great urgency in the front seat of the Ford then my foot got stuck in the horn just as our friends began arriving we couldn't have left even if we'd wanted to with all the cars having parked behind us so we went to the party anyway me with my shoes untied you unfolding yourself from the car like a magnificent young moose the night sky on one side of you and the stars over there the way you had of entering a room back then as though by just walking the muddy path to the stoop a lotus popped out Gratitude what was once impotent in me remains in this fiery house on a small lot, crap lawn every roughed grief the small pointy hats of hope red hibiscus bushes wilting in a row the heat slicked fur of a sleeping hound a house made not of things but the relationship between things such as the desire two bodies have when flying blindly toward each other at incredible speed so, when I ask if I can make you breakfast what I mean is, I am thankful you are finally here The Hibiscus, Key West we shared thin, raw, slices of tuna, conch salad, cracked stone crab claws, drank dark rum, tripped over the noisy chickens on our way to your room. drank more rum from plastic cups, then a table broke, the matching chair in pieces, waltzing together across worn linoleum like aging Tantric porn stars. waking to Cuban coffee, I remember eggs, while waiting for a bus to Miami you wrote your number on a napkin. I tried calling several times, a memory persistent as the fly banging on this kitchen door screen. Mother's Day what a day in the garden pulling out the knotweed the clover and spurge forgiving you for leaving so soon the way they cut your head open I recall a dream I find you in a dumpster it's hot your bones are missing and you can't get out just now before dark beside the thistle and burdock your cheeks wet I ask if you are hungry I chop potatoes eggs olives how tender the early dandelion greens are tossed with sea salt bitter with lemon drizzled with the good oil I keep for company
World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.
World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.
World events including the war in Ukraine and our years of Covid 19 isolation have made for an unexpected and harsh reality. James Crews, author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry and is the editor of the best-selling anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD - hopes to offer some lightness through poetry. In Crews' own words: "These poems retrained me to seek out and find connection at a time when so many of us have grown more isolated..." Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan.
April 29, 2022 - "The Gate" By Marie Howe, Read By Janice Soler by The Desmond-Fish Public Library & The Highlands Current, hosted by Ryan Biracree
Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Marie Howe is the author of four volumes of poetry: Magdalene: Poems (W.W. Norton, 2017); The Kingdom of Ordinary Time (W.W. Norton, 2009); What the Living Do (1997); and The Good Thief (1988). She is also the co-editor of a book of essays, In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic (1994). Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and The Partisan Review, among others.From http://www.mariehowe.com/home. For more information about Marie Howe:“What the Living Do”: https://wwnorton.com/books/What-the-Living-Do/“Marie Howe”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marie-howe“Poet Marie Howe on ‘What the Living Do' After Loss”: https://www.npr.org/2014/04/25/306528499/poet-marie-howe-on-what-the-living-do-after-loss
James Crews is the author of 4 prize-winning collections of poetry. He is also the editor of the best-selling poetry anthology, HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD. His new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith, and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser and Linda Hogan.
Following the success and momentum of his best-selling anthology "HOW TO LOVE THE WORLD" - poet James Crews' new collection, THE PATH TO KINDNESS, offers more than 100 deeply felt and relatable poems by international and well-known writers including Joy Harjo (the current U.S. Poet Laureate), Julia Alvarez, Marie Howe, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Ross Gay, and Ada Limón, as well as new and emerging voices. Featured Black writers include January Gill O'Neil, Tracy K. Smith and Cornelius Eady. Native American writers include Kimberly Blaeser, and Linda Hogan. About the author: JAMES CREWS' work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Sun Magazine, Ploughshares, and The New Republic, as well as on former US poet laureate Ted Kooser's American Life in Poetry newspaper column. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a PhD in Writing & Literature from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and is the author of four collections of award-winning poetry, including The Book of What Stays (Prairie Schooner Prize and Foreword Book of the Year Citation, 2011), Telling My Father (Cowles Prize, 2017), Bluebird, and Every Waking Moment. He is also the editor of several anthologies of poetry: Healing the Divide: Poems of Kindness and Connection; and How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope. He leads Mindfulness & Writing retreats online and throughout the country, and works as a creative coach with groups and individuals. He lives with his husband, Brad Peacock, in Shaftsbury, Vermont. To sign up for weekly poems and prompts, visit jamescrews.net. https://www.instagram.com/james.crews.poet/ https://www.instagram.com/storeypub/ https://www.facebook.com/crewspoet https://www.facebook.com/storeypublishing https://twitter.com/StoreyPub --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/tntbsmedia/message
In the words of Marie Howe's beautiful poem that is our source this week, “whatever leads to joy, to more life, to less worry”. Can we learn to live this way in the midst of it all - attending to joy in its deepest sense, in the way it brings us into contact with what is most real? And is there a way to not pile worry on top of everything that it already matters for us to take care of? This week's Turning Towards Life is a conversation about the faithfulness it takes to lean into our lives, and to face their realness in doing so. It's hosted as always by Lizzie Winn and Justin Wise of Thirdspace. This is Turning Towards Life, a weekly live 30 minute conversation hosted by Thirdspace in which Justin Wise and Lizzie Winn dive deep into big questions of human living. Find us on FaceBook to watch live and join in the lively conversation on this episode. You can find videos of every episode, and more about the project on the Turning Towards Life website, and you can also watch and listen on Instagram, YouTube, and as a podcast on Apple, Google and Spotify. You can find out more about our Professional Coaching Course, which we talk a little about in this episode, on the Thirdspace website here. Here's our source for this week: My Dead Friends I have begun, when I'm weary and can't decide an answer to a bewildering question to ask my dead friends for their opinion and the answer is often immediate and clear. Should I take the job? Move to the city? Should I try to conceive a child in my middle age? They stand in unison shaking their heads and smiling—whatever leads to joy, they always answer, to more life and less worry. I look into the vase where Billy's ashes were — it's green in there, a green vase, and I ask Billy if I should return the difficult phone call, and he says, yes. Billy's already gone through the frightening door, whatever he says I'll do. Marie Howe Photo by Sergey Pesterev on Unsplash
Recorded by Marie Howe for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on February 22, 2022. www.poets.org
I have always been a poetry lover and yet Kim Rosen's book, 'Saved by a Poem,' has dramatically deepened my relationship to poetry. This touching conversation with Kim echoed within me for days after. Kim describes poetry as, 'the power of the word meeting the language of the soul.' In an uncertain world, 'Saved by a poem' is an emphatic call to cultivate the ever renewable resources of the heart. Through poetry Kim believes, the unspeakable can be spoken, the unendurable endured, and the miraculous shared. I encourage you to find a comfortable and quiet place to listen to this conversation where we share poetry from Rumi, Mary Oliver, Leonard Cohen, Stanley Kunitz, Marie Howe, Emily Dickenson and Jason Shinder. Enjoy the heart opening ride!
