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Featured Poetry

Paul Kiernan – After the Funeral Rites

October 8, 2023October 5, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Florida poet Paul Kiernan gives voice and humanity to one of the most maligned women of classical poetry, Helen of Troy.

Tagged ancient greek, Death, destiny, epic, fate, Homer, loss, love, perspective, Poem, poet, PoetryLeave a comment
Ernest Hemingway
Book Bits

La Mar, El Mar: Ernest Hemingway’s Kind, Beautiful, Cruel Ocean

July 9, 2021July 9, 2021 Vanessa Able

Ernest Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea', has to be one of the most accomplished accounts of a lifetime's intimacy with the sea.

Tagged cruelty, fate, femenine, luck, ocean, sea, Silence, struggle2 Comments
Theodore Roethke
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Theodore Roethke – The Waking

July 22, 2020July 22, 2020 Vanessa Able

Theodore Roethke was an intensely introspective poet whose work has been hailed by critics as some of the finest American poetry from the last century.

Tagged Awakening, awareness, fate, Fear, learning, Poetry, wakingLeave a comment
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TOP POSTS

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Tangen Harada Roshi
    Seeing Into the Reality of Emptiness
    Zen Master Tangen Harada Roshi on how understanding the truth of emptiness can reveal Original Mind.
  • Susan Bauer-Wu
    The Problem With Business As Usual – On Interconnectedness and the Climate Crisis
    Inspired by the work of the Dalai Lama and Greta Thunberg, Susan Bauer-Wu's book is her personal expression of concern for the earth.
  • Orhan Pamuk
    Orhan Pamuk on Writing By Hand
    Orhan Pamuk's hand-writing habit hasn't budged, despite the conventions of our time.
  • Pema Chodron
    How We Live Is How We Die: Pema Chödrön on Preparing for Death Here and Now
    Pema Chödrön on what the Tibetan approach to living and dying can teach us about liberation in the present moment.
  • Barbara Brown Taylor
    The Path that Goes Nowhere – Barbara Brown Taylor on the Practice of Labyrinth Walking
    Barbara Brown Taylor reflects on her own experience of Labyrinth-walking and the significance of the path without a destination.


- POETRY-

  • Sahar Fathi – All-the-time Home
    Iranian-American poet Sahar Fathi offers a discourse on longing and nostalgia with her incredibly poignant poem "All-the-time Home".
  • Corinne Hughes – Cullen Island, Anacortes
    In "Cullen Island, Anacortes" poet Corinne Hughes reveals brash and radiant liberation from the unwelcome masculine darknesses of the past.
  • Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules
    Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.
  • Amanda Niamh Dawson – Prayer for a Mantis
    An encounter with a praying mantis on a doorstep becomes a lesson in compassion and gratitude in Amanda Niamh Dawson's "Prayer for a Mantis".
  • Betsy Fogelman Tighe – My Spiritual Practice
    Through the lens of nature, poet Betsy Fogelman Tighe reveals a practical and inclusive form of worship in "My Spiritual Practice".
 

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