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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 06—Undertow

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Fresh snowfall at a pier

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 04—Honan Duststorm

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

Bicycle and dust

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil 02—News from the Underground

By Laurie Klein 2 Comments

Heart & Soil News from the Underground

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Poems to Listen By: Heart & Soil—01 What Are Poets For?

By Laurie Klein 4 Comments

Sunrise at the sea

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 09—Eternity [Bonus Episode]

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

Under the Canopy Eternity

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 08—Poetics

By Laurie Klein 9 Comments

trees in swamp

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 07—The Maples of Dachau

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

Poems to Listen By red maple leaves

In the latest Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein shares a poignant poem with a darker understory.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 06—Buddy Story

By Laurie Klein 5 Comments

Poems to Listen By Trees and Waterfall

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 05—Lost and Found

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

pine in sunlight

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 04—Maple Grove

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

Under the Canopy podcast sunglight on redwood

Can a tree seduce? Be flirtatious? Enjoy these poems in Laurie Klein’s latest Poems to Listen By podcast, and you decide.

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Poems to Listen By: Under the Canopy 03—Benedictus

By Laurie Klein 8 Comments

Under the Canopy snowy trees

In her latest Under the Canopy episode, Laurie Klein reflects on the way trees remind us of eternity and mortality, with poetry from Paul Willis and Luci Shaw.

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 02—Motherhood

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Poems to listen by under the canopy

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Poems to Listen By: Sharing the Canopy 01—Under the Black Oaks

By Laurie Klein 10 Comments

Under the Black Oaks

In honor of the holiday season, join Laurie Klein for the first in a delightful new series, Poems to Listen By—Sharing the Canopy: 8 Ways Trees Embody Our Stories. Our holiday episode features Pablo Neruda, Chicken Little, and Stephen Dunn’s “Under the Black Oaks.”

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Friendship Onstage and Off: Walking with the Wind

By Laurie Klein 6 Comments

A sudden interruption and the whole play’s at risk—at least for actress Laurie Klein. The director remains a friend, wise and warm, as the drama unfolds.

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Regional Tour: Booklover Footloose in Wonderland (Yellowstone National Park)

By Laurie Klein 14 Comments

Regional Tour Yellowstone

Laurie Klein takes us on a breathtaking regional (and literary) tour of Yellowstone National Park, complete with geysers, thermophiles and the Morning Glory Pool.

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Regional Tour: Borrowed Time at the Maui Ocean Center

By Laurie Klein 13 Comments

Maui Ocean Center

A trip to Maui Ocean Center’s vast aquarium offers opportunity for Laurie Klein to contemplate how a place can envelop as well as imprint itself on the soul.

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Regional Tour: High Tea at Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park

By Laurie Klein 17 Comments

waterton-glacial-national-park

Take High Tea beside pristine waters and mountains ranging down-lake in receding tiers, azure to palest blue with Laurie Klein at Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park.

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Regional Tour: Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado

By Laurie Klein 14 Comments

Long House at Mesa Verde National Park ColoradoLong House at Mesa Verde National Park Colorado

Laurie Klein’s trip up the Ladder of Death through Mesa Verde National Park culminates in the poetic creation of ancient Puebloan pottery.

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