Poems for the Speed of Life
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Poems for the Speed of Life is a podcast to bring the power of poetry to your day.
Each episode includes a reading of a one poem, some thoughts and ideas, and an invitation to allow it to speak to you however it does.
Poetry is a vital exploration of the world, of ourselves, of ourselves in the world.
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Ep. 212: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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Ep. 211: "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove
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Mar 04, 2024 |
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Ep. 210: Three Cantos from "In Memoriam AHH" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Mar 01, 2024 |
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Ep. 209: "The birthday of the world" by Marge Piercy
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Feb 29, 2024 |
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Ep. 208: "The Fisherman", by WB Yeats
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Ep. 207: "This is not the end" by Tanner Olson
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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Ep. 206: "Dawn at St Patrick's" by Derek Mahon
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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Ep. 205: "Beginning" by Lia Purpura
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Feb 23, 2024 |
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Ep. 204: "For a New Beginning" by John O'Donohue
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Feb 22, 2024 |
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Ep. 203: "Center of the Universe" by Hannah Emerson
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Ep. 202: "Aristotle" by Billy Collins
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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Ep. 201: "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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Ep. 200: A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life
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Feb 05, 2024 |
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Ep. 199: “A Christmas Blessing” by John O’Donohue
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Dec 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 198: "Blessing for the Longest Night" by Jan Richardson
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Dec 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 196: "A Child's Christmas in Wales", by Dylan Thomas
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Dec 22, 2023 |
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Intermission: Explaining My Unscheduled Absence
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 194: "November Night" by Adelaide Crapsey
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Nov 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 193: "To Think of the Life of a Man" by Wendell Berry
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Nov 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 192: "Does every generation", by Chantal House
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 191: "Samhain" by Annie Finch
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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Ep. 190: (The Definition of) Sonder, by John Koenig
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Oct 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 189: "Friendship is what will save us" by David Gate
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Oct 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 188: "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver
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Oct 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 187: "Hope" by Vaclav Havel
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 186: "In The Park" by Gwen Harwood
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 185: "The Truelove" by David Whyte
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Oct 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 184: "Consolation" by Wislawa Szymborska (transl. by Clare Cavanagh)
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Oct 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 183: "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 182: "Tremolo" by Breda Wall Ryan
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Ep. 181: "Barcelona" by Hugo Dewar
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 180: "If You Have Time" by Nanao Sakaki
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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Ep. 179: "France" by Douglas Dunn
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Oct 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 178: "Everything Changes" by Bertolt Brecht
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Oct 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 177: "Softest of Mornings" by Mary Oliver
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 176: "His Stillness" by Sharon Olds
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 175: "As I Began to Love Myself" (Anonymous)
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Oct 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 174: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
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Oct 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 173: "The Work of Happiness", by May Sarton
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 172: "Dreams", by Langston Hughes
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 171: "Night Mail", by WH Auden
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 170: "Success", by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Oct 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 169: "The Laughing Heart", by Charles Bukowski
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Sep 29, 2023 |
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Ep. 168: From "Anniversaries of War", by Yehuda Amichai
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 167: "The Guy in the Glass", by Dale Wimbrow
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 166: "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market", by Pablo Neruda
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 165: "Desiderata", by Max Ehrmann
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Sep 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 164: "Compost Piles", by Wendy Morton
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Sep 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 163: "Blackberry-Picking", by Seamus Heaney
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 162: "Age as Measure", by Patricia Williams
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 161: "If I can stop one heart from breaking", by Emily Dickinson
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 160: "Giving" by Kahlil Gibran
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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Ep. 159: "Wear sunscreen" / "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich
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Sep 15, 2023 |
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Ep. 158: "Happiness" by Priscilla Leonard
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 157: "The Day is Done" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 156: "Thinking" by Walter D. Wintle
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 155: "Eternal Dance" (from "Hi Ren") by Ren
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Sep 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 154: "The Guest House" by Rumi
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Sep 08, 2023 |
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Ep. 153: "To Be of Use" by Marge Piercy
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 152: "The Butterfly Dream" by Zhuangzi
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 151: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 150: "Choose Life" from the film Trainspotting (screenplay: John Hodge; adapted from novel by Irvine Welsh)
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 149: "I wanted" by Roque Dalton (translated by Anne Boyer)
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Sep 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 148: Three Poems on Prayer, from Kaveh Akbar, Matthew McConaughey and Carol Ann Duffy
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 147: Three Poems on Grief and Loss, from Tom French, John O'Donohue and Andy Irvine
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 146: Three Poems on the Healing Power of Nature, from Wendell Berry, Desmond Egan and Francis Harvey
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Aug 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 145: Three Poems on Male Experience, from Pat Boran, Seamus Heaney and Norman MacCaig
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Jul 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 144: Three Poems on Ageing, from Clive James, Gailmarie Pahmeier and Billy Collins
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Jul 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 143: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
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Jun 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 142: "A Portable Paradise", by Roger Robinson
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Jun 29, 2023 |
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Ep. 141: "How Prayer Works" by Kaveh Akbar
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 140: "A Thought" by Matt Goodfellow
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 139: "Questions of Travel" by Elizabeth Bishop
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Jun 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 138: "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan
