Podcasts about Merwin

NOTE - Tara offers a meditation you can use as a practice during this introduction series: Mindfulness Meditation—Intimacy with our Inner Life. Whether you are new to meditation or an experienced practitioner, the foundational teachings of mindfulness—heart presence—offer a timeless medicine for navigating these challenging times. This fresh introductory series invites you to bring alive ancient practices in ways that are directly relevant to the emotions and reactivity arising in today's world. You'll be guided to discover an inner refuge—a way to meet your personal life and our collective world with greater presence and wisdom, courage and love. In this first session, we explore what makes mindfulness truly transformational: the flow of effective training, the power of aspiration, how to use the breath as a home base, and the attitudes that support a steady, strong, and liberating practice. As poet W. S. Merwin writes, “Little breath, breathe me gently, row me gently, for I am a river I am learning to cross.” 

By W.S. Merwin

This episode explores new research, which has found that US Bitcoin mining uses more electricity than Los Angeles, mostly from fossil fuels. --- Read this episode's science poem here. Read the scientific study that inspired it here. Read 'Air' by W.S. Merwin here.   --- Music by Rufus Beckett. --- Follow Sam on social media and send in any questions or comments for the podcast: https://linktr.ee/sam.illingworth

Greetings! New Petridisch, new Tremosphere, new Robert Scott Thompson, other new things, slightly older stuff, then a tangent focused on the work of Ricky Ian Gordan and Adam Guettel. (Oh, did I ever tell you I once co-hosted a show themed around musical theater & related goodies?) Enjoy! Joel e-mail: pushingtheenvelopewhus@gmail.com Blue Sky: https://bsky.app/profile/envpusher1.bsky.social    3-22-25 PTE Playlist   They Went Away - Tremosphere - saturated solace - Slugg Records (May 2025 pre-release) https://tremosphere.bandcamp.com/album/saturated-solace    This Earthly Round (REDUX) - Stephen Page, saxophone / Alexandre Maynegre-Torra, piano / Australian composer: Miriama Young - Earthly Round - Navona Records (2025)  https://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6707/    Our Again S - Petridisch - Apéritifs - fourth world (2025) https://fourthworld.bandcamp.com/album/ap-ritifs    The Universe Spins on a Vector of Silence - Robert Scott Thompson - In Slow Ascent - Aucourant Records (2025) https://robert-scott-thompson.bandcamp.com/album/in-slow-ascent   Jaunpuri - Sophia Subbayya Vastek: just intonation piano / Nitin Mitta: tabla / Michael Harrison tanpura & composer - Histories - Innova (2017) https://innova.mu/album/histories/    Janet Underneath The Roses - Ricky Ian Gordon - A Horse With Wings - Blue Griffin Records (2010) https://rickyiangordon.com/    Once I Was - voice: Theresa McCarthy / piano - composer: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001) https://rickyiangordon.com/    Contemporary - voice: Adam Guettel / poem: W.S. Merwin - music: Ricky Ian Gordon - Bright Eyed Joy: The Songs of Ricky Ian Gordon - Nonesuch (2001) https://rickyiangordon.com/    Saturn Returns - vocal/composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2001) https://www.adamguettel.com/    Pegasus - vocals: Billy Porter / Lynette DuPre / Audra McDonald / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Nonesuch (2002) https://www.adamguettel.com/   Come To Jesus - guitar: Garrett Gleason / composer: Adam Guettel - Myths & Hymns - Big Round Records (2023) https://www.bigroundrecords.com/catalog/BR8984/   Prisms for Gene Davis - ensemble: Nata Swara / composer: Brian Baumbusch - Chemistry for Gamelan and String Quartet - New World Records (2023) https://www.newworldrecords.org/products/brian-baumbusch-chemistry-for-gamelan-and-string-quartet    Duck Blind - Paul Dresher Ensemble w/ Rinde Eckert - Slow Fire - Minmax Music (1992) https://minmax.bandcamp.com/album/slow-fire    Weeping Monolith - Gelbart - Liquids & Flesh - Egglike Records (April 2025) https://gelbart.bandcamp.com/album/liquids-flesh    Hidden No More - Kekal - Quantum Resolution - digital release (2020) https://kekal.bandcamp.com/album/quantum-resolution    March - feinstruktur - 2025 - digital release (2025) https://feinstruktur.bandcamp.com/album/2025           

SD-WAN - Software-Defined Wide-Area Network - is a technology implementation designed to bring better reliability and performance to IP connections over distance. Whether across town, to remote offices, or to remote transmitter sites, SD-WAN technologies are gaining interest among broadcast engineers and IT staff. It turns out there are a lot of features - optional but useful features - that can be deployed alongside basic WAN management and monitoring. Dan Merwin and Reggie Jeffery work in broadcast and other industries to offer appropriate technologies and capabilities, improving our critical IP connections. Show Notes:What is SD-WAN? - a primer from CiscoSD-WAN article from WikipediaIn our SBE meeting earlier today, Reggie mentioned CATO Networks as a source of tech and information. Here’s their primer on SD-WANs. Guests:Dan Merwin – Broadcast Engineer & Telecom/IT Agent at Broadcast TelecomReggie Jeffery – Solutions Engineer at ScanSourceHost:Kirk Harnack, The Telos Alliance, Delta Radio, Star94.3, South Seas Broadcasting, & Akamai BroadcastingFollow TWiRT on Twitter and on Facebook - and see all the videos on YouTube.TWiRT is brought to you by:Broadcasters General Store, with outstanding service, saving, and support. Online at BGS.cc. Broadcast Bionics - making radio smarter with Bionic Studio, visual radio, and social media tools at Bionic.radio.Aiir, providing PlayoutONE radio automation, and other advanced solutions for audience engagement.Angry Audio and the new Rave analog audio mixing console. The new MaxxKonnect Broadcast U.192 MPX USB Soundcard - The first purpose-built broadcast-quality USB sound card with native MPX output. Subscribe to Audio:iTunesRSSStitcherTuneInSubscribe to Video:iTunesRSSYouTube