Welcome to Season 5 of Between the Worlds, in this episode we go deep into Winter Solstice, otherwise known as Yule, the witches' celebration of the darkness. Winter Solstice is the holiday where the new and old meet. It's both the holiday of the Ancient Crone, and the holiday that celebrates the conception and the birth of the divine child, the rebirth of the sun.We'll be talking about the astrology of the season, the mytho-poetics of the Yule, tarot correspondences, and rituals you can do to make sure your longest night a magical one.Join us! To find out more about our workshops either scroll down or visit our website. www.betweentheworldspodcast.com/shopTo register for Amanda's Solstice ritual, go to: https://bit.ly/3yxy9gqTo leave a review of the podcast on iTunes, open your Apple Podcasts APP and scroll down to the comments. Or you can try to click this link (sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't depending on your set up).Find us on Instagram at:Podcast: @BetweentheworldspodcastAmanda: @OracleofLACarolyn: @CarolynPennypackerRiggs REFERENCES FOR THIS EPISODE:H. Byron Ballard, a pagan book about the Wheel of the Year, “Seasons of a Magical Life.”Demetra George on “Planetary Joys,” https://demetra-george.com/blog/planetary-joy-moon-third-house/Tai Gooden, a great resource on the Yule holiday meaning. "The curious past and present day importance of Yule", https://nerdist.com/article/yule-curious-past-and-present-day-importance/Marie Howe, "What the Living Do" – the poem from the episode.Mark Snyder on Monarch Butterfly Migration. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/18/monarch-butterflies-california-migration-begins-hope-big-numbers/5864309001/Acyuta-bhava Das at Nightlight Astrology is a great resource on the meaning of the solstices in astrology. https://nightlightastrology.com/Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown, "Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World." For their work on Positive Disintegration and the ecological crisis.Starhawk's book, "The Spiral Dance," is the source for the Solstice chant Amanda used in the episode. This chant is from the work of the Reclaiming Collective. The chant goes: "_ is lost to the night. _ is lost to the night... to fall and rise again....to die and be reborn. What more must we lose to the night? ... The light was born, And the light has died. I surrender this year to the night." (If you like this chant we highly recommend grabbing a copy of this book. *********************************GREAT WITCHY GIFTS: OUR BTW WORKSHOPS Between the Worlds workshops are available for download and make great gifts. We've got Candle Magick, we've got Empress Love Magick, we've got Ace of Swords protection magick and more. CLICK THIS LINK TO SHOPYou can also get your favorite witch a yearly subscription to our coven -- the gift that keeps on giving throughout the year, where you get workshops, monthly tarot studio classes, and lots of other goodies for a super reasonable price.Become a Between the Worlds Weird Circle Subscriber, click here. **********************************Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates Garcia, & Buy Her BookTo sign up for Amanda's Solstice Ritual on 12/21/21 7pm PST or find out more CLICK HERE.To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.To sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's FacebookTo book an appointment with Amanda go to www.oracleoflosangeles.com **********************************MIND YOUR PRACTICE PODCASTMind Your Practice - Carolyn's podcast with arts consultant and author of Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens - is geared towards artists and writers looking for strategies and support to build their projects and practices (plus loving pep talks).There's even a club - “Homework Club” - which offers creative people support and strategies for keeping their projects and practices a priority with monthly webinars, worksheets, live QnA's, optional accountability pods, and ACTUAL HOMEWORK (that you'll never be graded on. Ever!)You can visit MindYourPractice.com for more details or listen wherever you stream Between the Worlds. **********************************Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs**********************************Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.**CONTRIBUTORS:Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.
Oh, the coming-out-of-nowhere moment when, nothing happens no what-have-I-to-do-today-list maybe half a moment the rush of traffic stops. The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be slows to silence, the white cotton curtains hanging still.
“Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.” - Marie Howe“Death is our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love… Life always says Yes and No simultaneously. Death (I implore you to believe) is the true Yea-sayer. It stands before eternity and says only: Yes.” - Rainer Maria RilkeLINKS:Buy Marie Howe's What the Living Do: https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393318869Buy Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies & The Sonnets to Orpheus here: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/154356/duino-elegies-and-the-sonnets-to-orpheus-by-rainer-maria-rilke-edited-and-translated-by-stephen-mitchell/Check out Tyler Bright Hilton's work here: https://www.tylerbrighthilton.com and here: https://www.instagram.com/tyler_bright_hilton/Caddis Reading Glasses who are PRO AGING - YAY!: https://caddislife.comSunglass Museum: https://www.sunglassmuseum.comPrive Revaux: https://priverevaux.comCheck out my website here: www.robynoneil.comShop my shop here: www.robynoneil.com/shopMe on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyn_oneil/?hl=en
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Singularity by Marie Howe - Điểm kì dị Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody needed a bed, or food or money — nobody hiding in the school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are kept. For every atom belonging to me as good Belongs to you. Remember? There was no Nature. No them. No tests to determine if the elephant grieves her calf or if the coral reef feels pain. Trashed oceans don't speak English or Farsi or French; would that we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when earth was sky, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. Can molecules recall it? what once was? before anything happened? No I, no We, no one. No was No verb no noun yet only a tiny tiny dot brimming with is is is is is All everything home
Accompanying blog post: https://intrepidenglish.co.uk/toms-top-10-poetry-must-reads-part-2/In Part 2 of Tom's Top 10 Poetry Must-Reads, Intrepid English Teacher Tom introduces five more must-read poetry collections from Marie Howe, Donika Kelly, Pascale Petit, Mary Oliver and Danez Smith. If you haven't already, make sure to check out Part 1 right here.____________________________________________________________Find out more about Intrepid English here:https://intrepidenglish.co.uk/Follow us on social media:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/intrepidenglishInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/intrepidenglish/?hl=enTwitter: https://twitter.com/IntrepidenglishLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intrepid-english/Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com.mx/intrepidenglish/
In this episode, we talk about to-do lists, adulting and the sound of the cooker in the background before we start reading to each other. As Madhuri reads from an article by Tishani Doshi "That Thing In Your Belly", the conversation enters into the rituals of grieving, its shapes and sizes that sit with us. Rutika toys around the idea of belonging as she reads a poem by Marie Howe called "Singularity". When it comes to poems, how can there be one? So there is a surprise poem by Anna Akhmatova towards the end. Tune in to find out. You can write to Rutika on lettersthathug@gmail.com and you can write to Madhuri on adwanimadhuri@gmail.com.
The power of Marie Howe's empathetic imagination flames out in this poem about a simple trip to the grocery store.
