Living Poetry

Replay: "Sabbath Poem VIII" by Wendell Berry with Kory Stamper & Joshua Stamper

In honor & celebration of the life of beloved poet Wendell Berry join Kory, Joshua & myself for a replay of this deeply beautiful discussion on one of his poems. Episode 23 "How to Be Alive". Originally published May 20, 2025.

"Sabbath Poem VIII" read at 11:18 and 35:14

"Sabbath Poem VIII", 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

Living Poetry is Back! Welcome to Season Five

Wonder & Pain | Gigi McMurray

"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/12744/trees

Poem read at: 4:48

Gigi McMurray: https://mcmurrayclinic.com/

IG: @gigimc

www.gigimuses.com

Betty Franks: https://www.bettyfranksart.com/

Allender Center Narrative Focused Trauma Care Training:

https://theallendercenter.org/about/nftc/

Awe by Dacher Keltner, 2024

Invitation to Take an Awe Walk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVdmQLI4fG8

This Capacious Life - Ellen Bass

Episode 50

"Thanks" by W.S. Merwin

Poem read at 14:41

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57937/thanks

"Any Common Desolation" by Ellen Bass

Poem read at 24:28

https://poets.org/poem/any-common-desolation

IG: @poetellenbass

https://www.ellenbass.com/

Living Room Craft Talks, The 7th Series with Ellen Bass

https://www.ellenbass.com/events/living-room-craft-talks-the-7th-series/

Living Poetry podcast episodes featuring Series 7 Living Room Craft Talk Poets:

Ellen Bass episode 50

Pádraig Ó Tuama episode 36

Edward Hirsch episodes 17 & 28

Li Young Li episode 25 with Lee Herrick

Joy Harjo episode 8 with Charlotte Donlon

No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women Edited by Florence Howe and Ellen Bass (1973)

https://poets.org/book/no-more-masks-anthology-twentieth-century-american-women-poets

Florence Howe: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/13/us/florence-howe-dead.html

Dorianne Laux: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/dorianne-laux

Frank X. Gaspar: https://poets.org/poet/frank-x-gaspar

"Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver from A New Path to the Waterfall (1989)

"Everything on the Menu" by Ellen Bass from Mules of Love (2013)

The Holiness of Showing Up - Matthias Roberts

Episode 49

"Atheist Out of Necessity" by Jay Hulme

Poem read throughout

The Backwater Sermons Poems by Jay Hulme

IG: @matthiasroberts

www.matthiasroberts.com

podcast: @queerologypod

Beyond Shame: Creating a Healthy Sex Life on Your Own Terms by Matthias Roberts

Holy Run Aways: Rediscovering Faith After Being Burned by Religion by Matthias Roberts

Frindle by Andrew Clements

After the Fire: Just BE - Jen Argue

Episode 48

"Put Your Records On" By Corinne Bailey Rae

https://open.spotify.com/track/2nGFzvICaeEWjIrBrL2RAx?si=5bb3000214b04bad

Lyrics read throughout

Online Life & Business Coach Jen Argue

IG: @life_coaching_collective

www.lifecoachingcollective.com

Bread for the Journey by Henri Nouwen, "Friends and their Limitations" (May 1)

"Three Little Birds" song by Bob Marley & the Wailers

The Rule of Law - Homer Moyer

Episode 47

"Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poem excerpt recited at 12:35

https://www.millerchevalier.com/professional/homer-e-moyer

CEELI Institute: https://ceeliinstitute.org/ (Central and East European Law Initiative founded in 2000 by Homer E Moyer)

The Hidden Jewel of Stockbridge by Homer E Moyer Jr.

Love is the Best Motivator - Hallie Waugh

Episode 46

"Filling Station" by Elizabeth Bishop

Poem read at: 14:05

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52193/filling-station

Poems by Elizabeth Bishop (2011)

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/elizabeth-bishop

"Old Dogs" by Hallie Waugh

Poem read at: 26:27

OKC Metro Library Poet Laureate

https://halliewaugh.com/evere

Substack: https://halliewaugh.substack.com/

IG: @halliewaugh_writer

Scott Cairns: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/scott-cairns

Hope Does Not Dominate - Elisabeth Cunningham

Episode 45

"Hope" by Emily Jane Brontë

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8438205-Hope-by-Emily-Jane-Bront%C3%AB

