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Featured Poetry

Gary Keenan – Big Day

March 22, 2026March 21, 2026 Nicholas Trandahl

Writing from the Colombian Andes, poet Gary Keenan's poem "Big Day" is a chaotic cacophony collapsing into the soft rosy amber of stillness.

Tagged chaos, imagination, language, memory, peace, Poem, poet, Poetry, present moment, release, time1 Comment
Featured Poetry

Megan Lynn Hall – On Doctor’s Recommendation

April 6, 2025April 10, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Megan Lynn Hall escorts us into discomfort and release with her intense impactful poem "On Doctor's Recommendation".

Tagged agency, control, escape, Fear, massage, Poem, poet, Poetry, power, release, resist, survival, violation, vulnerability2 Comments
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

Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules

November 12, 2023November 9, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.

Tagged hike, hiking, letting go, nature, outdoors, Poem, poet, Poetry, release, sorrow, unburdening1 Comment

TOP POSTS

  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
    What is Love? Love is a Verb - bell hooks
  • Stephen Levine - Millennium Blessing
    Stephen Levine - Millennium Blessing
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Claudia Kessel - Samsara
    Claudia Kessel - Samsara
  • Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
    Ursula le Guin and the Importance of Imagination
  • Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
    Letting Go of Hope - Pema Chodron
  • DT Suzuki on Eckhart, God's Love and Prajña
    DT Suzuki on Eckhart, God's Love and Prajña

- BOOK BITS -

  • Don’t Waste Suffering: Ramiro López Larroy on Opening the Doors of Liberation
    How can we use the things that give us difficulty in our lives to learn and grow, rather than avoiding them, or trying to push them away?
  • 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.


- POETRY-

  • Claudia Kessel – Samsara
    In her epic "Samsara", poet Claudia Kessel leans the ancient tenants of Buddhism against the gritty reality of the 21st Century.
  • A Year of Kō: 16th Sekki
    16th Sekki poems by COLEMAN DAVIS, MADISON WILLIAMS and SHAOMEI YU
  • Bob Rama – Ascetic Aesthetics
    Translator and poet Bob Rama shines a little candlelight on ascetic renunciation in his pleasingly-titled poem "Ascetic Aesthetics".
  • Emily Tong – Girlhood Ghazal
    Using the ancient poetic form of the ghazal, Asian-American poet Emily Tong searches for home in her "Girlhood Ghazal".
  • A Year of Kō: 15th Sekki
    15th Sekki poems by SHAOMEI YU, COLEMAN DAVIS AND NADINE LEITSO
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