SD-WAN - Software-Defined Wide-Area Network - is a technology implementation designed to bring better reliability and performance to IP connections over distance. Whether across town, to remote offices, or to remote transmitter sites, SD-WAN technologies are gaining interest among broadcast engineers and IT staff. It turns out there are a lot of features - optional but useful features - that can be deployed alongside basic WAN management and monitoring. Dan Merwin and Reggie Jeffery work in broadcast and other industries to offer appropriate technologies and capabilities, improving our critical IP connections.

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Today's poem will leave you “knowing very well what it was all about.” Happy reading.Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California on April 12, 1952, to working-class Mexican American parents. As a teenager and college student, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, chopping beets and cotton and picking grapes. He was not academically motivated as a child, but he became interested in poetry during his high school years. He attended Fresno City College and California State University–Fresno, and he earned an MFA from the University of California–Irvine in 1976.His first collection of poems, The Elements of San Joaquin (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the United States Award of the International Poetry Forum in 1976 and was published in 1977. Since then, Soto has published numerous books of poetry, including You Kiss by th' Book: New Poems from Shakespeare's Line (Chronicle Books, 2016), A Simple Plan (Chronicle Books, 2007), and New and Selected Poems (Chronicle Books, 1995), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.Soto cites his major literary influences as Edward Field, Pablo Neruda, W. S. Merwin, Gabriel García Márquez, Christopher Durang, and E. V. Lucas. Of his work, the writer Joyce Carol Oates has said, “Gary Soto's poems are fast, funny, heartening, and achingly believable, like Polaroid love letters, or snatches of music heard out of a passing car; patches of beauty like patches of sunlight; the very pulse of a life.”Soto has also written three novels, including Amnesia in a Republican County (University of New Mexico Press, 2003); a memoir, Living Up the Street (Strawberry Hill Press, 1985); and numerous young adult and children's books. For the Los Angeles Opera, he wrote the libretto to Nerdlandia, an opera.Soto has received the Andrew Carnegie Medal and fellowships from the California Arts Council, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He lives in Northern California.-bio via Academy of American Poets This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

December 29, 2024 - Stephen Merwin: "What Do We Give God" - Luke 10:25-28 by Red Mountain Church, PCA

Tyler Merwin brought a compelling summary and points of personal encouragement about Chanukah and how the prophecy was foretold and how the patterns and principles can be applied to our lives.

Craig Arnold, born November 16, 1967 was an American poet and professor. His first book of poems, Shells (1999), was selected by W.S. Merwin for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. His many honors include the 2005 Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Hodder Fellowship, and fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the National Endowment for the Arts, and MacDowell. He taught poetry at the University of Wyoming. His poems have appeared in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1998 and The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology, and in literary journals including Poetry, The Paris Review, The Denver Quarterly, Barrow Street, The New Republic and The Yale Review. Arnold grew up in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Arnold's Made Flesh won the 2009 High Plains Book Award and the 2008 Utah Book Award.In 2009, Arnold traveled to Japan to research volcanoes for a planned book of poetry. In April of that year, he disappeared while hiking on the island of Kuchinoerabujima. In the New York Times, the poet David Orr mourned the loss of Arnold, but noted it would “be a mistake to think of him as a writer silenced before his prime... His shelf space may be smaller than one would wish, but he earned every bit of it.”-bio via Copper Canyon Press and Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

00:03:54 - Poem - 'Place' from ‘Migration: new and selected poems' by W. S. Merwin 00:09:32 - What is Practice? - A Reading from 'Ordinary Wonder' by Joko Beck 00:23:47 - A reading from 'Living by Vow' - Shohaku Okumura 00:34:13 - Ann Opens up a conversation On the last day of the world I would want to plant a tree what for not for the fruit the tree that bears the fruit is not the one that was planted I want the tree that stands in the earth for the first time with the sun already going down and the water touching its roots in the earth full of the dead and the clouds passing one by one over its leaves

