The local news asked me to share what I’ve been doing for the pandemic. Writing poems, of course. Here I share three. May you be well.
The local news asked me to share what I’ve been doing for the pandemic. Writing poems, of course. Here I share three. May you be well.
On April 3, 2020, I did an online reading with Albert Flynn DeSilver, author of Writing as a Path Toward Awakening. I read poems written in the first three weeks of Shelter in Place, Albert read recent and relevant poems, and it concludes with an audience-led conversation about the role poetry …
In this free “workshop” hosted by the Ah Haa School, I read poems by Ellen Bass, Ada Limón, William Stafford and Thich Nhat Hahn and offer ideas for writing your own poems. I also read a few poems of my own in response to coronavirus–and create a spontaneous poem from …
Fear has been showing up a lot lately as the globe faces a pandemic–and yet there are ways to meet it so that it doesn’t over come us. In this poem, Staying Home, published on A First Sip, I look at what else might show up to keep fear from …
In these strange days of quarantine, there is still this great draw toward love. That’s the heart of the poem “The Most Important Thing” published on A First Sip.
Writing a poem can be great medicine. Perhaps you’d like to try a simple format–a list poem. Yes William Stafford It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That’s why we wake and look out––no guarantees in …
All of us had a moment when the pandemic became real. Mine is related to watching avalanches. I wrote about it in this poem, The Afternoon the World Health Organization Declared the Pandemic, chosen for Rattle.com’s Poets Respond.
What does one of the most brilliant and compassionate minds of our time have to say about human action/inaction and climate crisis? I got to interview Jane Hirshfield about her new book Ledger, a poetic and scientific account of the ecological reckoning we now face. Our conversation was published in The …
And wouldn’t it be nice it the world just told us flat out what we were doing here? That’s the theme of this poem I wrote for the beautiful photograph “Bound” by Natalie Seabolt, and it was selected as Editor’s Choice for the Rattle Ekphrastic challenge! You can even download …
It’s a new year, and Christie Aschwanden and Rosemerry have a whole new season of Emerging Form dropping on January 30. We’ve also got some changes in the works. We will continue releasing regular episodes every other Thursday, but we’re also introducing some new stuff this year. We’ve hired a …