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Jun 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 137: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 136: "Between Hovers" by Michael Longley
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Jun 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 135: "All Bread" by Margaret Atwood
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 134: "O Captain! My Captain" by Walt Whitman
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Jun 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 133: "The Listeners" by Walter De La Mare
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Ep. 132: "Wonder Woman" by Ada Limón
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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Ep. 131: "I Sit Beside the Fire and Think", by JRR Tolkien
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 130: "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs" by Christian Wiman
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 129: "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" by Bob Dylan
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Jun 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 128: "Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNeice
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Jun 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 127: "Warming-Down" by Aideen Henry
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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Ep. 126: "My Mother’s Body" by Marie Howe
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Jun 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 125: "The Order of Time" by Anaximander
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 124: "Wildflowers" by Mark Roper
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Jun 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 123: "Prayer" by Faisal Mohyuddin
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Jun 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 122: "Gypsy" by Bo Burnham
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 121: "Bani Adam" by Saadi Shirazi
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May 31, 2023 |
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Ep. 120: "Everything is Going to be All Right" by Derek Mahon
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May 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 119: "Everything Falls Away" by Parker J. Palmer
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May 29, 2023 |
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Ep. 118: From "Ghetto" (or "Belongings") by Michael Longley
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May 26, 2023 |
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Ep. 117: "The Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin
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May 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 116: "December at Yase" by Gary Snyder
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May 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 115: "Poem on a Line by Anne Sexton, 'We Are All Writing God's Poem'", by Barbara Crooker
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May 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 114: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn
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May 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 113: "The Habit of Laughter" by Sara Berkeley
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May 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 112: "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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May 18, 2023 |
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Ep. 111: "Touching the Bones" by Tom French
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May 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 110: "Japanese Maple", by Clive James
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May 16, 2023 |
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Ep. 109: "Love’s Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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May 15, 2023 |
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Ep. 108: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now" by AE Housman
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May 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 107: "Thanks, Robert Frost" by David Ray
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May 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 106: "Mysticism for Beginners" by Adam Zagajewsky
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May 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 105: "Vanity" by Kathryn Stripling Byer
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May 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 104: "Blessings" by Francis Harvey
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May 08, 2023 |
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Ep. 103: "The Singers" by Eavan Boland
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May 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 102: "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World" by Jane Hirshfield
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May 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 101: "Anger" by Yusef Komunyakaa
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May 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 100: Why Poems for the Speed of Life?
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May 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 99: "Tent" by Pat Boran
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May 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 98: "Color" by Tina Chang
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Apr 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 97: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 96: "This afternoon, burn down the house" by Ray Bradbury
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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Ep: 95: "On the Death of the Beloved" by John O'Donohue
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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Ep. 94: "A Seeming Stillness" by David Whyte
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Apr 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 93: "On Friendship" by Kahlil Gibran
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 92: "Driving Dad to The Dog Museum" by Gailmarie Pahmeier
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 91: "Neither Now Nor Never" by Kaveh Akbar
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Ep. 90: "I love the dark hours of my being" by Rainer Maria Rilke.
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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Ep. 89: "Something wonderful has happened it is called you" by Emily Critchley
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Apr 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 88: "The Mayo Tao" by Derek Mahon
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 87: "Money" by Philip Larkin
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 86: "Funeral Prayer" by Don Paterson
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Apr 12, 2023 |
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Ep. 85: From "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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Ep. 84: "Detail" by Eamon Grennan
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Apr 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 83: "Houston, 1965" by Loren Broaddus
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Apr 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 82: "The East-West Border" by Jaan Kaplinski
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 81: "In a Restaurant" by Stephen Santus
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Apr 05, 2023 |
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Ep. 80: "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" by Robert Browning
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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Ep. 79: "Hosing Down" by Hubert Moore
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 78: "Hay", by Paul Muldoon
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Mar 31, 2023 |
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Ep. 77: "What the Living Do", by Marie Howe
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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Ep. 76: "Call" by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Ep. 75: "It Aint What You Do It’s What It Does to You", by Simon Armitage
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 74: "What You Mean to Me" by Penny Boxall
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Mar 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 73: "It's Our Dance", by Brendan Cleary
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 72: "Great Plain", by Kevin Powers
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 71: "Because", by James McAuley
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Mar 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 70: "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 69: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón
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Mar 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 68: "The Lost Land" by Eavan Boland
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Mar 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 66: "Antidotes to Fear of Death" by Rebecca Elson
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Ep. 65: "The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog" by Robert Bly