Patty Larkin is a monster on the guitar. Although starting on the piano, after her uncle gave her a guitar it was all over for young Patty. The main appeal of the instrument was the privacy in which one could play. She holed up for hours playing. In high school she furthered experimented with different ways to play, while working on her singing and writing. She moved to Boston in the 70's to study jazz guitar. She played in several rock bands on electric, but switched her focus to acoustic in the 80's which broadened her range. She rediscovered jazz styles and studied the work of Richard Thompson among others. Around that time, she became an integral part of the New England Folk circuit along with people like Bill Morrissey, Jonatha Brooke and Martin Sexton. For decades Patty Larkin has been a household name within the folk world as she continues to wow us with her intricate style and sophisticated work that has a particular high level humor within her writing and delivery.Patty's latest is a record that sets poetry to her original music. Work by Billy Collins, Natalie Diaz, Nick Flynn, Marie Howe all make their way onto Bird in a Cage. In our conversation, she discusses why she was intrigued to combine music and poetry. She would work the practice of reading poetry out loud into her mornings in order to inspire herself into her day. This left her amazed enough to dedicate an entire record to the process. The project also happened to be the last collaboration Patty completed with the much revered and loved producer, Mike Dennen, who sadly died in 2018. She and Mike co-produced Bird in a Cage and she speaks of their connection and how they would work together. Also, she has the most epic lightning round answer to "Where is the most beautiful place you've ever visited," so I hope you listen all the way to the end! Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
This guided meditation takes you on a journey through the galaxy, wherever you want to go, while in the safety of an orb. Julie Potker leads you through this guided meditation ending with a reading of the poem, "Singularity" by Marie Howe,which was composed in tribute to Stephen Hawking. SINGULARITY by Marie Howe Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody needed a bed, or food or money — nobody hiding in the school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are kept. For every atom belonging to me as good Belongs to you. Remember? There was no Nature. No them. No tests to determine if the elephant grieves her calf or if the coral reef feels pain. Trashed oceans don’t speak English or Farsi or French; would that we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. Can molecules recall it? what once was? before anything happened? No I, no We, no one. No was No verb no noun only a tiny tiny dot brimming with is is is is is All everything home. Get the latest on mindfulness and meditation by subscribing to Julie Potiker's YouTube channel and Facebook page at Mindful Methods for Life. You can learn about mindfulness at www.MindfulMethodsForLife.com and also in Julie's newly released book, "Life Falls Apart, But You Don't Have To: Mindful Methods For Staying Calm In The Midst Of Chaos", available on Amazon.com. Her podcast is "Balanced Mind with Julie Potiker", available on iTunes, iHeart and other podcast platforms.
Happy New Year! It's been a few weeks, and we're dipping into 2021 tonight with a non-topical episode featuring updates, zines, and predictions for the New Year.Show Notes and LinksErasable Patreon404 Magazine on EtsyPencil Revolution on EtsySteve Earle's J.T.Ken Burns' Civil WarMarie Howe, What the Living DoMaggie Smith, Good BonesZen and the Art of ArcheryMaggie Smith the poet on TwitterFrom a Certain Point of ViewHalt and Catch Fire)Whatcha Mean, What's a ZineDogs of BerlinParker Jotter XL Brand Name PencilsAnother Evening at HomeBullet Journal 2.0Your HostsJohnny GamberPencil Revolution@pencilutionAndy WelfleWoodclinched@awelfleTim Wasem@TimWasem
Sometimes you're just minding your own business and a poem jumps out from the bushes and surprises you. In this episode I share a poem that did that to me: "My Mother's Body" by Marie Howe.
In today's Pickle Jar we are joined by the brilliant Hannah Lowe. She is a poet, memoirist and academic. Her first poetry collection Chick (Bloodaxe, 2013) won the Michael Murphy Memorial Award for Best First Collection. Her family memoir Long Time, No See (Periscope, 2015) featured as Radio 4’s Book of the Week. Her second collection, Chan, is also published by Bloodaxe. Her latest brand new collection is expected out in 2021. She undertook her AHRC-funded PhD in Creative Writing at Newcastle University, and now lectures in Creative Writing at Brunel University. Hannah is blessing us with a Marie Howe poem called 'What the living do.' You can read the poem here - https://poets.org/poem/what-living-do
The conclusion of our conversation with poet Marie Howe.
The first part of our conversation with Marie Howe, former poet laureate of New York.
How can creative practice become a political act? In this episode of Emerging Form, we speak with poet, playwright, memoirist and lyricist Alison Luterman. We talk in depth about her musical The Shyest Witch--about how, when you work in so many genres, a form might suggest itself; how the project evolved from being about the 2016 election into broader feminist themes, how she worked with input from collaborators and actors; and how she, too, is evolving as an artist, learning a new skill even as she is at the top of her game in other creative realms. We also talk about artworks that inspired her, including Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and how she deals with her political work becoming a lightning rod for contentious responses--“If I’m not going to speak up now, when am I going to?”Alison Luterman's four books of poetry are The Largest Possible Life; See How We Almost Fly; Desire Zoo, and In the Time of Great Fires. Her poems and stories have appeared in The Sun, Rattle, Salon, Prairie Schooner, Nimrod, The Atlanta Review, Tattoo Highway, and elsewhere. She has written an e-book of personal essays, Feral City, half a dozen plays, a song cycle We Are Not Afraid of the Dark, as well as two musicals, The Chain and The Shyest Witch. Alison performs with the Oakland-based improvisation troupe Wing It! and has given writing workshops all over the country, including at Omega and Esalen Institutes. She teaches memoir at The Writing Salon in Berkeley, and is available for private coaching in writing or creativity, both in-person or on-line. Show notes:Marie Howe on On Being/Write ten thingsWriting Naturally by David PetersenAlison LutermanAlison’s poem, “Some Girls” in the New York Times MagazineA sneak peak of the music video from Alison’s musical-in-progress The Shyest Witch. (Alison notes: The witch, Rebekah Vega, had to be their own cameraperson and used a tripod while filming.) This is a public episode. Get access to private episodes at emergingform.substack.com/subscribe
Episode 46 of Rewrite Radio features a collection of excerpts from our second season of the podcast, curated and edited together by CCFW media producerJon Brown and program coordinator Natalie Rowland. Join us as we journey through past Festival sessions in an exploration of stories as service. Speakers in order of appearance in this episode: Gene Luen Yang (2014) Richard Rodriguez (2010) Li-Young Lee & Nick Samaras (2004) Marie Howe (2018) Kwame Alexander & Nate Marshall (2018) Jacqueline Woodson (2004) Madeleine L'Engle (1996) Dorothy Fortenberry (2018) Elie Wiesel (1998)
Do you sometimes want to wake up to the singularity we once were? so compact nobody needed a bed, or food or money — nobody hiding in the school bathroom or home alone pulling open the drawer where the pills are kept. For every atom belonging to me as good Belongs to you. Remember? There was no Nature. No them. No tests to determine if the elephant grieves her calf or if the coral reef feels pain. Trashed oceans don't speak English or Farsi or French; would that we could wake up to what we were — when we were ocean and before that to when sky was earth, and animal was energy, and rock was liquid and stars were space and space was not at all — nothing before we came to believe humans were so important before this awful loneliness. Can molecules recall it? what once was? before anything happened? No I, no We, no one. No was No verb no noun only a tiny tiny dot brimming with is is is is is All everything home
The simplicity and obviousness of life stays undiscovered most of the time.
