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Surrender? Oooph. As part of her powerful grief work with Wild Heart and her Holy Lament Community, the luminous Mirabai Starr gave the writing prompt The Medicine of Surrender Is ____. My response is this poem, published today in the wonderful Vox Populi. Happy First Day of National Poetry Month! …

It was not an easy conversation, but I was grateful to my beloved friend Rebecca Mullen for inviting me to explore with her how my husband and I met the death of our son, Finn. I was able to see some new things–and to feel exceptionally grateful for how we …

What stories do we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world? How do they become scaffolding? How do they open us or hinder us? How can our art help us meet grief? How can grief become an invitation to fall more deeply in love with life? All these subjects and …

When a beloved dies, how can we best support the children and families who still live? I am so grateful to Evermore for inviting me to be their first poet laureate. I love the nonprofit’s vision in this endeavor, bringing the arts alongside their legislative and scientific efforts to transform …

Every other year, the Ars Nova Singers host “Shared Visions,” a collaborative program in which they invite Colorado artists to submit pieces that are viewed by Colorado poets who write about these pieces. Their poems are viewed by four Colorado composers who each select a poem to create a piece …

I so enjoyed my hour-long conversation with the luminous Kara Johnstad on her show Voice Rising–she’s one of my favorite interviewers. We spoke about poetry, Rilke, embracing the full spectrum of experience, life and death and light and dark and imagination and shadow and inspiration and more … plus we …

Since 2019, Christie Aschwanden and I have been collaborating to create a podcast on creative process–Emerging Form. What a fabulous passion project–something we’ve done for love and curiosity, and oh my goodness, how many wonderful conversations we’ve had with writers, poets, scientists, musicians, comedians, actors, philosophers, athletes, artists, circus performers …

I feel so crazy lucky that Jennifer Kent of University of Nevada–Reno created this beautiful 10-minute video as part of the Lake Tahoe speaker series. Shot at the Lake Tahoe campus in September 2023, it features me reading three poems–“For When People Ask,” “Simple Tools” and “Untamed”–and also conversing about …

I’ve long been drawn to the Judd’s Hill Poetry contest, which caught my eye back in 2016 because the prize is a double magnum of cab! And the contest is for poems written about wine. This year, I won! With a poem about mom’s wine glasses … You can read …

The One You Feed podcast put together this special episode to pay tribute to the late poet, Mary Oliver.  Special guests James Crews, Danusha Lameris, Ross Gay, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, and Ginny Gay each read one of their favorite Mary Oliver poems and share why the poem is meaningful to …