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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Ep. 64: "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Ep. 63: "The Way It Is" by William Stafford
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Mar 10, 2023 |
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Ep. 62: "Bread" by Moya Cannon
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Ep. 61: "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski
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Mar 08, 2023 |
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Ep. 60: "Clearing" by Martha Postlethwaite
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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Ep. 59: "Integrity", by Adrienne Rich
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Mar 06, 2023 |
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Ep. 58: "The Art of Disappearing", by Naomi Shihab Nye
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Mar 03, 2023 |
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Ep. 57: "If—", by Rudyard Kipling
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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Ep. 56: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly
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Mar 01, 2023 |
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Ep. 55: "Things to live for when the world seems hopeless", by Nikita Gill
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Ep. 54: "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney
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Feb 27, 2023 |
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Ep. 53: "When I set out for Lyonnesse" by Thomas Hardy
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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Ep. 52: "A Blessing" by James Wright
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Feb 23, 2023 |
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Ep. 51: "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)" by James Baldwin
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Feb 22, 2023 |
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Ep. 50: "Hideout", by Desmond Egan
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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Ep. 49: "Entirely", by Louis MacNeice
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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Ep. 48: "Mirrors", by IN-Q
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Feb 17, 2023 |
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Ep. 47: "Shadow and Light Source Both", by Rumi
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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PTLWB 46: "Why Pray", by Matthew McConaughey
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Feb 15, 2023 |
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PTLWB 45: "The West Coast of Clare", by Andy Irvine
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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PTLWB 44: "Mirror in February", by Thomas Kinsella
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Feb 13, 2023 |
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PTLWB 43: "Woodland Burial", by Pam Ayres
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Feb 10, 2023 |
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PTLWB 42: "Praise of a Man", by Norman MacCaig
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Feb 09, 2023 |
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PTLWB 41: "Go to the Limits of Your Longing", by Rainer Maria Rilke
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Feb 08, 2023 |
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PTLWB 40: "Up", by Margaret Atwood
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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PTLWB 39: "Snow", by Vladimir Holan
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Feb 06, 2023 |
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PTLWB 38: "The Bell and the Blackbird", by David Whyte
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Feb 03, 2023 |
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PTLWB 37: "Leaving the Empty Room", by Stephen Dunn
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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PTLWB 36: "Prayer", by Carol Ann Duffy
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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PTLWB 35: "You", by Dennis O'Driscoll
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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PTLWB 34: "The Journey", by Mary Oliver
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Jan 30, 2023 |
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PTLWB 33: "A Piper", by Seumas O'Sullivan
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Jan 27, 2023 |
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PTLWB 32: "Do Not Be Ashamed", by Wendell Berry
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Jan 26, 2023 |
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PTLWB 31: "Landmarks", by Breda Wall Ryan
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Jan 25, 2023 |
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PTLWB 30: "The Best Day of My Life", by Tom Odell & Laurie Blundell
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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PTLWB 29: "Spring and All", by William Carlos Williams
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Jan 23, 2023 |
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PTLWB 28: "Forgetfulness", by Billy Collins
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Jan 20, 2023 |
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PTLWB 27: "Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward", by Anne Sexton
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Jan 19, 2023 |
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PTLWB 26: "Weakness", by Alden Nowlan
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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PTLWB 25: "Rain", by Edward Thomas
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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PTLWB 24: "I Went into the Maverick Bar", by Gary Snyder
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Jan 16, 2023 |
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PTLWB 23: "In Broken Images", by Robert Graves
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Jan 13, 2023 |
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PTLWB 22: "spring is like a perhaps hand", by ee cummings
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Jan 12, 2023 |
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PTLWB 21: "The World as Meditation", by Wallace Stevens
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Jan 11, 2023 |
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PTLWB 20: "Toward the Solstice", by Adrienne Rich
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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PTLWB 19: "And Death Shall Have No Dominion", by Dylan Thomas
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Jan 09, 2023 |
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PTLWB 18: "Thirteen", by Kae Tempest
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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PTLWB 17: "Beannacht", by John O'Donohue
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Jan 05, 2023 |
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PTLWB 16: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", by John Keats
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Jan 04, 2023 |
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PTLWB 15: "Piano", by DH Lawrence
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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PTLWB 14: "Postscript", by Seamus Heaney
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Jan 02, 2023 |
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PTLWB 13: "Hope is the thing with feathers", by Emily Dickinson
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Dec 30, 2022 |
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PTLWB 12: "Palm Leaves", by Charles Bukowski
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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PTLWB 11: "Wait", by Galway Kinnell
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Dec 28, 2022 |
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PTLWB 10: "Advent", by Patrick Kavanagh
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Dec 27, 2022 |
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PTLWB 9: "Snow Fairy", by Claude McKay
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Dec 26, 2022 |
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PTLWB 8: "Journey of the Magi", by TS Eliot
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Dec 23, 2022 |
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PTLWB 7: "Sometimes", by David Whyte
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Dec 22, 2022 |
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PTLWB 6: "The People of the Other Village", by Thomas Lux
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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PTLWB 5: "Happiness", by Raymond Carver
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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PTLWB 4: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost
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Dec 19, 2022 |
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PTLWB 3: "Night Drive", by Tom French
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Dec 16, 2022 |
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PTLWB 2: "Snowy Night", by Mary Oliver
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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PTLWB 1: "Harrowing", by Parker J Palmer
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Dec 14, 2022 |