TC Tolbert shares recordings that express a willingness to be deeply present, including a poem by Akilah Oliver that records intimacy with grief (“Selections from the Putterer’s Notebook and ‘An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet’”), a poem by Rigoberto González that brings exquisite specificity to a migrant’s narrative (“The Bordercrosser’s Pillowbook”), and a Marie Howe poem that demonstrates the power of staying with a constraint for as long as you can (“Magdalene—The Seven Devils”). Tolbert closes by reading “Dear Melissa,” an epistolary poem to an earlier self.Listen to the full recordings of Oliver, González, and Howe reading for the Poetry Center on Voca:Akilah Oliver (2010)Rigoberto González (2010)Marie Howe (2012)Listen to a 2011 reading by TC Tolbert on Voca.
In the life of faith, how do we live with urgency but not hurry? As Christians, we are called to be people who are tired of waiting. We are also called to repent of our frenzied hurry and our glorification of productivity. This conversation explores the life and ministry of Jesus, the poetry of Marie Howe, and the activism of Dorothy Day as we make sense of how to live into Ordinary Time during a season that is anything but ordinary.
In the poem, Housekeeping, by David Harris, a patient struggles with what it means to be saved. Read by Seema Yasmin. The purpose of this podcast is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional medical care, and is not intended for use in the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this podcast express their own opinions, experience, and conclusions. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity, or therapy should not be construed as an ASCO endorsement. Welcome to JCO's Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology, brought to you by the ASCO Podcast Network, a collection of nine programs covering a range of educational and scientific content, and offering enriching insight into the world of cancer care. You can find all of the shows, including this one, at podcast.asco.org. Housekeeping by David Harris. I've been clearing out my closets so that my husband won't have to afterward. She wiped her eyes on her hospital gown. I imagined her at home, pulling out hangers and holding up clothes to her wasted body, choosing what to save and what to throw away. And by save, I mean leave behind for her husband afterward. Me imagining her imagining him, pulling out hangers, loosely dangling clothes, a Christmas sweater, the jeans he liked, a scarf, a blouse. Him wondering what he is supposed to do with a pink blouse. Should he throw it away or bury it in some unsorted pile, half forgotten, or save it, leaving it hanging in the closet of their bedroom? I am talking to her about CPR now. About what we can save and what we can't. And by save, I mean prolong. And she turns to me and asks what she is supposed to do with the word terminal. Afterward, after latex gloves are peeled off hands, after the bag is found and zipped around her quiet body, after all the things I said or didn't say, this is what we save. Her hospital gown, unbuttoned, washed clean, folded onto itself, with thousands of other gowns. With me today is Dr. David Harris, a palliative care physician at Cleveland Clinic. Dave, welcome to our podcast. Thank you, Lidia. I'm grateful to be here. It's great to have you. You're the author of a poem that we recently published called Housekeeping. Before we start to talk about your poem, tell me a little bit about what you enjoy reading and perhaps what's on your nightstand right now. Sure. I've been reading some nonfiction work on behavioral economics by Predictably Irrational or Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. But I should also probably talk about poetry that I like reading, since the poem in JCO was published. Two of my favorite poets, and if you read my poem and you want to find more like it, would be Mary Oliver and Marie Howe. And if you're looking for a place to start with those poets, you could look for What The Living Do by Marie Howe or The Fourth Sign of the Zodiac by Mary Oliver. So training does one need to have to read and appreciate poetry? Oh, that's a great question. I think when I was in high school, I kind of got scared away from poetry because it felt like something that I really didn't understand and that you had to have a lot of training to read and appreciate. But I don't think it necessarily has to be that way. I find poetry really nice because it's short, and if you find authors that keep their poetry accessible, you can just read it and spend a moment appreciating it, and go on with your day. So I'd say you don't really need a lot of training other than just being a human being and bringing to the poem the experiences that you've had in your life. I love that. And with that, let's talk a little bit about the poem that you wrote and that I've had an opportunity to read and love it, and that is Housekeeping. There's a line here that drew me right in, and that is the line, a very simple line, me imagining her imagining him. It seemed to me that that's almost the perfect definition of empathy. Is that what you had in mind? The ability to connect and just imagine what it's like to be somebody else, to see the world through the mindset of another person? Yeah. Thank you, Lidia. That's exactly what I was going for. I mean, I think that this poem is mostly in the speaker's imagination. The inspiration for the poetry was the quote at the beginning of the poem, which was told to me by a patient. I'd been cleaning out my closets so that my husband won't have to afterward. And I think we've all had patients tell us something, and after we leave the room, we just pause and say, like, wow, I can't believe that that conversation just happened. And, you know, what a strange, and meaningful, and powerful thing that patient said to me. So that was the inspiration for the poem. And then for the rest of the poem, I was just sort of imagining different scenes or different thoughts that were inspired by that line. So in the poem, you talked about having the difficult conversation with a patient, and you state this in the present tense. I am talking to her about CPR now. And then you bring us also to the world of the very practical task of having this conversation and imagining a time when the patient is no longer present, her death. And then you have this parallel process where you describe all the tasks, the very practical housekeeping tasks, of what happens after death. The sorting of possessions and the dispatching of the body. Tell us a little bit more about how you thought about putting these two things together, and so compactly and beautifully. Oh, thank you, Lidia. Yeah. I think as I was writing the poem, I began to think more and more about those material pieces of our lives, that they're of special significance when we're thinking about end of life. And that came from the patient who was going through her closets and holding out clothes and thinking, you know, am I going to wear this before I die or can I throw this away, and thinking about how much clothing means to people. And then I thought about the hospital gowns and how much of a contrast that is, how impersonal that is compared to what people wear in their day to day lives. That sort of focus on these material possessions and these tasks that can be kind of mundane at times came out as I was writing the poem. And there is this parallel, also, about what we do as physicians when we are looking after patients who are so ill. There are some very practical things, but then there are conversations that have to do with the ultimate abstraction, which is imagining not being here. I think the title grounds us in the same way that some of these tasks, perhaps, ground us in our day to day world. I also thought that it was very interesting that you used the word afterwards twice, including leading with it in the last stanza. And I imagine that, perhaps, as you were thinking of a title, another title could have been Afterward. Yeah. So does that capture some of your process? Yeah. Afterwards was a rough draft title. You guessed it. Because I think that so much of the poem is about thinking of the future or we're thinking about what's going to happen next. I think I chose Housekeeping instead because one of the things that