This poem by David Whyte reminds us to be grateful for every day and every version of ourselves that is possible.
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“IT’S SUCH A SLOW JOY,” says poet Jane Hirshfield, about the work of revising a poem. We’ve just left the trailhead for a hike on what she calls the “hem” of Mount Tamalpais.
Jane Hirshfield says environmental concerns began creeping into her poetry as early as her 1988 collection “Of Gravity & Angels,” when she was composing “poems of shared-fate awareness, and poems of the relationship of the biological and human worlds which don’t put human well-being above...
Writer Kim Rosen raises questions about Zen, openness, and the “desperation” of the creative process.
“…and when two people have loved each other see how it is like a scar between their bodies, stronger, darker, and proud…”
In verse called "radiant and passionate" by the New York Times, Jane Hirshfield's four collections of poetry articulate the interconnection of human and natural worlds. Tune in for this reading before an audience at UC Santa Barbara.
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Full lecture title: "A Branch of Yellow Leaves: Buddhism, the World and Poetry"