Living Poetry

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

Winn Collier - What is Real Episode 21 “A Brief for the Defense” Jack Gilbert read at 10:30 https://poetrysociety.org/poems/a-brief-for-the-defense https://winncollier.com Instagram: @winncollier Substack: winncollier.substack.com A Burning in My Bones The Authorized Biography of Eugene Peterson (2022) The Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination https://petersoncenter.org/a-burning-in-my-bones-the-biography-of-eugene-peterson/

Sandra McCracken - Bless the Space Episode 20 “A Morning Offering”, John O’Donohue from To Bless the Space Between Us Read at 15:56 “The Space Between”, Sandra McCracken, Cindy Morgan, Gabe Dixon from Christmas Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/1AbUIe7rsWEscPcKKqNhYm?si=AZN8de5LRA2PBz5PV7MvYQ&nd=1&dlsi=8210ae6ded90403b Lyrics read at 23:00 https://www.sandramccracken.com/ Instagram: @sandramccracken The Maker of the Mountain by Sandra McCracken and Tim Nicholson, illustrated by Fia Tobing (2025) Light in the Canyon Songs from the Valley Psalms On Being with Krista Tippett: John O’Donohue The Inner Landscape of Beauty https://onbeing.org/programs/john-odonohue-the-inner-landscape-of-beauty/  

Carol Edgarian - Character & Contradiction Episode 19 “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven” by William Butler Yeats read at: 12:42 Rise the Euphrates excerpt read at: 14:55 Vera excerpt read at: 26:58 https://www.caroledgarian.com/ Instagram: @c.edgarian, A Word, Please! February 24, 2025: “Giornata”: Italian> days work March 10, 2025: “Gar Oo Chugar”: Armenian> There was and there was not Instagaram: @Narrativemag Rise the Euphrates (1994) Three Stages of Amazement (2012) Vera (2022)

Lisa Sharon Harper - Face the Wind Episode 18 Show Notes:  Beyoncé, "AMERIICAN REQUIEM, Cowboy Carter (2024) Lyrics read at 13:32 “AMERIICAN REQUIEM” Spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/track/6K2Iut8nSQigP83yvbiqi8?si=b9111b62b53145e0 https://lisasharonharper.com/ Instagram: @lisasharonharper @freedomroad.us Freedom Road podcast Fortune (2022) The Very Good Gospel (2016) An’ Push Da Wind Down: A Play in Two Acts (1998)

Edward Hirsch - Poetry as Memorial  Episode 17 “Cotton Candy” read at 9:15 “Cotton Candy”, The Living Fire (2010) https://poets.org/poem/cotton-candy Excerpts from “Gabriel” p.13, read at 25:38 (Issa, The world of dew) p.73, read at 31:56 (The work of mourning) Gabriel: A Poem (2014) https://www.edwardhirsch.com/gabriel-a-poem-2/ Kobayashi Issa, Japanese poet 1763-1828 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kobayashi-issa Greek myth of Sisyphus: eternally pushes a boulder uphill only for it to roll back down as he reaches the top. https://www.edwardhirsch.com/ https://www.gf.org/  John Șimon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry (1999) 100 Poems to Break Your Heart (2021)

Season 2 of Living Poetry is on the way! We had so much fun during Season 1 where my guests brought favorite poems, song lyrics, and passages as a portal into conversations about what moves them in this life and what it means to them and to us to be more human. We’re back for more starting April 8! 

Living Poetry Show Notes: Episode 16 Slow Down with Mary Ellen Owen “You wake the dead to life” by Rumi Poem read at 12:42 “Gold” by Haleh Liza Gafori, New York Review of Books, 2022 Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama, Dec. 12, 2022 https://onbeing.org/programs/rumi-you-wake-the-dead-to-life/  https://theallendercenter.org/about/team/mary-ellen-owen/ Helena Bonham Carter reads “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DB3obZhi8ZR/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D Ecstasy of Saint Teresa sculpture by Lorenzo Bernini: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa https://www.estherperel.com/?categories=Eroticism Ireland’s Holy Wells: https://www.irelands-hidden-gems.com/irelands-holy-wells.html John14:6, Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life … ”

Living Poetry Show Notes: Episode 15 Study Beauty with John Cunningham “The Power of Taste” by Zbigniew Herbert https://allpoetry.com/poem/14330389-The-Power-Of-Taste-by-Zbigniew-Herbert Poem read at 15:23 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czesław_Miłosz “My Back Pages” by Bob Dylan: https://www.bobdylan.com/songs/my-back-pages/ “The Prayer of the Traveler Mr.Cogito” by Zbigniew Herbert http://only-the-imagination.blogspot.com/2012/06/prayer-of-traveler-mr-cogito.html “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, English poet, literary style: Romanticism Symposium  A dialogue by Plato c.385-370 BC. "O Come O Come Emmanuel” sung by Evan Cunningham, Reindeer Tribe, Feliz Navidad, 2024 https://open.spotify.com/track/3r8wseOEz5bjSjxO0En2sY?si=37ca6e077a2045ca IG @johncunninghamclay https://www.cunninghamclay.com