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2021 January/February
Re/VIEW: Nikki Giovanni
“Giovanni brings a voice of discernment and solidity to our disquiet times. She sees the pandemic as carving out a spiritual space within us.”
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• Poetry
2021 January/February
Making the Mind Leap
Searching for the heart of haiku through Allan Ginsberg and Basho.
2021 January/February
Winter Homes
“There is nothing as warm and wonderful as winter. Good books. A friendly dog. Homemade soup. How could I not love the idea of the coming season?”
2020 November/December
The Garland
I would like to be laid to rest in a big tomb topped by a stone figure of an angel, who appears to have landed there in order to sob forevermore, her face buried in her bent arm, …Tags:
• Poetry
2020 November/December
re/VIEW: Barbara Kingsolver
“I find comfort in my work, because when I walk into my office and close the door, I completely leave my own life. In some ways I’m shouldering the human condition, which is a lot of weight there, but when I’m writing, when it’s going well, I have completely forgotten myself.”
Book Talk
The Way of Gratitude: A Minister’s View on Connection
The Way of Gratitude author and prominent Unitarian Universalist minister Galen Guengerich dives deep on faith, belonging, morality, and, of course, gratitude.
2020 July/August
A Light Store in the Bowery
“Some love is like a light store / you slip inside only to escape”
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• Poetry
Poem: Burren Messenger
“I kept turning to the horse, / erect in stillness and gravity / and a strange promise of balm,”
2020 May/June
The Way of the Soul
Inspired by Rumi’s poetry, deep curiosity, and a wish to learn more about Islam, Kate Green Tripp, a Santa Cruz-based editor and yoga teacher, traveled to Turkey.
Poem: Practice
“Poems soften fear’s fixities and despair’s immobility, return the heart-mind to openness and the possibility for change that come with the knowledge of interconnection and shared fate.”
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• Poetry