For four generations, the Merwin family has worked in Boeing's factories in Washington state. But for the last six weeks, Tony Merwin and his son Patrick have been on strike, along with 33,000 machinists. They explain why they're demanding higher wages and pension benefits.  Further Reading: -For This Boeing Family, the Job Is the Same. The Payoff Isn't  -Boeing Strike Extended After Union Machinists Reject Contract  -Boeing's CEO Is Shrinking the Jet Maker to Stop Its Crisis From Spiraling  Further Listening: -Why 33,000 Boeing Workers Walked Off the Job  -Boeing's Long Flight Delay – in Space  -Boeing Agrees to Felony Plea. Now Its Future Is Up in the Air.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this heartfelt episode of I Was Born to Do This, Keira returns from her summer break with a powerful new episode featuring special guest Kristen Merwin, a resiliency coach and author in the recently released Mosai Messages book. Kristen was Keira's very first mastermind client back in 2019, and their journey together has been a beautiful unfolding of growth, impact, and transformation. Together, they discuss Kristen's inspiring work with children and teens, her profound chapter titled "The Wild Child," and the magic that exists within every young person. Kristen shares her wisdom on conscious parenting and the importance of guiding children to express their authentic selves rather than conforming to societal expectations. The conversation dives into embracing the "wild child"—those who defy the norms and live outside the box—and the critical role parents play in nurturing these children to become the powerful leaders the world needs. Kristen and Keira also explore the challenges of parenting, healing old wounds, and the deep lessons that come from raising spirited kids. They share their own experiences, struggles, and victories, reminding us that when we see the magic within our children, we can help them shine in their unique brilliance. If you've ever struggled to understand a child who doesn't fit the mold, felt overwhelmed by the intensity of parenting, or questioned how to help your kids thrive in an ever-changing world, this episode is for you. Kristen's insights on reparenting, grounding practices, and nurturing the inner child provide a pathway for parents to heal and grow alongside their children. Key Takeaways: The Power of Saying Yes: Keira shares how Kristen's "yes" changed her business and why it only takes one "yes" to change a child's life. The Magic of the Wild Child: Kristen explains that children who don't conform are often the ones who will change the world if nurtured properly. Reparenting for Healing: The importance of addressing our own inner wounds as parents and how doing so can heal our relationship with our children. Raising Conscious Children: Moving beyond traditional parenting techniques to a more intentional approach that honors the unique gifts of each child. Trusting the Next Generation: While the world may seem bleak, our children are coming into it with magic and potential we've never seen before. Follow Kristen: Instagram: @TheRealMagicInside Buy The Mosai Message Book Here: https://a.co/d/gSeKgxd If you are ready to step into being an author... then head over to www.joapublishing.com to apply.   

In this episode of the Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast, host Pierce Nelles reflects on his journey over the past year and welcomes back guest Gus Merwin to discuss preparations for duck season. They delve into the allure of North Dakota as a prime waterfowl hunting destination, sharing insights on scouting techniques, essential gear, and the importance of building relationships with local landowners. The conversation also touches on the challenges of transitioning back to hunting in Wisconsin after experiencing the abundance of birds in North Dakota, and Gus shares his plans for a new duck boat project. Gus is back and he's ready to hit the road to North Dakota on an epic waterfowling adventure with his buddies. He shares his tips for planning a successful trip, finding and understanding birds once you get there, the essential gear, how tactics translate to & from ND to Wisconsin, and how to keep a good mindset when returning home. All that and more in this week's episode! Follow along with Gus and his adventures @heyimgus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of the Wisconsin Sportsman Podcast, host Pierce Nelles reflects on his journey over the past year and welcomes back guest Gus Merwin to discuss preparations for duck season. They delve into the allure of North Dakota as a prime waterfowl hunting destination, sharing insights on scouting techniques, essential gear, and the importance of building relationships with local landowners. The conversation also touches on the challenges of transitioning back to hunting in Wisconsin after experiencing the abundance of birds in North Dakota, and Gus shares his plans for a new duck boat project.Gus is back and he's ready to hit the road to North Dakota on an epic waterfowling adventure with his buddies. He shares his tips for planning a successful trip, finding and understanding birds once you get there, the essential gear, how tactics translate to & from ND to Wisconsin, and how to keep a good mindset when returning home. All that and more in this week's episode! Follow along with Gus and his adventures @heyimgus

The Fall Equinox is upon us. The days will start getting shorter and the air cooler... It is Libra season! Heidi and Ellen welcome this unusual month that will usher in the next Presidential election.   We call upon Libra to have real conversations that address areas of conflict or division. We call upon Libra to right the scales, to find a truer center. We call upon Libra to remember decency and kindness and the right relationship with our fellow humans.   They talked about the creative Libran, Jim Henson. Heidi read the poem Here Together by W.S.Merwin.   Books mentioned: All Fours by Miranda July and Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell.   TV and movies mentioned: How To Die Alone; Jim Henson, Idea Man; Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. 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

In this episode, we discuss PacifiCorp's upcoming dam safety work that will increase water flow from Merwin Dam and result in the closure of the Swift Forest Camp boat ramp. Learn how these changes will impact recreational activities in the area. Tune in for the full details! https://tinyurl.com/27nsebn4 #MerwinDam #SwiftReservoir #PacifiCorp #LocalNews

A missing seven-year-old child, Shelby Wolff, was found safe at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway after an overnight search by the Clark County Sheriff's Office and volunteers. Tune in to learn how she was found and the efforts made by the community. Read the full story at https://tinyurl.com/38w8y5tz. #LocalNews #MissingChild #LakeMerwin #ClarkCountyWa #CCSO

