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Tag: wildness

Featured Poetry

David Keplinger – Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended

January 5, 2025January 4, 2025 Nicholas Trandahl

David Keplinger's beautifully-desolate "Man Leaves Zen Garden Untended" is a masterclass in sacrifice and rewilding.

Tagged Buddhism, Death, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, rebirth, rewilding, wild, wilderness, wildness, ZenLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Samantha Malay – Harvest

November 17, 2024November 14, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Samantha Malay's impeccable "Harvest" is a poem cultivated in the wild liminal space between seed and bounty.

Tagged growth, harvest, liminal space, loss, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, roots, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Beth Gordon – The Crone Humming

September 1, 2024August 29, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

We welcome September with poet Beth Gordon's prose poem "The Crone Humming", a wild hymnal for the unknown and unspeakable.

Tagged age, aging, crone, music, Poem, poet, Poetry, Song, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Charlotte Trumble – As If Wisconsin

August 25, 2024August 22, 2024 Nicholas Trandahl

Charlotte Trumble's "As If Wisconsin" is poem which bristles with wildness, history, setting, and the narrator's own roots.

Tagged history, Judgement, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, roots, tension, wildness, WisconsinLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Michael Grimwood – God Ecology

May 28, 2023May 25, 2023 Nicholas Trandahl

Poet Michael Grimwood takes readers on a journey into divine realms of leaf, blossom, and holiness with his imaginative poem "God Ecology".

Tagged adventure, fantasy, fauna, flora, God, growth, holiness, magic, nature, Poem, poet, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment
Featured Poetry

Joshua C. Allen – The White Oak Peninsula

February 20, 2022February 17, 2022 Nicholas Trandahl

Joshua C. Allen's The White Oak Peninsula is an ode to a place, a nostalgic discourse into earthy wildness and days of youth and adventure that many of us can relate to.

Tagged childhood, friendship, nature, nature writing, nostalgia, Poem, poet, Poetry, wilderness, wildness, youth2 Comments
Featured Poetry

Pamela Denyes – The Fog of October

October 24, 2021October 28, 2021 Nicholas Trandahl

The Fog of October is Pamela Denyes' call to the wild, an invitation to look beneath the surface of the mundane--to the mysticism beyond the veil.

Tagged autumn, awareness, change, growth, mystic, mysticism, nature, nature writing, path, Poem, Poetry, wild, wildnessLeave a comment

TOP POSTS

  • This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
    This is the Life: Annie Dillard Asks, Then What?
  • Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
    Mary Oliver - Teach the Children
  • Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
    Wendell Berry - Do Not Be Ashamed
  • John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
    John O'Donohue - Beannacht / Blessing
  • The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
    The Dexterous Butcher - Zhuangzi
  • Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
    Wislawa Szymborska - Conversation with a Stone
  • Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
    Lucille Clifton - why some people be mad at me sometimes
  • Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
    Sealskin, Soulskin - A Fable About Returning to Our Wild Origins
  • Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
    Mary Oliver - When Death Comes
  • Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark
    Wendell Berry - To Know The Dark

- 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-

  • Riley Danvers – [Soma]tic
    Oregon poet Riley Danvers reveals what it means to be human in a painful state of flux in her avant-garde [Soma]tic.
  • Phach Huynh – Traces
    Ho Chi Minh City poet Phach Huynh reveals all the stories and presences which are held in the lonely silences with his masterful "Traces".
  • A Year of Kō: 14th Sekki
    14th Sekki poems by MADISON WILLIAMS, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
  • Halina Goldstein – How to Play the Gong
    Spiritual teacher and poet Halina Goldstein unfolds a rhythm of vibrancy, glory, and emptiness with her poem "How to Play the Gong".
  • A Year of Kō: 13th Sekki
    13th Sekki poems by BENJAMIN TANNER LLOYD, SHAOMEI YU and ELLIOT DIAMOND
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