Poem read at 5:31

"'Hope' is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42889/hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-314

Poem read at 6:40

Elaine Scarry, "to have great pain is to have certainty; to hear that another person has pain is to have doubt.", The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World (1985)

IG: @elisabeth.cunningham

Karen Wright Marsh | Web of Questions

Episode 44

"A Gift" by Denise Levertov

https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/L/LevertovDeni/AGift/index.html

poem read at 12:33

https://onbeing.org/blog/the-gift-of-good-questions/

Vintage Saints and Sinners by Karen Wright Marsh (2017)

Wake Up to Wonder by Karen Wright Marsh (2023)

Wait, What? and Life's Other Essential Questionsby James E. Ryan (2017)

The New York Times: "The 36 Questions that Lead to Love"

Wild Card with Rachel Martin podcast

Pray As You Go podcast

Karen Wright Marsh | Theological Horizons: https://www.theologicalhorizons.org/mission-vision

IG: @theologicalhorizons

Scott Gibson | 2:00 a.m.

Episode 43

"The Well of Grief" by David Whyte

https://allpoetry.com/poem/15379848-The-well-of-grief-by-David-Whyte

poem read at 18:03

Love You Forever by Robert Munsch and Sheila McGraw

Scott Gibson: https://scottlcsw.com

https://theallendercenter.org/about/team/

Men's Recovery Week: https://theallendercenter.org/offerings/workshops/mens-recovery-week/

Kelsey Colón-Schwenk | Oh Good, It's Bad Bunny!

Episode 42

"Lo Que Le Pasó a Hawáii" by Bad Bunny

https://open.spotify.com/track/1Hg0e997pObvZ91w1FCPFk?si=c1b94d0ce8134abd

translated lyrics read at 16:40

Super Bowl LX Halftime Show 2026

Kelsey Colón-Schwenk: https://theseattleschool.edu/faculty-staff/directory/

https://www.kelseyandnate.com/

IG: @kelseylcolon

Lane Cowin | Eyes Wide Open

Episode 41

[you fit into me] by Margaret Atwood

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/151653/you-fit-into-me

read at 15:00 and 20:39

"The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes

A Severe Mercy by Sheldon Vanauken (1977)

Lane Cowin: Redeemer Anglican Church https://redeemerrva.org/team

"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

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

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

Hidden in Plain Sight by Becky Allender

"Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" lyrics by Pete Seeger, 1962 Lyrics at 10:55

"Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" from Songbird by Eva Cassidy, 1998 "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" by Pete Seeger, 1955 https://theallendercenter.org/offerings/trainings https://theallendercenter.org/marriage

No Map for Grief with Vicki Gilliam

Just Be Held song by Casting Crowns

https://open.spotify.com/track/5t35FJYwzRt9MG3ae2O41L?si=qE9TI16rTV25J9ol1oNjkg&nd=1&dlsi=50aba2c1faa54e45

Serge|Grace at the Fray https://give.serge.org/s/donate/a1eRb000000nRGZIA2/51263-worker

Some Books for Care in Grief:

Notes on Grief by Chimamanda by Ngozi Adichie

Daring to Breathe by Armen Bacon

Grieving A Beginners Guide by Jereusha Hull McCormack

Every Moment Holy, Volume II by Douglas McKelvey

As Long as You Need by J.S. Park

The Cure for Sorrow by Jan Richardson

A Grace Disguised Revised and Expanded by Jerry Sittser

The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

Hear Music with Denise Gentilini

Anguish as a Second Language by Denise Gentilini

Lyric read at 14:43

Anguish as a Second Language

https://www.denisegentilini.com

https://www.youtube.com/dgentilini

A Road Less Traveled: The Handjian Story by Denise Gentilini

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hckg0XIpQQg&list=OLAK5uy_kRjlYDdv3sp7M4u6dk_6sbPlOe3rLCUFY&index=2

I AM ALIVE - a new musical

IG:@denisegentilini

Riding Out at Evening by Linda McCarriston, Talking Soft Dutch, Texas Tech University Press.

Thank you to Linda McCarriston and Texas Tech University Press for kind permission and encouragement.

Riding Out at Evening read at 18:30

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=140&issue=3&page=33

The Beatitudes: Jesus taught a series of blessings in the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew in the Bible.