We are thrilled to bring you a community story from a fellow working mama, Britta Merwin. Britta is a meteorologist by day (and by day, we mean EARLY morning) and a mom, wife, and autism advocate every minute of every day! Britta has three children, one diagnosed with autism. You can find her on FoxWeather.com, keeping us all updated on the latest weather, storm warnings, etc. We get to know about Britta and some of the triumphs and challenges she faces as a member of her neurodiverse family. She is uniquely qualified to speak on natural disasters, what to look for, and scenarios for neurodivergent and/or disabled families to consider. We may have to prepare and plan for extreme weather in a different way from our friends and neighbors. Having to think outside the box is not a new concept for any of us, I know, but just another layer to keep in mind, considering what natural disasters most often occur in your area. Reach out to Britta: @brittamerwinwx on FB, Twitter, and Instagram 

Today's poem is a shape poem dedicated to chefs, but (surprise?) it might be about more than cooking.John Hollander, one of contemporary poetry's foremost poets, editors, and anthologists, grew up in New York City. He studied at Columbia University and Indiana University, and he was a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows of Harvard University. Hollander received numerous awards and fellowships, including the Levinson Prize, a MacArthur Foundation grant, and the poet laureateship of Connecticut. He served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and he taught at Hunter College, Connecticut College, and Yale University, where he was the Sterling Professor emeritus of English.Over the course of an astonishing career, Hollander influenced generations of poets and thinkers with his critical work, his anthologies and his poetry. In the words of J.D. McClatchy, Hollander was “a formidable presence in American literary life.” Hollander's eminence as a scholar and critic was in some ways greater than his reputation as a poet. His groundbreaking introduction to form and prosody Rhyme's Reason (1981), as well as his work as an anthologist, has ensured him a place as one of the 20th-century's great, original literary critics. Hollander's critical writing is known for its extreme erudition and graceful touch. Hollander's poetry possesses many of the same qualities, though the wide range of allusion and technical virtuosity can make it seem “difficult” to a general readership.Hollander's first poetry collection, A Crackling of Thorns (1958) won the prestigious Yale Series of Younger Poets Awards, judged by W.H. Auden. And in fact James K. Robinson in the Southern Review found that Hollander's “early poetry resembles Auden's in its wit, its learned allusiveness, its prosodic mastery.” Hollander's technique continued to develop through later books like Visions from the Ramble (1965) and The Night Mirror (1971). Broader in range and scope than his previous work, Hollander's Tales Told of the Fathers (1975) and Spectral Emanations (1978) heralded his arrival as a major force in contemporary poetry. Reviewing Spectral Emanations for the New Republic, Harold Bloom reflected on his changing impressions of the poet's work over the first 20 years of his career: “I read [A Crackling of Thorns] … soon after I first met the poet, and was rather more impressed by the man than by the book. It has taken 20 years for the emotional complexity, spiritual anguish, and intellectual and moral power of the man to become the book. The enormous mastery of verse was there from the start, and is there still … But there seemed almost always to be more knowledge and insight within Hollander than the verse could accommodate.” Bloom found in Spectral Emanations “another poet as vital and accomplished as [A.R.] Ammons, [James] Merrill, [W.S.] Merwin, [John] Ashbery, James Wright, an immense augmentation to what is clearly a group of major poets.”Shortly after Spectral Emanations, Hollander published Blue Wine and Other Poems (1979), a volume which a number of critics have identified as an important milestone in Hollander's life and career. Reviewing the work for the New Leader, Phoebe Pettingell remarked, “I would guess from the evidence of Blue Wine that John Hollander is now at the crossroads of his own midlife journey, picking out a new direction to follow.” Hollander's new direction proved to be incredibly fruitful: his next books were unqualified successes. Powers of Thirteen (1983) won the Bollingen Prize from Yale University and In Time and Place (1986) was highly praised for its blend of verse and prose. In the Times Literary Supplement, Jay Parini believed “an elegiac tone dominates this book, which begins with a sequence of 34 poems in the In Memoriam stanza. These interconnecting lyrics are exquisite and moving, superior to almost anything else Hollander has ever written.” Parini described the book as “a landmark in contemporary poetry.” McClatchy held up In Time and Place as evidence that Hollander is “part conjurer and part philosopher, one of our language's true mythographers and one of its very best poets.”Hollander continued to publish challenging, technically stunning verse throughout the 1980s and '90s. His Selected Poetry (1993) was released simultaneously with Tesserae (1993); Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) came a few years later. “The work collected in [Tesserae and Other Poems and Selected Poetry] makes clear that John Hollander is a considerable poet,” New Republic reviewer Vernon Shetley remarked, “but it may leave readers wondering still, thirty-five years after his first book … exactly what kind of poet Hollander is.” Shetley recognized the sheer variety of Hollander's work, but also noted the peculiar absence of anything like a personality, “as if the poet had taken to heart, much more fully than its author, Eliot's dictum that poetry should embody ‘emotion which has its life in the poem and not in the history of the poet.'” Another frequent charge leveled against Hollander's work is that it is “philosophical verse.” Reviewing A Draft of Light (2008) for Jacket Magazine, Alex Lewis argued that instead of writing “philosophizing verse,” Hollander actually “borrows from philosophy a language and a way of thought. Hollander's poems are frequently meta-poems that create further meaning out of their own self-interrogations, out of their own reflexivity.” As always, the poems are underpinned by an enormous amount of learning and incredible technical expertise and require “a good deal of time and thought to unravel,” Lewis admitted. But the rewards are great: “the book deepens every time that I read it,” Lewis wrote, adding that Hollander's later years have given his work grandeur akin to Thomas Hardy and Wallace Stevens.Hollander's work as a critic and anthologist has been widely praised from the start. As editor, he has worked on volumes of poets as diverse as Ben Jonson and Dante Gabriel Rossetti; his anthologist's credentials are impeccable. He was widely praised for the expansive American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century (1994), two volumes of verse including ballads, sonnets, epic poetry, and even folk songs. Herbert Mitgang of the New York Times praised the range of poets and authors included in the anthology: “Mr. Hollander has a large vision at work in these highly original volumes of verse. Without passing critical judgment, he allows the reader to savor not only the geniuses but also the second-rank writers of the era.” Hollander also worked on the companion volume, American Poetry: The Twentieth Century (2000) with fellow poets and scholars Robert Hass, Carolyn Kizer, Nathaniel Mackey, and Marjorie Perloff.Hollander's prose and criticism has been read and absorbed by generations of readers and writers. Perhaps his most lasting work is Rhyme's Reason. In an interview with Paul Devlin of St. John's University, Hollander described the impetus behind the volume: “Thinking of my own students, and of how there was no such guide to the varieties of verse in English to which I could send them and that would help teach them to notice things about the examples presented—to see how the particular stanza or rhythmic scheme or whatever was being used by the particular words of the particular poem, for example—I got to work and with a speed which now alarms me produced a manuscript for the first edition of the book. I've never had more immediate fun writing a book.” Hollander's other works of criticism include The Work of Poetry (1993), The Poetry of Everyday Life (1997), and Poetry and Music (2003).Hollander died on August 17, 2013 in Branford, Connecticut.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

