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Billy Collins

Billy Collins – The Dead

June 2, 2021May 25, 2021 Vanessa Able

Billy Collins runs with the folkloric notion that the dead are watching us and pushes the image all the way to a reverie of the departed 'rowing themselves slowly through eternity' in glass-bottomed boats.

Jonathan Koven

Featured Poetry

Jonathan Koven – Stilled Wings Will Soar

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Vanessa Able

Inspired by the desire to point at a star and give it a name: Jonathan Koven's 'Stilled Wings Will Soar'

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.
What Can the Earth’s Crisis Teach Us About Ourselves? David Hinton’s Tao of Ecology
David Hinton on what Taoism can teach us about Deep Ecology and how we can reconnect with our own ancient Paleolithic roots.
‘When the Lights of Health Go Down’- Virginia Woolf on Being Ill
Virginia Woolf on our relationship to illness, its potential spiritual value, and the mysterious intelligence of the body.
Life Includes All Opposites – Alan Watts on the Oneness of the Tao
The psychology of acceptance and the understanding 'that there is only one ultimate reality or source of activity in the universe.'
The Sacred Pulse of Night and Day
Deborah Eden Tull explores the experience of darkness and how it can be a transformative and expansive human experience.