I really am interested in in art and in talking with patients is the importance of daily lives, or the importance of these kind of mundane tasks that we all go through. And how, for people who have cancer and are struggling to maintain quality of life, sometimes doing the laundry or cooking suddenly becomes really meaningful and important to them, or maybe even housekeeping becomes meaningful and important to them. So that title felt like there were more layers to it, which is why I chose it. You know, as I was reading this, and I read that you were imagining your patient imagining her husband's grief and her husband's reaction to her passing, I was imagining what you, as the clinician in this situation, were imagining and feeling. It was very impactful to me. And there's something about how simple the lines are and the language is that really drew me in. Tell me a little bit more about your feeling and what this kind of an encounter with a patient does to you as palliative care physician. Thank you for asking me that, Lidia. You know, this meant a lot to me. And after I left the room after having this conversation with the patient, I was struck by how profound that moment was and how meaningful having those conversations with patients is for me. And part of the purpose of writing this poem and publishing it is to share that experience. I think most of us in oncology and palliative care go into the field because we look for moments like this and we appreciate moments like this. But also, day to day life can kind of make us blind to these things with all the paperwork we have to do and all of the red tape. And when I talk to physicians who are feeling burned out, I notice that they don't really bring up moments like this anymore, and I feel like they're not noticing them the way they used to. So noticing moments like this and appreciating them helps me from being burned out, and I'm hoping that people will read this poem and sort of be able to be resensitized to those moments in their practice. That's a lovely thought. I also would add that one of the themes that we find in the submissions we receive to Art of Oncology is this very sincere desire to honor a patient. And I read that also in your line. Yeah. I mean, this patient has passed away, but they've made such an impact on me, and it feels like I need to do something to remember them. That's part of what made me write this piece as well. Well, thank you for sharing all of that with us. And I hope our readers go back and read your beautiful poem, Housekeeping, over and over. Let me finish by just asking you a little about the process of writing. You-- are you a repetitive writer? Do you have time set aside to write, or do you write when you're inspired or when it calls you? That's a great question. And I feel like people who have previously been on your podcast have said something similar. But for me, I have these moments, and it feels like there's something in me that has to come out. It feels like I already know there's a poem there, and I just have to start writing it. So usually, that's how things begin. If I'm not feeling burned out and I'm in a place where I can notice those feelings, and then I start writing. And then once I've begun writing, I notice different ideas that I want to develop in the piece. These are things that you picked up on, sort of this interest in the mundane, daily tasks of life, or another thing that I wanted to develop in this piece was the idea of saving, and what does it mean to save something. And then, you know, I just kind of keep writing and trying to figure that stuff out until it feels like the poem is done. Well, thank you so much, Dave. I loved Housekeeping, and I hope you keep writing. So this ends our podcast. Please join me again for more of about cancer stories. Until next time, thank you for listening to this JCO's Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology Podcast. If you enjoyed what you heard today, don't forget to give us a rating or review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. While you're there, be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. JCO's Cancer Stories, The Art of Oncology Podcast is just one of ASCO's many podcasts. 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A follow-up to episode three with a special performance of Marie Howe's poem, "Part of Eve's Discussion" set to music by composer Stephen Lamb. Vocalist is Cindy Morgan, Alicia Enstrom and Katelyn Westergard on Violin, Kristin Wilkinson on Viola, Nicholas Gold on Cello. More about the Tokens Podcast at tokensshow.com/podcast See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
A strange conversion experience has happened to religion here in the Bible belt: once known as a key to social transformation, these days it’s more likely the mechanism of socio-political conservatism. So perhaps one of the key questions to living life well in our contemporary world is how to get troubled. Poetry, anyone? The unlikely possibility that poetry could do anything of the sort is explored by former U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith, and former NY State Poet Laureate Marie Howe, as they both claim the possibility that poetry can do a great deal of troubling of the waters, can provide a counter-spell to the hypnotizing forces of either social hostility or consumerism. LINKS: Tracy K. Smith book, “Life on Mars: Poems” Tracy K. Smith book, "Wade in the Water: Poems” Marie Howe book, ”What the Living Do” Marie Howe book, “Magdalene: Poems” Tokens 2020 Subscriptions See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
On this special edition of This Is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain read “Courage” by Marie Howe, and adds a lesson to all you young poets out there for how to write an ode. This is a great exercise for you to do with your kiddos this weekend! We...
On this special edition of This Is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain read “Courage” by Marie Howe, and adds a lesson to all you young poets out there for how to write an ode. This is a great exercise for you to do with your kiddos this weekend! We...
On this special edition of This Is Just To Say, The Closet Recordings, poet and novelist Carrie Fountain read “Courage” by Marie Howe, and adds a lesson to all you young poets out there for how to write an ode. This is a great exercise for you to do with your kiddos this weekend! We […]
In a recent book launch, Marie Howe, Victoria Redel, Tenku Ruff and Sebene Selassie read poetry from “The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns” by Matty Weingast. Composed around the Buddha’s lifetime, the Therigatha (Verses of the Elder Nuns) contains poems of princesses and courtesans, tired wives of arranged marriages and the
Patrick is joined by Katy Lemieux, the brains behind Actors Reading Outloud. We share a couple poems: Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps and Marie Howe's What the Living Do. We discuss the nascent idea for Actors Reading Outloud from her joint work with her husband on staging Auden's For the Time Being. We talk Steinbeck for a spell, especially The Red Pony (which I'm happy to see has a better cover in new editions.) Katy is also a writer-at-large on the arts for the Dallas area and we discuss her interview with David Lowery, Tom Stoppard, and so much more.
Marie Howe’s poem “My Mother’s Body” is wise about age. In the poem, Marie’s mother is young enough to be Marie’s own daughter, and in this imagination there is wonder, understanding, and even forgiveness. A question to reflect on after you listen: Are there things that you have found easier to understand — or even forgive — as you’ve gotten older?About the poet:Marie Howe is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. She’s published four collections of poetry: What the Living Do, The Good Thief, The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, and Magdalene. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Dartmouth College, and New York University.“My Mother’s Body” comes from Marie Howe’s book The Kingdom of Ordinary Time. Thank you to W.W. Norton, who published the book and gave us permission to use Marie’s poem. Read it on onbeing.org.Find the transcript for this episode at onbeing.org.The original music in this episode was composed by Gautam Srikishan.