On Saturday (July 13), Pacific Power and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife joined together to host a memorable fishing event for children with disabilities at the Merwin Fish Hatchery near Woodland. https://www.clarkcountytoday.com/youth/children-with-disabilities-make-memories-at-the-24th-annual-merwin-day-of-fishing/ #PacificPower #WashingtonDepartmentOfFishAndWildlife #MerwinDayOfFishing #ChildrenWithDisabilities #MerwinFishHatchery #MerwinDam #Woodland #ClarkCountyWa #ClarkCountyNews #ClarkCountyToday

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje has just released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it's almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. This week, Michael joins Read This for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery.Reading list:Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje, 1976In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 1986The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Michael Ondaatje, 1989The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje, 1998Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 2000Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje, 2007The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, 2011Warlight, Michael Ondaatje, 2018A Year of Last Things, Michael Ondaatje, 2024The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, 2013Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and TwitterGuest: Michael OndaatjeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sri Lankan-born Canadian essayist, poet, and Booker Prize-winning novelist Michael Ondaatje has just released a stunning collection of poems. Ondaatje is now 80 years old and it's almost half a century since he published his first novel; even longer since he first published poetry. This week, Michael joins Read This for a conversation about A Year of Last Things and why writing remains such a joyful act of discovery. Reading list: Coming Through Slaughter, Michael Ondaatje, 1976 In the Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje, 1986 The Cinnamon Peeler: Selected Poems, Michael Ondaatje, 1989 The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje, 1992 Handwriting, Michael Ondaatje, 1998 Anil's Ghost, Michael Ondaatje, 2000 Divisadero, Michael Ondaatje, 2007 The Cat's Table, Michael Ondaatje, 2011 Warlight, Michael Ondaatje, 2018 A Year of Last Things, Michael Ondaatje, 2024 The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin, 2013 Socials: Stay in touch with Read This on Instagram and Twitter Guest: Michael Ondaatje

By W.S. Merwin

Great Episode with Jacob Skorloken who caught a 47.5" pike.  That would have been a new state catch and release record, but OPE. didn't take a picture of the measurement.   Also Scott Merwin announces his retirement from guiding and we have a great talk with him.   Josh Gillson from Life of Riley resort on Vermillion also joins us to talk about a event coming up for Pompe Disease.  

Matthew 3:13-17; Stephen Merwin, RUF-International Campus Pastor at UAB.

Tyler Merwin brought beautiful patterns from the Word connecting Shavuot, the Giving of the Word and the Giving of the Spirit, to the elements of the offerings and how they relate to the believer.

Brother Tyler Merwin brings a message to encourage us as we continue our journey to Shavuot, the Feast of Weeks.

Dr. Zach Baker, DPT discusses Julia Merwin's progression from Physical Therapy Intern to collegiate gymnast to creating a career as an online fitness influencer.  Julia has found a niche in the online fitness space and shares her journey, experiences, trials and tribulations along the way.  Her educational background, work and personal experiences have all led to a unique foundation, setting her up for success! Check out her YouTube channel here!

