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Featured Poetry

Sarah Karowski – Clumsy

July 7, 2024July 5, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In Sarah Karowski's imaginative prose poem "Clumsy", we are witness to beauty and magic blooming from the grittiness of hurt.

Tagged flowers, growth, healing, nature, pain, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rejuvenation, Spiritual GrowthLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jo Matthews – And what about prayers

February 11, 2024February 8, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

In her powerful three-part poem "And what about prayers", poet Jo Matthews explores the potential and constraints of prayer and faith.

Tagged doubt, faith, God, healing, holiness, Poem, poet, Poetry, prayer, prayers, praying, religion, SpiritualityLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Corinne Hughes – Cullen Island, Anacortes

November 19, 2023November 16, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

In "Cullen Island, Anacortes" poet Corinne Hughes reveals brash and radiant liberation from the unwelcome masculine darknesses of the past.

Tagged childhood, Freedom, healing, Joy, letting go, liberation, past, Poem, poet, Poetry, release, traumaLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Jocelyn Ulevicus – Breathing and Swallowing in Montreal, 2017

July 2, 2023June 29, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

A hush encounters uncertainty and transformation in Jocelyn Ulevicus's pensive curious poem, "Breathing and Swallowing in Montreal, 2017".

Tagged breathing, Distance, God, healing, hope, life, Montreal, Poem, poet, Poetry, uncertaintyLeave a comment
Interview, Podcast

Engaging in Compassionate Action: Pamela Ayo Yetunde

May 31, 2023June 19, 2023 Vanessa Able

A conversation with Pamela Ayo Yetunde about spirituality, interconnectedness, and the need to foster understanding and compassion in today's world.

Tagged Buddhism, community, Compassion, healing, Indra's Net, interbeing, Interconnectedness, interdependence, Social Change, social justice, spiritual kinshipLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

David Anthony Martin – The After

November 6, 2022November 3, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Colorado poet and outdoorsman David Anthony Martin reminds us of the inevitability of life and tomorrows with his poem "The After".

Tagged amends, daily life, future, growth, healing, life, Poem, poet, Poetry, Suffering, Wisdom2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Rebecca Doverspike – Choreography

October 23, 2022October 27, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

In her poem "Choreography", interfaith chaplain Rebecca Doverspike dances from wind, pines, and leaves, to the mental workings of an elderly patient.

Tagged beauty, Death, healing, impermanence, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, timeLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

K. E. Ogden – Daily Labor

July 3, 2022June 30, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Blending domesticity and earthy natural imagery, Los Angeles poet K. E. Ogden presents readers with quite the scene in three short stanzas.

Tagged childhood, growth, healing, human nature, motherhood, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, purificationLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Eloise Klein Healy – Iris

May 8, 2022May 5, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Eloise Klein Healy, former Poet Laureate of Los Angeles, has encapsulated so much in the two short stanzas of her poem "Iris".

Tagged blossom, Courage, Death, flowers, growth, healing, love, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, springLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Kurtis Ebeling – Snowmelt

May 1, 2022April 28, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

With the quietude of the rising sun and melting snow, Kurtis Ebeling's "Snowmelt" serves as an ode to springtime and a requiem to winter.

Tagged environment, growth, healing, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rejuvenation, restoration, spring, winter, wintertime, ZenLeave a comment

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- BOOK BITS -

  • Rick Ruben
    “Expanding the Universe” – Rick Rubin on Awareness in Creativity
    What is the role of awareness in creativity and how can we cultivate it to make our world a bigger and clearer place?
  • Thich Nhat Hanh
    The First Door of Liberation: Thich Nhat Hanh’s Vision of Emptiness and Interbeing
    Rather than signifying a lack or a void, Thich Nhat Hanh took emptiness to be a state of inextricable and fundamental interconnectedness.
  • Mike Travisano – Bob’s Tattoos
    A short story on the power of three simple words and how much they can mean and embody.
  • Shunryu Suzuki
    Sharing the Feeling: Zen Teacher Shunryu Suzuki on Becoming Ourselves
    The importance of keeping an empty mind for savoring the present and expressing ourselves in our most authentic way.
  • Ray Bradbury
    Running After Loves – Ray Bradbury on Fostering Hunger in Writing
    Finding the truth of our authentic passions is the key to forming the foundations of a writing practice


- POETRY-

  • Jonathan Jones – man in the rain
    It's not without harshness and brutal honesty that poet Jonathan Jones lays out all the discomforts of reality in his poem "man in the rain".
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  • Nathan Bakken – How to Be a Theologian
    Poet and theologian Nathan Bakken writes a three-part discourse on working in faith with his poem "How to Be a Theologian".
  • Richard Pettigrew – Drunken Flora
    Surfer-poet of Hawaii, Richard Pettigrew, once again swings by The Dewdrop, this time with a botanical tragedy "Drunken Flora".
  • Constance Clark – This Heat Sculpts a Spell
    Allow the summer heat of Constance Clark's "This Heat Sculpts a Spell" soak into you, as her poem unfolds its petals as an ode to connection.
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