In this Winter Solstice Special Episode we help you get through the longest, darkest night of the year and the soul (in the Northern Hemisphere at least), together. Well, not just get through it, but cherish it and revel in its beauty. We talk about the astrology of the season, the psychology of the longest night, what this season means for you, AND, most importantly, we’ve got a ritual guide to help you make the most of all of it.****************************Special Offers:This is your last chance to purchase our famous Strange Magic workshops. Once they come down on December 19th, they're down for good, so get them while they're hot. Workshops include:Spells: A Guide to Spell CastingHigh Priestess & Intuition: Trusting Your Inner VoiceThe Shadow Knows: Finding Power in the Hard CardsCLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A WORKSHOP***Win A Free Session With Amanda (by submitting a review of Initiated)To enter to win a free tarot session with Amanda (and get a downloadable altar prayer PDF, guaranteed), all readers of Initiated need to do is review Amanda's book on Amazon or Goodreads + their Instagram Feed and then submit a screenshot via email here (guardian@oracleoflosangeles.com). For each review (Goodreads, Amazon, or Instagram) you will receive a separate entry. 3 reviews = 3 entries to win. Good odds for a good cause! Thanks for your participation!! Offer ends December 18th.***Grab some incredible gifts for the Modern Women in your life by shopping Sarah's shop. She's got an incredible array of shirts, sweatshirts, tote bags, zines, art and more. Support Sarah's small business this holiday by CLICKING THIS LINK.****************************Amanda References:Adam Elenbass of Nighlight Astrology The spiritual ecology book "Coming Back to Life" by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown and the concept of Positive DisintegrationThe poem by Marie Howe called "What the Living Do"Amanda refers to an essay in The Atlantic by Emily Esfahani Smithabout rituals for dealing with grief. The book The Spiral Dance by Starhawk.****************************YOUR SOLSTICE RITUAL GUIDEText for the candle lighting ritual (by Amanda Yates Garcia)I am _____. [Describe who you are, i.e. artist, lover, friend, etc.]Example: I am Amanda Yates Garcia, witch, writer, artist, and Oracle of Los Angeles.This year I have lost ______ to the night. [Describe what you have lost, be it personal or political].Example: This year I have lost a lot of time to internet vampires, and countless hours worrying over the fate of our world under kyriarchy.And by the powers of the Goddess within me, from the darkness of this, the deepest night, I call forth the light of ______. [Describe what you want to call forth into the world and why]Example: And by the powers of the Goddess within me, from the darkness of this, the deepest night, I call forth the light of generosity, to use my words and actions to empower people to create a more beautiful, loving and compassionate world.Chant While Burning Your Solstice HerbsThe text for the chant is by Starhawk from her book The Spiral Dance. Please buy this book! Please note I do not include the full chant so as not to infringe on copyright. If you want the full chant buy Starhawk's book or visit her website.A great way to do this chant is to go around your circle and name your losses, toss the herbs into the fire, and then everybody chants the text together and you keep going round until you feel satisfied.[whatever you lost] is lost to the night[whatever you lost] is lost to the nightTo fall and rise againTo die and be rebornWhat more must [you/I/we] lose to the night? **********************************Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Strange Magic at strangemagicpodcast@gmail.com . Or, contact Sarah, Amanda, or Carolyn below to book a session or just to find out more:Sarah Faith Gottesdiener *(moon witch, artist, tarot reader, designer):https://modernwomen.bigcartel.com/To sign up for Sarah's newsletter, click here.To buy Sarah's "Many Moons Lunar Planner," CLICK HERE.www.visualmagic.infoSarah's Instagram**Amanda Yates Garcia (art witch, healer, writer):www.oracleoflosangeles.comTo sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's Facebook**Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (musician, artist, producer):www.carolynpennypackerriggs.comCarolyn's Instagram**CONTRIBUTORS:Sarah Faith Gottesdiener, Amanda Yates Garcia, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. With editing help from Jiha Lee.
November 7, 2019 at the Boston Athenæum. Despair, mania, rage, guilt, derangement, fantasy: poetry is our most intimate, personal source for the urgency of these experiences. Poems get under our skin; they engage with the balm, and the sting, of understanding. In The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall—its title inspired by a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins—acclaimed poet Robert Pinsky gives us more than 130 poems that explore emotion at its most expansive, distinct, and profound. For this event, poet and professor Maggie Dietz will engage Pinsky in conversation on this remarkable anthology of poems. With seven illuminating chapters and succinct headnotes for each poem, Pinsky leads us through the book’s sweeping historical range. Each chapter, with contents chronologically presented from Shakespeare to Terrance Hayes, Dante to Patricia Lockwood, shows the persistence and variation in our states of mind. “The Sleep of Reason” explores sanity and the imagination, moving from William Cowper’s “Lines Written During a Time of Insanity” to Nicole Sealey’s “a violence.” “Grief” includes Walt Whitman’s “When Lilacs last in the Door-yard Bloom’d” and Marie Howe’s “What the Living Do,” and “Manic Laughter” highlights both Lewis Carroll and Martín Espada. Each poem reveals something new about the vastness of human emotion; taken together they offer a sweeping ode to the power of poetry. Guided by “our finest living example of [the American civic poet]” (New York Times), The Mind Has Cliffs of Fall demonstrates how extreme feelings can be complementary and contradicting, and how poetry is not just an expression of emotion, but emotion itself.
In this episode of Poetry Koan, Richard Scott prescribes Practising by Marie Howe which you can read here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54778/practicing. RICHARD SCOTT was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers, The Poetry of Sex (Penguin) and Butt Magazine. He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet ‘Wound’ (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem ‘crocodile’ won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber & Faber) is his first book. Richard is on Twitter @iamrichardscott.
This week Jacquie covers the poetry of Marie Howe and Chrissy takes a shot at some longer form poetry by Reginald Gibbons. There's some funky stuff in here, so we hope you enjoy! This one is only ONE week late! Woo for crushing adulthood!
Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Debie Thomas. Essay by Debie Thomas: *Legion* for Sunday, 23 June 2019; book review by Dan Clendenin: *On the Brink of Everything: Grace, Gravity, and Getting Old* by Parker Palmer (2018); film review by Dan Clendenin: *Extremis* (2016); poem selected by Debie Thomas: *Magdalene -- The Seven Devils* by Marie Howe.