EPISODE 111: Larry Beckett's poetry has been published in Zyzzyva, Field, Salamander, the anthology Portland Lightsfrom Nine Lights Press, and his first book, Songs and Sonnets from Rainy Day Women Press, was favorably reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle. Beat Poetry, a study of the San Francisco renaissance, was put out by Beatdom Books. Three book-length poems have been published, Paul Bunyan, by Smokestack Books, Wyatt Earp, by Alternating Current Press, and Amelia Earhart, by Finishing Line Press, with strong reviews in Zyzzyva. These texts were collected, with seven others, as an epic, American Cycle, published by Running Wild Press. The Book of Merlin, a translation, is out from Livingston Press, and Song to the Siren is forthcoming from Halbaffe Press. His work has been commended by Jonah Raskin, Jack Hirschman, David Meltzer, Tom Clark, Ann Charters, Paul Wilner, David Young, and U.S. Poet Laureates William Meredith, W. S. Merwin and Charles Wright. larrybeckett.comContact us: makingsoundpodcast.comFollow on Instagram: @makingsoundpodcastFollow on Threads: @jannkloseJoin our Facebook GroupPlease support the show with a donation, thank you for listening!

This week I first discuss the latest trending news in travel, including big cruise news, new rules from the FAA for air traffic controllers, Amsterdam's big changes and more.  Later, I interview Barbra Merwin, President of Travel Insured. Merwin talks about how the travel insurance sector has changed following the pandemic and common misconceptions about travel insurance. Additionally, she shares advice and insights for travel advisors in handling travel insurance with their clients.  The interview on travel insurance begins at the 11-minute mark. Today's episode sponsor: Travel Insured  Travel mostly comes down to two simple things: a FOMO bucket-list, and financing it! Am I right? This is why TravelInsured.com is travel protection that can help with those big trip decisions. You'll love how customizable the coverage is, which helps manage what you can't control from departure to arrival. Get going with an easy online quote, and depending on the plan and availability, upgrade with the Cancel For Any Reason add-on benefit for an extra cost. The best part is, with protection that meets the moment, it's easy to say yes to new adventures at TravelInsured.com Have any feedback or questions? Want to sponsor the show? Contact us at Podcast@TravelPulse.com and follow us on social media @TravelPulse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Hunting Forums, Netflix, you name it! Across all platforms somebody's got something to say, a bone to pick, or a cool picture to remind you why their gear is better than whatever you've got, and your way of doing things isn't great. It wears on a person after a while and sometimes can make it tough to figure out which way is up. That's the core focus of this week's episode as Pierce sits down with his good buddy, Gus Merwin, to take a step back and do a little analysis of hunting culture and the messages we're sent by outdoor brands, and more importantly, that we're sending to each other. Gus is a Wisconsin native and avid outdoorsman, now working in the marketing space. The guys discuss allegiances to brands, the messages various marketing campaigns send to us, impacts of social media on outdoor trends and schools of thought, and how those can be a really good thing, or maybe a bad thing. The core message of their chat is that we're all in this together, not everything is better or worse than the next thing, and we should all do our part to be conscious of who, how, and what we represent as members of the outdoor community. Enjoy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Hunting Forums, Netflix, you name it! Across all platforms somebody's got something to say, a bone to pick, or a cool picture to remind you why their gear is better than whatever you've got, and your way of doing things isn't great. It wears on a person after a while and sometimes can make it tough to figure out which way is up.That's the core focus of this week's episode as Pierce sits down with his good buddy, Gus Merwin, to take a step back and do a little analysis of hunting culture and the messages we're sent by outdoor brands, and more importantly, that we're sending to each other. Gus is a Wisconsin native and avid outdoorsman, now working in the marketing space. The guys discuss allegiances to brands, the messages various marketing campaigns send to us, impacts of social media on outdoor trends and schools of thought, and how those can be a really good thing, or maybe a bad thing. The core message of their chat is that we're all in this together, not everything is better or worse than the next thing, and we should all do our part to be conscious of who, how, and what we represent as members of the outdoor community. Enjoy!

In this episode, we'll discuss the life and work of poet W. S. Merwin. Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate in 2010, William Stanley Merwin had a career that spanned seven decades. A poet, translator, gardener and environmental activist, Merwin has become one of the most widely read and honored poets in America, the recipient of two [...]

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Join the gals for the queer makeover you secretly knew straight cis guy poetry needed.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. The word  zhuzh  is part of Polari, an argot used in Britain since perhaps the 18th century, primarily among gay theatrical and circus performers. Given the lack of a clear origin, it is impossible to tell if the verb has priority over the noun or vice versa.Jai Rodriguez was the original Culture Vulture for Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. Follow him on Instagram @jairodriguez or check out his IMDB page here.Read Charles Wright's poem " Sitting at Night on the Front Porch." In 2015, Charles Wright gave an interview with the Yale News in which he said that writing is "very difficult now, because I've probably written all the things I could possibly have to say at least five times, in five different directions. I don't want to do it now." He also talks about it in this interview with Image.Read the poem of Charles Simic's that we discuss in the episode: "My Shoes." You can also read the poem Aaron references: "Fork."Read W.S. Merwin's poem "Language."

