Living Poetry

Carla Funk | Gifts of Boredom Episode 40 "The Book of Knowledge" by Patrick Lane read at 17:20 Patrick Lane https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/patrick-lane "Fumbling Towards the Star" by Carla Funk read at 25:25 Mennonite Valley Girl: A Wayward Coming of Age by Carla Funk (2021) https://www.carlafunk.com/ IG @carla_funk Attention Restoration Theory (ART) (Kaplan, 1989, 1995) suggests that mental fatigue and concentration can be improved by time spent in, or looking at nature.

Corey Widmer | Be Still & Know I am Lost Episode 39 "Lost" David Wagoner poem read at 10:18 Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems (1999) Corey leads a brief Centering Prayer Practice Psalm 46: "Be still and know I am God." begins at 31:21 Corey Widmer: https://www.thirdrva.org/leadership-staff-directory/corey-widmer Intimacy with God: An Introduction to Centering Prayer by Thomas Keating (2009) The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living by Hilary McBride (2021) Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems edited by Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R Wilson (2017)

Evan Cunningham | Laughing Over the Bass Solo Episode 38 "1960" by Billy Collins The Rain in Portugal: Poems by Billy Collins, 2016 poem read at 15:00 "Favorite Poet" by Evan Cunningham read at 26:10 "Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46712/introduction-to-poetry The Apple that Astonished Paris by Billy Collins, 1988. The Legendary BILL EVANS TRIO 1960 Birdland Sessions f. Scott LeFaro, Paul Motian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eox5CRjcQW8

Gail Worsham Pitt | Let Doves Come Episode 37 "Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon, Otherwise, 1996 poem read at 6:36 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46431/let-evening-come Dovehouse Ministries, Nashville, TN  dovehouseministries.com First We Were Loved by Gail Worsham Pitt, 2017 Pray as You Go: https://prayasyougo.org/

Pádraig Ó Tuama | In the Laboratory of God Episode 36 "Emerging" by RS Thomas read at:08:21 "Do You Believe in God?" by Padraig Ó Tuama read at: 21:13 Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama (2025) RS Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f40toY38ZSc "Via Negativa" Ted Hughes, "Crow"  (1970) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ted-hughes TS Eliot "Four Quartets"  https://poets.org/poet/t-s-eliot The Angelus prayer commemorates the Incarnation, traditionally recited three times a day, often accompanied by bells.  Paul Valéry, "God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness pushes through." Terry Pratchett, "In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded." ― Lords and Ladies Emily Dickinson, "'Nothing' is the force/That renovates the World -" The Morton Deutsch-International Center for Cooperation and Conflict Resolution (MD-ICCCR) at Teachers College, Columbia University:  https://www.conflictintelligence.org/ciq-the-science  

Vanessa Sadler | Kendrick Lamar: Dollars & Change Episode 35 contains explicit language and mature lyrical content Kendrick Lamar "How Much a Dollar Cost" from To Pimp a Butterfly https://open.spotify.com/search/how%20much%20a%20dollar%20cost Lyrics read throughout Vanessa Sadler: Abiding Story: https://www.abidinginstory.com/ IG: @vksadler The Allender Center podcast: Healing with Spiritual Direction, August 30, 2024 https://theallendercenter.org/2024/08/healing-with-spiritual-direction-with-vanessa-sadler/ https://dissectpodcast.com/2016/11/22/s1e13-how-much-a-dollar-cost-by-kendrick-lamar-from-to-pimp-a-butterfly/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CHow%20Much%20a%20Dollar%20Cost%3F%E2%80%9D%20will%20force%20Kendrick's%20hand,refuses%20due%20to%20his%20selfishness. Center for Spiritual Imagination: https://www.spiritualimagination.org/

Scott Sawyer | Chaotic Incidents & Detained Immigrants Episode 34 The House that Love Built by Sarah Jackson with Scott Sawyer, 2020 excerpt read at 18:12 Chuck Prophet, "It's a Good Day to Be Alive", from Wake the Dead, 2024 lyrics read at 26:25 "I Want Everything" Susan Haroutunian Cunningham poem read at 32:50 Earthly Fathers, A Memoir by Scott Sawyer, 2001 SJS Communications

Heather Stringer | A Healing Hum Episode 33 This episode contains material of a sensitive nature. "Hum, Hum" by Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems, 2013 poem read at 16:36 Life in Ritual https://www.lifeinritual.com/ IG: @life_in_ritual The Allender Center Blog: https://theallendercenter.org/author/hstringer/ Peter Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, (1997) Maria Shriver Interviews the Famously Private Poet Mary Oliver, Oprah magazine: https://www.oprah.com/entertainment/maria-shriver-interviews-poet-mary-oliver Makers & Mystics podcast: Ritual Making & Performance Art with Heather Stringer  https://www.makersandmystics.com/makersandmystics/2020/3/26/s7-e03-ritual-making-amp-performance-art-with-heather-stringer    

Logan Baker | How to Kill Community Episode 32 "How do you create community?" by Tad Hargrave Tad Hargrave Substack: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/p/how-do-you-create-community-a-poem Poem read at: 12:11 Logan Baker: https://blueridgewilderness.com/who-we-are/our-team/logan-baker-lpc IG: @blueridgewilderness David Wilcox, "We Make the Way by Walking", The View from the Edge (2018) https://open.spotify.com/track/5l7iJR7kcyVUFSq8xtTKhX?si=21c9757de6bd4877 Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (1986) Rainer Maria Rilke, "Duino Elegies: The Fourth Elegy"  Port William & "The Membership"--fictional American rural town found in novels, short stories and some of poems of Wendell Berry.    