IG: @itsalandrews

https://www.porterscall.com

"Warning" and "Sphere" from Full Circle: New and Selected Poems by Mitsuye Yamada, 2019

"Warning" read at 25:25 "Sphere" read at 34:52

Used with kind permission from the poet. Paper Crane Coaching

Bone by Mary Oliver

Why I Wake Early by Mary Oliver, Beacon Press, Boston

God has planned good things in advance for us. Ephesians 2:10

IG: @storied.living @lorakelleymusic

https://www.storiedliving.org

https://www.lorakelley.com

Spotify: Lora Kelley

https://theallendercenter.org

Perhaps the World Ends Here by Joy Harjo

https://www.joyharjo.com/

charlottedonlon.com

Spiritual Direction for Writers https://www.spiritualdirectionforwriters.com/

Charlotte's podcasts: https://charlottedonlon.com/podcasts

IG @charlottedonlon, @spiritualdirectionforwriters, @ belongingthroughart

Glen workshop in Seattle https://imagejournal.org/2024-the-glen-workshop

The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other by Charlotte Donlon

Psalms

Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World by Pádraig Ó Tuama

Poetry Unbound podcast https://onbeing.org/series/poetry-unbound/

Featured Poetry & Resources:

Rachael Clinton Chen

The Sacrament of Letting Go by Macrina Wiederkehr

Seasons of Your Heart: Prayers and Reflections, Macrina Wiederkehr, O.S.B. Harper One (1991)

The Allender Center Podcast

Inside Out 2 (2024) dir. Kelsey Mann

Featured Poetry & Resources:

Pole Dance by Nita Andrews

Frederic Eugene Basil Foley, MD (1891-1966) American Urologist

The Clearing by Martha Postlethwaite

I Wish in the City of Your Heart by Robley Wilson

The Facts of Life by Pádraig Ó Tuama

The Lanyard by Billy Collins

Dog Songs by Mary Oliver

Denise Levertov, British-born naturalized American poet

William Carlos Williams, American poet & physician

E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Sharon Olds, American poets

Fred Rogers, American television host and author

Paul Cezanne, French impressionist and painter

Creative Lectio

The Talking Day, The Talking Day (Instagram)

Processing Trauma Through Poiesis, Allender Center Podcast w/ Sue Cunningham, May 5, 2023

Featured Poetry & Resources:

Adam Young (website)

You Can Take It With You, Josephine Jacobsen

In the Crevice of Time: New and Collected Poems, Josephine Jacobsen, The Johns Hopkins University Press (1995)

Richard Corey, Edwin Arlington Robinson (1897)

Walter Bruggemann, American Theologian

John Donne, English poet, scholar, soldier

Teresa of Avila, Carmelite nun, Spanish mystic

The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses, C.S. Lewis

The Allender Center Podcast with John Cunningham - July 4, 2015

The Allender Center Podcast with John Cunningham - July 11, 2015

Featured Fiction & Resources:

Deborah M. Prum

Help

Our Lady of Perpetual Mold

Gravity

Last Boy Leaving

In Darkness as in Light

Perfect Days (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

The Weight of Glory by CS Lewis

The Mind of the Maker by Dorothy Sayers

Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith by Anne Lamott

Lisa Cooper Ellison

Featured Poets & Resources: Revolutionary Dreams by Nikki Giovanni The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni 1968-1998, Harper Perennial

Healing the Wounded Heart, Dan B. Allender, Baker Books Appendix, The Implications for African-American Women by Linda Royster

Beauty for Ashes Counseling, PLLC — Giving Voice to Story

Bearing Witness to Stories of Sexual Abuse and Racial Trauma Dan Allender, Sue Cunningham, and Linda Royster

Featured Poetry & Resources:

Dan Allender God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins Psalm 23 2 Corinthians 4:10 Romans 8 Revelation 21, 22 N.T. Wright

The Seattle School of Theology and Psychology The Allender Center

Books by Dan Allender

Featured Poets & Resources: The Word by Tony Hoagland Gerard Manley Hopkins Billy Collins Naomi Shihab Nye William Stafford Mary Oliver T.S. Eliot Kathleen Norris

National Association for Poetry Therapy Academy of American Poets The Poetry Foundation Lighthouse Writers, Denver Lectio Divina

Books by Joy Roulier Sawyer: Tongues of Men and Angels Lifeguards Dancing to the Heartbeat of Redemption Biblio/Poetry Therapy