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The full title of today's poem from Maurice Manning says it all: “A Brief Refutation of the Rumor That I Allowed Willie and Tad to Relieve Themselves in my Up-Turned Hat on a Sunday Morning at the Office While Their Mother was Attending Religious Services” Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Copper Canyon Press). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers. Today's poem comes from his 2020 collection, Railsplitter.-bio via Wikipedia Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

SHOW NOTES... We've been talking a lot about Education of late, and the insurmountable problem of getting kids interested in reading if they aren't already. Two clear thoughts have emerged.      One, I think the tired but all-too-accurate metaphor that American society is an Allegory of High School (jocks, cheerleaders, druggies and criminals in the making, nerds, and disaffected sub-groups, etc.) is becoming more concrete and congruent with each passing year. The only new element I see is the School Shooting. Telling.       But as I was thinking about reading in this context, I realized I don't recall learning to read myself very well. I vividly remember the discomfort of learning to handwrite (print and cursive). The pencils always seemed too big for my hands. What I do recall about early reading is that it meant Independence. I didn't have to rely on my grandmother or older sister. For me, reading was an expression of masculine self-determination—stepping out from the females who both dominated and positively directed my young life. How many people today would see reading as an expression of masculinity? How odd. Only a short while ago, our most important poets were men like James Dickey, James Wright, and W.S. Merwin. Those days seem long ago.      The second thought to reveal itself from this stream was The Bicycle. I used to ride my green Schwinn 3-speed to a bookstore in a strip mall to purchase the next Hardy Boy book I hadn't read. One rainy day, I realized I'd eventually run out of Hardy Boys…so I feverishly began creating my own deeply imitative series The Benton Boys. My real, private passion about writing came out of Fan Fiction. I openly borrowed characters. I just didn't want to run out of story.      I paid for the Green Bike myself…with the money I earned cleaning toilets and vacuuming floors for an industrial dry cleaner, starting at age 9. The job gave me more than $ and work ethic pride. It was a place to be after school in the strange days following my violent rape in 4th grade. The Green Bike was what I needed. The rape would never have happened if I'd had a bike. I made a major correction of reality. The Hardy Boys entered in…and then the Benton Boys. Reading + Green Bike = Independence.

In the first episode of 2024, we read one of the great poets of the past century, W.S. Merwin, and his address to the new year, considering his attentiveness, his style, and his wondrous mood and mode of contemplation and surprise. Picking up on the "radical hope" we discussed in Dimitrov's "Winter Solstice," we turn to Merwin's sense of what is untouched but still possible as he greets the new year. In this episode, we quote a few pieces from The New Yorker. Here they are, plus a few other resources. "The Aesthetic Insight of W.S. Merwin (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-ascetic-insight-of-w-s-merwin)" by Dan Chiasson "The Final Prophecy of W.S. Merwin (https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-final-prophecy-of-w-s-merwin)" by Dan Chiasson "The Palm Trees and Poetry of W.S. Merwin (https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-palm-trees-and-poetry-of-w-s-merwin)" by Casey Cep "When You Go Away: Remembering W.S. Merwin (https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/when-you-go-away-remembering-w-s-merwin)" by Kevin Young See also The Poetry Foundation (https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/w-s-merwin). The poem originally appeared in Present Company (https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/books/present-company-by-w-s-merwin/) (Copper Canyon Press, 2005). Thanks to the Wylie Agency for granting us permission to read this poem on the episode.

The Stuph File Program Featuring UK farmer Fiona Wilson; Scott Overton, author of Indigent Earth; & Joyce Merwin from The Train Mount Railroad Museum Download Fiona Wilson is the co-owner of Dumble Farms in East Yorkshire in the UK. You can visit the farm to experience cow cuddling. Scott Overton is the author of the science fiction novel, Indigent Earth. Joyce Merwin is the office manager at The Train Mountain Railroad Museum in Oregon, which features the world's largest miniature railroad with over 36 miles of 7.5-gauge track on over 2,000 acres of pine forest. (Also mentioned in the segment is the excellent video done by Mike Downey entitled, Riding the WORLD'S LONGEST Model Train Track! from his YouTube channel, DownieLive. Now you can listen to selected items from The Stuph File Program on the new audio service, Audea. A great way to keep up with many of the interviews from the show and take a trip down memory lane to when this show began back in 2009, with over 850 selections to choose from! This week's guest slate is presented by actor Bruce Dinsmore, who has worked in many animated TV shows, such as being Binky Barnes in Arthur, Tubby Tompkins from The Little Lulu Show, and a host of other animated voices. He also plays a police detective in the live action thriller, Charlie Tango, which will be released in February.

William Stanley (W.S.) Merwin was born in New York City in 1927 and raised in New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of a Presbyterian minister. His numerous collections of poetry, his translations, and his books of prose have won praise over seven decades. Though his early poetry received great attention and admiration, Merwin would continue to alter and innovate his craft with each new book, and at each stage he served as a powerful influence for poets of his generation and younger poets. For the entirety of his writing career, he explored a sense of wonder and celebrated the power of language, while serving as a staunch anti-war activist and advocate for the environment. He won nearly every award available to an American poet, and he was named U.S. poet laureate twice. A practicing Buddhist as well as a proponent of deep ecology, Merwin lived since the late 1970s on an old pineapple plantation in Hawaii which he has painstakingly restored to its original rainforest state. Poet Edward Hirsch wrote that Merwin “is one of the greatest poets of our age. He is a rare spiritual presence in American life and letters (the Thoreau of our era).”Merwin was once asked what social role a poet plays—if any—in America. He commented: “I think there's a kind of desperate hope built into poetry now that one really wants, hopelessly, to save the world. One is trying to say everything that can be said for the things that one loves while there's still time. I think that's a social role, don't you? ... We keep expressing our anger and our love, and we hope, hopelessly perhaps, that it will have some effect. But I certainly have moved beyond the despair, or the searing, dumb vision that I felt after writing The Lice; one can't live only in despair and anger without eventually destroying the thing one is angry in defense of. The world is still here, and there are aspects of human life that are not purely destructive, and there is a need to pay attention to the things around us while they are still around us. And you know, in a way, if you don't pay that attention, the anger is just bitterness.”Merwin died in March 2019 at the age of 91.-bio via Poetry Foundation Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