Elise Kazanjian | More is Less Episode 31 Naomi Shiab Nye https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/naomi-shihab-nye Poem read at: 17:18 No More More More More by Elise Kazanjian Read at: 18:13 Persimmon Tree Online Journal https://persimmontree.org/spring-2025/the-poetry-of-naomi-shihab-nye/ "Gate A-4" Naomi Shihab Nye https://poets.org/poem/gate-4 "Musical Chairs and a Wide Swing" Susan Haroutunian Cunningham Passager Issue 75  Kathleen McClung https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-mcclung Jane Hirshfield  https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/jane-hirshfield Kevin Fagan The Lost and the Found: A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family, and Second Chances  

Mark Hargreaves | Drag Queens & Being Seen Episode 30 contains some explicit language and mature lyrical content Flamy Grant "Esther, Ruth and Rahab" Composer, Lyricist: Matthew Blake Lovegood https://open.spotify.com/album/6vmert3QxJdgHPl2PSJoEb?flow_ctx=2762f36f-e708-48d6-b6bf-268c929aa24f:1759204849#login Lyrics read at: 17:38 https://www.flamygrant.com/ https://sjbts.org/ The Distinct Modernism of San Diego by Rev Dr. Mark Hargreaves (2025) The Sacred Architecture of Irving J. Gill, by  Rev Dr. Mark Hargreaves, (2023) Barry Humphries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Humphries  

Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer| | Tell Me Something True Episode 29 "The Thing Is" Ellen Bass https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151844/the-thing-is "A Letter Sent Back in Time to Schumann"  Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer https://ahundredfallingveils.com/2025/06/29/a-letter-sent-back-in-time-to-schumann/ "The Thing Is" read at 12:49 "A Letter Sent Back in Time" read at 23:09 https://www.wordwoman.com IG: @rosemerry.trommer Blog: "A Hundred Falling Veils", To subscribe: https://ahundredfallingveils.com Ritual: Wellbeing Practices app: "The Poetic Path" Shel Silverstein https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Silverstein E.E. Cummings https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/90442/ee-cummings-101 Ellen Bass https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ellen-bass Robert Schumann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems edited by Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R Wilson  

Get ready for Season 3 of Living Poetry! I'm back with more incredible guests with powerful poetry for thought provoking and consoling conversations. You'll be challenged and encouraged. I'm so excited to share these conversations with you.

Edward Hirsch - The Everyday Episode 28 Edward Hirsch reads "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe (1997) at 9:33 https://youtu.be/VWabOtq10UI?si=8bz-f7gRimUEOOKj 100 Poems to Break Your Heart, Edward Hirsch (2021) Listen to: Living Poetry Episode 17 Poetry as Memorial  - Edward Hirsch "I Am!", John Clare (1865) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43948/i-am Gerard Manley Hopkins Terrible Sonnets: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/audio/76757/his-dark-places Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew by Josh Felstiner

Ashley M. Jones - The Point of Art Episode 27 "Lullaby for the Grieving", Ashley M. Jones, From You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World (Milkweed Editions, 2024), edited by Ada Limón read at 14:07 Lullaby for the Grieving, 2025 Reparations, Now!, 2021 https://ashleymjonespoetry.com/ "Won't You Celebrate With Me" by Lucille Clifton: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50974/wont-you-celebrate-with-me Honey, I Love and Other Love Poems by Eloise Greenfield (1985) Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People by Imani Perry (2025) Instagram: @cityofawoman Alabama's 13th Poet Laureate Alabama School of Fine Arts: https://www.asfaschool.org/ Magic City Poetry Festival: https://www.magiccitypoetryfestival.org/ O, Miami Poetry Festival: https://omiami.org/poetry-festival/  

Joan Shearer - Hope While Despairing  Episode 26 This episode contains material of a sensitive nature that may be triggering for some individuals. "The Forest" by Nikita Gill read at 11:50 and 13:01 Instagram: @nikita_gill Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma: https://youtu.be/nmJOuTAk09g?feature=shared 

Lee Herrick -  The Art of Memory Episode 25 "This Room and Everything in It", Li-Young Lee, The City in Which I Love You (1990) read at 13:27 In Praise of Late Wonder (2024) Scar and Flower (2019) leeherrick.com California's 10th Poet Laureate Fresno City College: https://www.fresnocitycollege.edu/ Li Young Lee Reading "This Room and Everything In It" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAeCqCAwpo Coalition to End Social Isolation & Loneliness: https://www.social-connection.org/partnerships/coalition-to-end-social-isolation-loneliness/    

Joshua Stamper with Kory Stamper - A Larger World Episode 24 "Sonnet IV, Part 1", Sonnets to Orpheus read at 9:51 and 36:04 "Sonnet IV, Part 1", Sonnets to Orpheus, Rainer Maria Rilke, (translated By M.D. Herter Norton)  (1962) https://www.joshuastamper.com/ Instagram: @joshuastampermusic

Kory Stamper with Joshua Stamper - How to Be Alive  Episode 23 "Sabbath Poem VI" read at 11:18 and 35:14 "Sabbath Poem VI", Wendell Berry, This Day: Collected & New Sabbath Poems (2014) Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (2017) History of Swear Words, Netflix series (2021) Instagram: @harmless_drudge

Luci Shaw- Available to Surprises Episode 22 "The Old Barns of Skagit County" (2025) read at 05:45 "Pleasures" (2025) read at 19:25 "Anticipation" (2020) read at 33:38 https://lucishaw.com/ An Incremental Life (2025) Reversing Entropy (2024) The Generosity (2020) https://renovare.org/podcast/luci-shaw-madeleine-lengle