If you want a smorgasbord of scientifically proven benefits ranging from more positive emotion to reduced depression and anxiety to slowing aging, this episode reveals one of the closest things to a magic bullet. yeah boo! Get ready to supercharge your creativity and your life in as little as 10 minutes a day. In this episode you'll get a sample platter of different kinds of meditation to use in your creativity, plus quickie golden nuggets from each type so you can get started right meow and start seeing those sound-too-good-to-be-true results. Mentions: Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction free 8 week course: https://palousemindfulness.com Compassion talk (meditation at the 33 min mark): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vTviVkFJzM The Gate by Marie Howe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50979/the-gate-56d22e6c97230 Benefits of Loving Kindness Meditation: https://emmaseppala.com/18-science-based-reasons-try-loving-kindness-meditation-today/ Benefits of Mindfulness Meditation: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeenacho/2016/07/14/10-scientifically-proven-benefits-of-mindfulness-and-meditation/#44c3af7463ce Brendon Burchard on the science of high performance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EG402k7vVZU Ryan Muirhead (content contains nudity): https://ryanmuirhead.com Susie Moore: https://susie-moore.com The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks: https://www.amazon.com/Big-Leap-Conquer-Hidden-Level/dp/0061735361 Love Soaked Family Photography Online Course + Retreat: http://brookeschultzphotography.com/april-2019-love-soaked-family-photography-retreat-course/
On today’s episode, Pádraig Ó Tuama and Marie Howe, in a conversation with Micah Lott of Boston College, discuss the political possibilities of poetry: to bear witness, to inspire the moral imagination, and to provide perspective on our neighbors’ lives and the world around us. A poet, theologian, and group worker, Pádraig Ó Tuama is the leader of Corrymeela Community, an interdenominational church in Belfast dedicated to conflict transformation and church reconciliation. Ó Tuama has published and edited collections of poetry, essays, and theology, including Readings from the Book of Exile, Sorry for Your Troubles, and In the Shelter: Finding a Home in the World. Working with groups in Ireland, Britain, Australia, and the United States, he leads workshops and retreats on storytelling, spirituality, and conflict resolution. The Poet Laureate of New York State from 2012 to 2014, Marie Howe has published four collections of verse. Her books include The Good Thief, which was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood; What the Living Do, an elegy to her brother John, who died of an AIDS-related illness; The Kingdom of Ordinary Time; and Magdalene: Poems. Her poems have appeared in many publications, including the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Ploughshares, and the Partisan Review. Howe has received fellowships from the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Columbia University, and NYU. Rewrite Radio is a production of the Calvin Center for Faith and Writing, located on the campus of Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Theme music is June 11th by Andrew Starr. Additional sound design by Alejandra Crevier. You can find more information about the Center and its signature event, the Festival of Faith and Writing, online at ccfw.calvin.edu and festival.calvin.edu and on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Poet Marie Howe reads and discusses her poem “One Day” with host poet and novelist Carrie Fountain. They talk about poetry as a spiritual practice, their time together at The Michener Center, and Lucie Brock-Broido‘s poem, “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act.”
Poet Marie Howe reads and discusses her poem “One Day” with host poet and novelist Carrie Fountain. They talk about poetry as a spiritual practice, their time together at The Michener Center, and Lucie Brock-Broido‘s poem, “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act.”
Poet Marie Howe reads and discusses her poem “One Day” with host poet and novelist Carrie Fountain. They talk about poetry as a spiritual practice, their time together at The Michener Center, and Lucie Brock-Broido‘s poem, “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act.”
Marie Howe joins Kevin Young to read and discuss Lucie Brock-Broido's poem "The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act" and her own poem "The Star Market."
During the weeks before winter solstice we tend to shop like mad... here we talk of the contemplative origins of the Advent Wreath and read a poem by Marie Howe written from the perspective of Mary.
This week, Martha's guests are Jim Shepherd, Marie Howe, and Anthony DeCurtis.
Aaron Abeyta, accomplished poet and mayor of Antonito, Colorado speaks to Kierstin at Bridger Global, and later on Uche joins Kierstin in Telluride, at the newly christened "Maybelle" to talk Jack Mueller, Yeats, Marie Howe and such.
Tammi and Sondra excitedly take on this sometimes boring topic by first examining the different ways in which they both tackle productivity: Tammi, a former legal secretary, is more of a taskmaster while Sondra, a former hippie, likes to follow her impulses and ride the wave. People in recovery have to make time for creativity, as it competes for the other things that have priority, like meetings, self-care, service work. They offer many ideas on how to squeeze in the creative time, such as reframing what you consider creativity, self-imposed assignments and just staying mindful. And finally, they talk about ways to avoid procrastination, spoiler: expect to be uncomfortable. The ladies share their top three tools in their recovery-slash-creativity toolboxes for the week: Sondra's 3 fave things: On Being with Krista Tippett podcast episode with poet Marie Howe on The Power of Words to Save Us released on May 4, 2017, a Mother's Day outing to Austin's Barton Springs Pool, Recovery Gals Art Exchange's Summer Solstice Theme: Abundance and IG hashtag #recoverygalsartexchange Tammi's 3 Fave Things: IG account: @drybeclub for the dry curious, doTerra Motivate Encouraging Blend Roll-On (mint + citrus blend), The Life Coach School podcast Ep. 162: Time Management: Procrastination.
The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection “What the Living Do,” about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, “Magdalene.” Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us.
The moral life, Marie Howe says, is lived out in what we say as much as what we do. She became known for her poetry collection “What the Living Do,” about her brother’s death at 28 from AIDS. Now she has a new book, “Magdalene.” Poetry is her exuberant and open-hearted way into the words and the silences we live by. She works and plays with a Catholic upbringing, the universal drama of family, the ordinary rituals that sustain us — and how language, again and again, has a power to save us. This interview is edited and produced with music and other features in the On Being episode “Marie Howe — The Power of Words to Save Us.” Find more at onbeing.org.
After a few political episodes, Connor and Jack dig deep into a poem of loss and remembrance this week: Marie Howe's "What the Living Do" More on Marie Howe: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/marie-howe New episodes posted on the 2nd and 4th Friday of every month. Subscribe on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/close-talking/id1185025517?mt=2 Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at closetalkingpoetry@gmail.com.
10 days! That's how long I have before my next 100 mile attempt. With race day fueling and nutrition on the brain, I decided to reach back to an older interview with elite ultrarunner Stephanie Marie Howe, which I recorded for the Trail Runner's System. In this interview we discuss everything race fueling, from what to eat and how often, to managing an upset stomach.