To the New YearWith what stillness at lastyou appear in the valleyyour first sunlight reaching downto touch the tips of a fewhigh leaves that do not stiras though they had not noticedand did not know you at allthen the voice of a dove callsfrom far away in itselfto the hush of the morningso this is the sound of youhere and now whether or notanyone hears it this iswhere we have come with our ageour knowledge such as it isand our hopes such as they areinvisible before usuntouched and still possible- W. S. Merwin, “To the New Year” from Present Company What is the sound of a New Year arriving? For some, it may be the willful crack of a firework or the click of the minute hand. The whisper of a beloved in one's sleeping ear. In W.S. Merwin's poem “To the New Year," sunrise touches the tips of a few high leaves, and distant birdsong is heard. This quiet renewal, the lightest touch of a blessing, stirs the poet's senses— so this is the sound of you — and beckons us, the reader, to listen more closely. In the southernmost part of the Caribbean, on the island of Grenada, there is an overlook I like to visit at dusk: a rugged, unnamed cliff at the top of a grassy hill from which the ocean expands into a circular horizon. This is a place one might imagine is hers alone, a place to commune with water, earth, air, and sunlight. Climbing the hill, I find my attention thickening, my pace gradually slowing to the point where someone might come along and find me standing still, un-noticing of their presence. Being suspended between worlds is familiar to me. Among my siblings, I was notoriously difficult to pull away from imaginative play or an absorbing book. My children joke “Wake up, Mommy!” when they find me staring into the middle distance. My closest people are accustomed to my non-sequiturs and kindly allow for stone-skipping conversation. You see, there's the front edge of being here — our feet on the ground, present and accounted for. And then there's the unnamed expanse that speaks through dreams and intuition, the inarticulate, emergent knowing to which we also belong. This is the background into which Merwin listens for the sound of nature's arrival in a New Year, “here and now whether or not anyone hears it.” These are Robert Frost's woods, which he refers to only as “lovely, dark, and deep.” Shifting the lens from background to foreground, foreground to background, we are not lost, but refreshing our focus. A friend who speaks the language of computer programming offers the technical term for this: context-switching. We are sensing our way between worlds, cultivating an integrative awareness.To this, Rumi says “The only real rest comes when you're alone with God. Live in the nowhere that you came from, even though you have an address here.”The passing of one year into the next can be an integrative threshold, a place of unspooling and re-spooling the thread that we follow. We are among the fortunate ones who have returned to where we began a year ago, and a year before that, and so on around the spiral — newly endowed with the green-tipped growth and thickening ring of four more human seasons.We've arrived here before, but never with these present circumstances, never with this specific configuration of consciousness. What will we do with it? We are moving from a year that has been, laid bare for review, and a year that will be, revealed as yet only through trajectory and imagination.This time of year the light returns across a slant of shallow sky, so gradually, almost imperceptibly — who would fault us for not noticing? Dr. Seuss said sometimes we never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.But we do have a choice. We can get quiet enough to listen.What I wish for you is this: listen at the threshold of this New Year. Avoid the overwhelm of a rap sheet of measurable resolutions, and instead open to whatever within is asking for your benevolent attendance. Soften your vigilance and invite your attention to migrate from foreground to background — which is to say, make room for your inner life, from which a single word or theme might just emerge as your compass. If you journal only once a year, let today be your day. For age and knowledge may be as they are but hope is “still invisible before us, untouched and possible.” May you find yourself arriving on higher ground. Get full access to The Guest House at shawnparell.substack.com/subscribe

Meditation: Breathing Our Way to Peace & Freedom - This meditation guides us in collecting attention with an intentional long deep breath, and awakening a full relaxed presence as the breath resumes in its natural rhythm. Resting fully in this presence is the gateway to deep peace and inner freedom. “Little breath breathe me gently, row me, for I am the river I am learning to cross.” – W.S. Merwin

Read by Terry Casburn'Thanks' by W. S. Merwin, explores expressions of gratitude in various challenging circumstances including aftermaths of hospitals, funerals, muggings, wars and amidst the ongoing environmental degradation. Even in the face of adversity and indifference, the recurring theme is a resilient and constant expression of thankfulness.

Matthew 15:21-28; Stephen Merwin, Pastor with RUF-International on the campus of UAB.

The captain is at the cabin with Bob in studio, Jarrid Houston talks about guiding on the St Louis river, and Scott Merwin gives some fishing tips and anecdotes from Lake Osakis.