A Murder Over a Girl (Henry Holt & Company) On February 12, 2008, a beautiful morning in Oxnard, CA, 14-year-old Brandon McInerney and the rest of his eighth grade class walked to the computer lab with their teacher, Dawn Boldrin. As his classmates typed their history papers, Brandon quietly stood and shot 15-year-old Larry King—who for just two weeks had been wearing traditionally female accessories and identifying as “Leticia”—twice in the head. Larry died in the hospital two days later. Psychologist and NYU professor Ken Corbett was unsettled by the media coverage that sidestepped the issues of gender identity and race, and went to California to attend the trial. In , A Murder Over a Girl, Corbett, a leading expert on gender and masculinity, details the case, and all the social issues still littering the American landscape eight years later. The brutal murder begged the question: How this could happen? Ellen DeGeneres spoke out; Newsweek and The Advocateran cover stories. Once again, "a normal boy” like Brandon had taken a gun into a school and killed another student in cold blood. But others, still, wondered: How could this not happen? In many ways this was a “perfect storm” of race, poverty, gun violence, and gender identity fueled by ignorance and fear. Brandon had been raised by drug-addicted parents. His mother shot his father days before their wedding, and his father later shot his mother in front of him. His home was a veritable culture of guns. Larry’s birth mother was a 15-year-old drug addicted prostitute. He had recently been removed from his adoptive parents’ home after reporting abuse. Larry identified as gay from the age of 10, and by 15 had realized he was a girl. He wore makeup and stilettos to school with his uniform and had asked the boy who would be his killer to be his valentine. Brandon says he was being sexually harassed by Larry and sought peace the only way he knew how. Nearly eight years later, we as a country are not on the same page on so many of the major issues at play: gender identity; sexual and racial equality; gun control; drug laws. Neither experts nor lawmakers nor voters can come to a consensus, and yet, teachers—most of whom have received no training in any of these areas—are thrust to the forefront in the classroom. Praise for A Murder Over A Girl: “Harrowing, humane, and utterly engaging, A Murder Over a Girl is a triumph of storytelling, delivering deep insight into gender and adolescence while drawing us into a fascinating narrative. It is a book very much of the moment, but at its heart it is a classic tale of human emotion.”—Susan Orlean, New York Times bestselling author of The Orchid Thief “Ken Corbett was put on earth to write this stunning book, now, at a moment in our history when we need him to be our secret agent, our witness, our guide inside the maelstrom of this mad hatter court.”—PETER CAREY, Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and The True History of the Kelly Gang “With great compassion, insight, and care, Ken Corbett takes us to the scene in which one transgendered child’s daring and vibrant bid to become a girl met with the murderous rage of a boy well taught in using a gun. A murdered girl is gone, a nearly undocumented life, yet her spectre lives on in this remarkable book, a narration that enters us into the minds of those who make hatred into a form of pernicious reasoning. A Murder Over a Girl is about youth culture, gender, school, and the failures of the legal system, about cunning reversals in argument whereby murderers are cast as victims, and the traces of the dead are nearly effaced. Corbett does justice to this death and to this life with a book both intelligent and loving, exposing a world tragically lacking in those very qualities, calling upon us all to intervene to halt gender violence before it begins.”—Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble “A Murder Over a Girl narrates a searing tragedy, meticulously laying out the aftermath of the crime, exposing the pathos not only of the victim, but also of the classmates, parents, jurors, lawyers, and others who had to grapple with the troubling nuance of the case. And in doing so Corbett unforgettably reveals the flaws of the American judicial system, the destructive influence of sensationalizing mass media, and the blindness of good intentions at the intersection of masculinity, grief, prejudice, and empathy.”—Andrew Solomon, New York Times bestselling author of Far from the Tree “I’ve never read a book like A Murder Over a Girl. It’s an account of a murder trial, the outcome of which is known; yet, the book is a hard-to-put-down page-turner. It achieves its extraordinary narrative intensity not through any sensationalizing of the facts, but rather through its author’s quiet authority, piercing insights, and his refusal to deliver hasty or easy judgments. Through patience, respect and empathy, Corbett allows us to see how dehumanization conceals a consequential and potentially fatal refusal to confront loss. And in confronting loss, this book renders justice, restoring to the memory of the victim her dignity, her vital subjectivity and her agency. A Murder Over A Girl is magnificently written, shattering, original and immensely valuable."—Tony Kushner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Angels in America “There are events that break out of a culture as illness breaks out of a body. Ken Corbett has written an account of a crime yes, a trial yes, a tragedy, but he has also perceived a way for us to comprehend the gender dis-ease just below our cultural skin. This is a brilliant and necessary book.” —Marie Howe, author of What the Living Do and The Kingdom of Ordinary Time "One young teenager is dead. Another is a murderer. And all of our contemporary dividing lines--race, gender, class, orientation, homophobia, privilege, and fear of the unknown--are drawn in a California courtroom. Telling this devastating story with clarity, empathy, and insight, Ken Corbett brings his profound understanding of the minds of boys--their hopes, their dreams, their terrors, their longings--to bear in the service of making the unimaginable clear to us. This essential book will broaden your mind even as it breaks your heart." —Mark Harris, author of Pictures at A Revolution and Five Came Back “Ken Corbett corrals the chaos and trauma of the King murder trial into a riveting story of the “cratered minds” that result from, and perpetrate, violence. With an analyst’s attunement, he also takes us beyond the courtroom, imagining his way into the lives and minds of Brandon McInerney and Leticia King with nuance and tremendous compassion. He gives a devastating account of the emotional landscapes of the school, the families, and the communities in which both murderer and victim were and were not held. Corbett’s determination that this crime be named and these lives be told results in a powerful and heartbreaking book.”—GAYLE SALAMON, author of Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality Ken Corbett is a clinical assistant professor at NYU in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy with a private practice in New York City. He is the author of Boyhoods: Rethinking Masculinities. Maggie Nelson is the author of The Argonauts, as well as an American poet, art critic, lyric essayist and nonfiction author of books such as The Red Parts: A Memoir, The Art of Cruelty, Bluets, and Jane: A Murder. The Art of Cruelty was a 2011 Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction. Jane: A Murder was a finalist for the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir. Nelson has taught at the Graduate Writing Program of the New School, Wesleyan University, and the School of Art and Design at Pratt Institute; she currently teaches in the CalArts MFA writing program. She was awarded an Arts Writers grant in 2007 from the Creative Capital/Andy Warhol Foundation. In 2011, she was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.
Steven Leyva was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in Houston, Texas. His poems have appeared in The Fiddleback, The Light Ekphrastic, Cobalt Review, and Little Patuxent Review. He is a Cave Canem fellow, the winner of the 2012 Cobalt Review Poetry Prize, editor of the Little Patuxent Review, and author of the chapbook Low Parish. Steven holds an M.F.A. from the University of Baltimore, where he teaches in the undergraduate writing program.Rebekah Remington’s poetry has appeared in AGNI online, Blackbird, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, Rattle, Smartish Pace, and elsewhere. Her chapbook Asphalt (CityLit 2013) was selected by Marie Howe for the Clarinda Harriss Poetry Award. She is the recipient of a Rubys Artist Project Grant from the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, as well as three Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Awards in poetry. She currently teaches creative writing at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.John A. Nieves has poems forthcoming or recently published in journals such as: Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, and the minnesota review. He won the 2011 Indiana Review Poetry Contest and his first book, Curio (2014), won the Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award Judge’s Prize. He is an Assistant Professor of English at Salisbury University. He received his M.A. from University of South Florida and his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri.Read “In Creole” by Steven Leyva.Read “Little Seismic” by Rebekah Remington.Read “Labwork” by John A. Nieves. Recorded On: Wednesday, March 11, 2015
See also the poem "Annunciation" by Marie Howe and Luke 1:26-38.
Marie Howe is the current Poet Laureate of New York State. She has published three volumes of poetry: The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, The Good Thief and What the Living Do. She is also co-editor of In the Company of My Solitude: American Writing from the AIDS Pandemic. Howe has been a fellow at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe College and a recipient of NEA and Guggenheim fellowships. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, Agni, Ploughshares, Harvard Reviewand The Partisan Review. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College.
“I feel poets have saved my life. The poets are our companions. They have found words for states all of us have experienced.” So says Marie Howe on a recent visit to Scotland, where she was appearing as a guest of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Howe’s first collection, The Good Thief (1988), was chosen for the National Poetry Series by Margaret Atwood, who praised Howe’s ‘poems of obsession that transcend their own dark roots’. Jennifer Williams, Programme Manager at the Scottish Poetry Library, interviews Howe about the craft of writing poetry, focussing on her poems ‘The Star Market’ and ‘The Snow Storm’. Music by James Iremonger.
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